Business and Economic News

American Crystal Sugar workers to vote on new contract
Union workers at Moorhead based American Crystal Sugar Company vote Thursday on a five-year contract the company calls a final offer.
Grocery stores: 'The best of America and the worst of America'
In his new book, Michael Ruhlman explores how and why Americans have changed from corner-store customers to insatiable consumers of every edible product at our fingertips.
Why we don't hear about the decline in retail jobs
Mine or steel workers' job losses often take the forefront in discussions of the U.S. economy. But department stores have lost 18 times more workers than coal mining since 2001.
An alert researcher, teamwork helped stem huge cyberattack
Britain's National Cyber Security Center and others are hailing a 22-year-old cybersecurity researcher who discovered a so-called "kill switch" that halted the unprecedented outbreak.