Rep. Shaun Scott, D-43. A newly proposed payroll tax would add new costs for large businesses in Washington state. But Rep. Shaun Scott, a Seattle Democrat sponsoring the bill, argues it would protect ...

Private-sector employers in the U.S. cut 32,000 jobs in November, payroll firm ADP said Wednesday, a surprise drop that could firm up expectations of an interest rate cut next week. Forecasts had ...

OLYMPIA – With about a month to go before the 2026 legislative session, progressive lawmakers in Olympia rolled out a new revenue proposal Tuesday that targets Washington’s largest employers with a 5% ...

Washington state Democratic lawmakers are mulling plans for new taxes to help the state resolve a persistent budget shortfall. On Dec. 2, first-term state Rep. Shaun Scott of Seattle held a news ...

SEATTLE — A new state bill, modeled after a payroll tax in Seattle, is set to be introduced in Olympia and aims to collect more than $2 billion a year from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. State Rep ...

Private-sector job creation bounced back in October, according to a snapshot of the labor market that has become more closely watched in the absence of official federal jobs data. Payroll processing ...

The New York Mets had MLB's largest 2025 payroll on opening day, according to MLB's present-day calculations obtained by USA TODAY Sports. The Los Angeles Dodgers, thanks largely to Shohei Ohtani's ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. For Mother Jones, in a ...

A cybercrime gang tracked as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees in the United States to hijack salary payments in "pirate payroll" attacks since March 2025. Microsoft Threat ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy likely created 911,000 fewer jobs in the 12 months through March than previously estimated, the government said on Tuesday, suggesting that job growth ...

The count of payroll jobs is likely to be 911,000 lower than previously thought after revisions are made, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. The agency, which has been under fire from ...