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American Office Workers Are Living Even Farther From Employers Now

March 4, 2024|Comments Off on American Office Workers Are Living Even Farther From Employers Now

A new study shows that white-collar employees who can work remotely now live roughly twice as far from their offices as they did prepandemic. ​Read More Commuting, Telecommuting, Labor and Jobs, Workplace Environment, Coronavirus Return to [+]

Paid Family Caregivers in Indiana Face Steep Cutbacks

March 4, 2024|Comments Off on Paid Family Caregivers in Indiana Face Steep Cutbacks

Now that federal pandemic-era funds are shrinking, states like Indiana are ending or curtailing programs that finance home care by relatives of seriously ill children and adults. ​Read More Health Insurance and Managed Care, Medicaid, States [+]

Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules

March 4, 2024|Comments Off on Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules

For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make major shifts to their products and businesses. ​Read More Computers and the Internet, Social Media, Search [+]

Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant

March 3, 2024|Comments Off on Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant

A looming election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga could be pivotal in the United Automobile Workers’ effort to organize the entire industry. ​Read More Automobiles, Labor and Jobs, Organized Labor, Chattanooga (Tenn), Volkswagen AG, United [+]

Activist Investors Raise Bid for Macy’s

March 3, 2024|Comments Off on Activist Investors Raise Bid for Macy’s

The new offer values the department store chain at $6.6 billion. Macy’s, which just announced a strategy to turn around its business, said it would “carefully review” the proposal. ​Read More Macy's Inc, Shareholder Rights and [+]

Judge Rules Against Corporate Transparency Act Disclosure Provision

March 3, 2024|Comments Off on Judge Rules Against Corporate Transparency Act Disclosure Provision

An Alabama judge barred the government from collecting certain company ownership data to help the Treasury Department identify money launderers, and called the effort a case of congressional overreach. ​Read More Decisions and Verdicts, Money Laundering, [+]

Economy

Bharat Ramamurti, a Senior Biden Aide Who Helped Shape Economic Agenda, Is Leaving

By |September 13, 2023|Categories: Economy|

Bharat Ramamurti supported the president’s competition agenda and pushed the administration to do more for [+]

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Wrestling With Inequality, Some Conservatives Redraw Economic Blueprint

By |September 7, 2023|Categories: Economy|

A growing number of Republican politicians and theorists are challenging party orthodoxy on pocketbook issues, [+]

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