Kenya’s Key Export Used to Be Coffee. Now It’s Cheap Labor.

There’s big money in sending poor workers abroad. Here’s how the economics work.

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Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.

President William Ruto’s government acts as an arm of an industry whose leaders compare women to dogs and blame them for their own abuse, a Times investigation found.

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A BlackRock-Backed Roofing Conglomerate Goes Bust

Investment firms are buying and bundling contractors, leaving some workers and customers worse off.

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Trump Wants to Revive Shipping. He Will Need More Mariners.

Few American are becoming mariners today, but demand could soon rise because President Trump and a bipartisan group of legislators in Congress want to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry.

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Zohran Mamdani and the Revenge of the Struggling Yuppie

When the city becomes a “luxury product,” even the comfortable start to rebel.

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Trump’s Tariffs Scar Canadian City Where Cars Have Been Made for Decades

An automaker’s decision to shift Canadian jobs to the United States has left workers in Brampton, Ontario, feeling betrayed and angry.

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Cuomo Blasts Mamdani for His Rent-Stabilized Unit. But He Had One, Too.

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo lived in what he once described as “a dump, just one long hallway.”

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‘No Idea How Long People Can Hold Out’: Federal Workers Feel Brunt of Shutdown

As more than one million government employees go without pay, many are turning to side jobs and food banks to make ends meet.

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Trump to Use $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops

It is not clear how far the gift will go toward covering the salaries of the nation’s 1.3 million troops.

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Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On

A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.

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