Amazon is seeking to hire 75,000 people in a tight job market and is offering bonuses to attract workers, including $100 for new hires who are vaccinated for COVID-19.

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Social issues like public health and access to education can only be addressed if members of diverse sectors of the community come together, speakers at a forum of women business and community leaders said Wednesday. That was the central message of United Way of Central Maryland’s first Women’s Leadership Council Forum, which focused on ways to make progress in such areas as financial stability and homelessness. The event in Baltimore brought together about 400 attendees on the 15th anniversary of the Women’s Leadership Council’s local chapter, made up of a group of women philanthropists and advocates.

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The economy is still rebounding from the 2008 lows. Those who survived, survived on cash reserves, thinner margins and complete reinvention. Sales and market share are still nowhere near those highs and probably won’t rebound for years.

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Wait a minute! That was way too easy. I refer to imminent passage of a House of Delegates budget. Not a murmur of dissent from the second floor currently occupied by a Republican.

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One measure of how heated the environmental battle has become over coffee giant Keurig Green Mountain’s $5 billion-a-year plastic pods is how often the company’s opponents use galactic comparisons.

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David Sutton is looking for the worst possible news about Uber Technologies. An accident in San Francisco, an assault in Boston: Such bad tidings for Uber are ammunition for Sutton, a 48-year-old Bethesda publicist.

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Target Corp. said Tuesday that it is laying off 1,700 workers and eliminating another 1,400 unfilled positions as part of a restructuring aimed at saving $2 billion over the next two years.

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The company founded by local fitness entrepreneurs Victor and Lynne Brick is looking to expand again.

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From the United States to Asia to Europe, a global economy that many had feared was faltering appears poised for a resurgence on the strength of cheap oil and falling interest rates.

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Are we about to see a step toward right-sizing of prisons?

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