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Biden wants to bring the economy from relief to recovery. A labor shortage may signal trouble for those plans.
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Patti Eisenbraun had been anxiously waiting for the pandemic to subside so the dining room and patio at the Brown Iron Brewhouse would be bustling once again.
Yet the lights were off, and her business was closed here Monday -- not for a lack of thirsty customers, but for a lack of employees. "We went from 92 hours to 55 hours a week," said Eisenbraun, who opened the brewery and restaurant in 2015 with her husband, after a decade of planning. "It's a tough business model right now to be closed during those hours."![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250215004209.jpg)
The morning after the mass resignation of prosecutors sparked a crisis inside the Trump Justice Department, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove led a meeting with the Justice Department’s public integrity section. His message: they had to choose one career lawyer to file a dismissal of the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to three people briefed on the meeting.
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Seventh prosecutor in Eric Adams case resigns and calls out Trump’s former lawyer in scathing letter
A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering letter that accused top leaders at the Justice Department of looking for a “fool” to dismiss the criminal charges.