NEW YORK — The rent has come due for America’s small businesses and at a very inopportune time. Landlords were lenient about rent payments during the first two years of the pandemic. Now, many are asking for back rent, and some are raising the current rent as well. Meanwhile, most of the ...

DETROIT — One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on Detroit’s east side is the brick, steel and concrete skeleton of the long-vacant Packard plant that looms over the neighborhood. Built in the early 1900s and still churning out high-end ...

A recent study by The Empire Center shows that New York still lags behind most of the nation in terms of recovering jobs lost at the start of the pandemic. Last week, the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank reviewed the most recent state and federal seasonally adjusted employment data. It ...

A four-day workweek sounds appealing to workers. Possibly alarming to employers. A bill introduced in the California legislature earlier this year proposed a regular pay rate for 32 hours of work per week, with overtime kicking in after that. The measure stalled in committee for a lack of ...

FALCONER — LandPro Equipment, a John Deere dealer with 20 locations across New York, Pennsylvania and one store in Ohio, has named Thomas Sutter of Pittsford as president and chief executive officer as of July 1. Sutter has been acting as LandPro’s vice president of sales since 2019. ...

Cummins Inc. is partnering with a Texas company to optimize Cummins’ natural gas engines for use in the Hyliion Hypertruck ERX. The engines would be used in Class 8 trucks, which have a gross vehicle weight rating exceeding 33,000 pounds and include tractor-trailers, some single-unit dump ...