Business

This week, WFAE's Marshall Terry and WRAL's Paul Specht are fact-checking a claim made by N.C. House Majority Leader Brenden Jones related to the state’s guidelines on hiring minority-owned businesses amid Hurricane Helene cleanup.

With the national unemployment rate at 4.2% — and even lower at 3.7% in North Carolina — economists say the job market is nevertheless a mixed bag for people on the hunt for employment. Companies are adding jobs, but at the same rate as past years.

Tariff collections are up sharply in the last two months. Congressional forecasters say tariffs could help reduce the federal debt, but they'll also lead to higher inflation and slower economic growth.

The county's frustration boils down to this: After being picked in 2016 — and signing a development agreement in 2018 — The Peebles Corporation hasn’t built a single Brooklyn Village apartment.

Salmon farming is big business in Chile, and the U.S. is one of its largest markets. Yet the fish are not native, and fishermen say salmon are damaging ecosystems and an Indigenous way of life.

NPR and the PBS series "Frontline" investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.

U.S. health officials confirmed the salmonella infections were linked to contaminated organic and cage-free brown eggs from August Egg Company. All recalled eggs should be thrown away, the CDC said.

The company said China and other nations are covertly trying to use chatbots to influence opinion around the world. In one case, operatives also used the tools to write internal performance reports.

Federal regulators announced this week that they’re lifting a severe punishment on Wells Fargo related to its fake accounts scandal from nearly a decade ago. WFAE's Marshall Terry and The Ledger's Tony Mecia discuss this, and other local business news, on this week's BizWorthy.

The White House said the action was needed to protect the United States from terrorist attacks and other national security threats, and said the countries lacked screening and vetting capabilities.