Economy & Working

Host Connor Cyrus talks with a Vermont Legal Aid project director who is helping people navigate the end of the pandemic-era rental assistance program.

A tech company announced last August it would hire 250 people to staff an office in Waterbury. But in recent months, it quietly canceled those plans.The development comes even though the company, MTX Group, was in line to receive the largest-ever award from a controversial state economic incentive program.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by another 0.75 percentage points today, as it tries to control runaway prices. The central bank also signaled that additional rate hikes are likely.

Student journalists with the Community News Service—a UVM project connecting students with professional editors—interviewed Vermont journalists about the news industry.

Two firms that operate McDonald’s and Dunkin’ restaurants in Vermont have been fined after the U.S. Department of Labor found that nearly 200 teenage employees worked longer hours than allowed under federal law.

A ski resort conglomerate based in Utah is in line to buy Jay Peak Resort for $76 million after submitting the highest bid in an auction Wednesday. The sale to Pacific Group Resorts, Inc. (PGRI) is pending approval by a federal judge in Florida.

Four former employees of a Colchester software firm say they were fired earlier this year after creating a spreadsheet where workers could voluntarily share their salary information. The group filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board against their former employer, Vermont Information Processing, on Aug. 10.

A shipping container holding lithium batteries near the South Burlington headquarters of electric aviation startup Beta Technologies caught fire last week. No one was injured and no other property was damaged in the blaze, according to the company.

The UMaine system plans to offer residency waivers as soon as this fall.

Here's what we learned from a hectic spate of financial report cards shared by top U.S. retailers.