Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren say corporate America has put profits before workers by shifting jobs to other countries. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
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Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez speaks at a July rally for independent contractors in Sacramento, Calif. The measure that passed Tuesday in the state Senate requires companies such as Lyft and Uber to turn many contract workers into employees. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
In the early 1600s, there was only one stock and it didn't take long before a man named Isaac Le Maire tried to manipulate the price. NPR hide caption
Yuzhu Yang (left) trains Lori Cochran at the Fuyao Glass America factory in Dayton, Ohio, in the documentary American Factory. Danni Wang/Netflix hide caption
Attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have launched a probe into Facebook and its market dominance. Elise Amendola/AP hide caption
The manufacturing sector has seen a slowdown amid the continuing U.S. trade war with China. Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption
The mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guarantee about half of all home loans in the U.S. J. David Ake/AP hide caption
Ty Cordingly and his dad at a local Gillette diner. He's seen coworkers leave the state for jobs and thinks Wyoming relies too much on the energy industry. Cooper McKim/Wyoming Public Media hide caption
'It's The Stone Age Of Fossil Fuels': Coal Bankruptcy Tests Wyoming Town
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'It's The Stone Age Of Fossil Fuels': Coal Bankruptcy Tests Wyoming Town
Gil Rodriguez constructs a door at the Howard McCray's commercial refrigeration manufacturing facility in Philadelphia last October. Manufacturing activity in the U.S. shrank last month for the first time in three years. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, shown in 2014, says we're witnessing a period of "secular stagnation." Mandel Ngan /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Karmi Mattson, the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank's manager of public programs, says she and her colleagues are at the state fair to teach Minnesotans about what the Fed does. Mark Zdechlik/MPR News hide caption
Designer Isaac Mizrahi (left) embraces Robert D'Loren, CEO of Xcel Brands, which once manufactured 70% of its clothes in China. Today that's down to about 20%. The company now manufacturers in a variety of countries, including Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka. Brendan McDermid/Reuters hide caption