How serious are the threats to US economic growth?

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  How portable benefits can drive US innovation and job growth

  While the primary aim is to help freelancers and gig workers, portable benefits have surprising potential to bolster entrepreneurship and thus the U.S. economy.
  
  The Hill - 5d

• China sets growth target around 5% despite threat from US tariffs

  Beijing outlines fiscal spending plans amid lagging domestic consumption and mounting trade tensions
  
  Financial Times - 21h
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  As consumer delinquencies rise, U.S. economic growth increasingly powered by the wealthy

  Most official data continues to show the U.S. economy is humming along, with unemployment historically low and inflation expectations still relatively stable.
  
  NBC News - Feb. 22
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  China keeps its economic growth target at 'around 5%' for 2025

  China is keeping its economic growth target at “around 5%” for 2025 despite a looming trade war with the United States and other headwinds.
  
  NBC News - 23h
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  Chinese manufacturing returns to growth despite threat of higher Trump tariffs

  Fastest expansion in three months as new orders rise at Chinese factories. China’s manufacturing activity expanded at the fastest pace in three months in February, despite the looming threat that ...
  
  The Guardian - 3d
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  Economic partnership will protect the Ukrainian people and the US taxpayer

  Trump’s bold international leadership aligns interests and benefits all
  
  Financial Times - Feb. 22

• Home price growth has slowed. But high costs, economic worries have some buyers retreating

  High prices and economic uncertainty are factors pulling homebuyers back out of the housing market, experts say.
  
  CNBC - Feb. 20
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  Dow drops 700 points for worst day of 2025 so far on new fears about economic growth

  Stocks sold off on Friday as new U.S. data sparked concern among investors over a slowing economy and sticky inflation, leading them in search of safer assets.
  
  NBC News - Feb. 21

• Bank of Korea slashes rates to lowest since August 2022 on economic worries, cuts growth forecast

  The Bank of Korea cut rates to 2.75% from 3%, in line with expectations from economists polled by Reuters, trimming rates for the third time in four meetings.
  
  CNBC - Feb. 25

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• Freezing health benefit would save UK £1bn a year by 2029, says think-tank

  State spending on incapacity and disability payments has risen sharply in recent years
  
  Financial Times - 2h

• Colleges of further education in England will get less funding than promised

  Reduction to two-thirds of budgeted top-up payments for additional students a sign of looming government squeezes
  
  Financial Times - 5h

• Union deals will give UK employers wriggle room on zero-hours jobs

  Changes to workers’ rights bill would create strong incentive for businesses to enter collective bargaining schemes
  
  Financial Times - 7h

• UK justice secretary to over-rule new sentencing advice over ‘double standards’

  Shabana Mahmood will recommend reversing guidelines that appear to favour offenders from ethnic minorities
  
  Financial Times - 7h

• The reawakening of Germany

  Berlin is moving towards providing economic and security leadership for Europe
  
  Financial Times - 8h

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  At Ukraine’s Trump-Themed Cafe, Patrons Demand a Name Change

  At a pizza and coffee joint in Kyiv named for the U.S. president, patrons are having second thoughts about its moniker after President Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine.
  
  The New York Times - 24m
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  Protests turn violent as Greece's government battles censure motion over deadly train crash

  Protesters have launched gasoline bombs and fireworks in clashes with police outside Greece's parliament
  
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• As Israel cuts off food and supplies to Gaza, aid groups say they are scrambling

  Three days into Israel's Gaza aid freeze, one aid group says a resumption is imperative: "With humanitarian needs sky high, more aid access is required, not less."
  
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  Senate Democrats condemn Russia over Ukraine war and dare Republicans to object – live

  Democrats introduce resolutions on Senate floor, as Trump veterans affairs chief defends plans to cut 80,000 staff. Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau will speak today, Reuters reports, citing a ...
  
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