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Two very distinct legal processes are at issue in the Michael Oher case.
Reuther was both ambitious and pragmatic, scoring many victories for autoworkers.
An expert in disaster law explains the steps for securing aid, what to do if everything is lost and the deadlines to watch.
The drug pricing reform may drastically lower prices for some of the most critical life-saving drugs in the long run. But numerous obstacles stand in the way.
Policies that foster diversity, equity and inclusion have been shown to have many positive operational impacts − including leading to more worker engagement.
When people taking part in 22 pilot programs across the US got free fruits and vegetables, their health improved.
Losing power also has real consequences for people’s businesses, livelihoods and potentially their health and safety.
Many of the reasons for strikes now – low compensation, technological change, job insecurity and safety concerns – mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.
Executives and other high-level inside traders at US companies with global sales earned about three times as much in a month as the average investor, a new study found.
Tipping seems to be more coercive and less tied to service quality these days.
Taxing consumption that contributes to climate change hits the poor the hardest, while overlooking the huge profits tied to greenhouse gas emissions.
With commercial space tourism on the rise and NASA planning to return to the Moon, you might think the US space economy is booming – but the data paint a more complex picture.
With more than 2 million migrant workers finding food processing jobs in rural America, their struggle to find adequate health care remains elusive.
Two economists calculated that the Paycheck Protection Program saved more than 450,000 nonprofit jobs in the first six months after the pandemic was declared.
Wildfires on Maui are a crippling blow to the island’s tourism industry, which generates half of its jobs. But New Orleans and Kauai show that comebacks are possible.
An expert on Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria explains why it’s hard for the US to deliver disaster aid in places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Post-pandemic pressures are compounding stresses cities were already facing, leading to the hollowing out of some American cities.
The rating agency demoted the US government’s creditworthiness to AA+, its second-highest ranking, on Aug. 1, 2023.
Everything apps offer a wide range of features, combining social media with personal finances. But creating the perfect everything app is no easy task.
The law changed older adults’ caregiving behavior because their children became more able to take paid time off work to care for their own newborns.
A strike would shake up the auto industry, even though both the union’s ranks and the share of the US automotive market controlled by GM, Ford and Stellantis have been shrinking for decades.
Traditional businesses operate with an established solution to a known problem. Startups focus on a product or service no one else provides.
A new EU law would require thousands of multinational companies, including many based in the US, to look for signs of human rights abuses in their supply chains.
A nationally representative survey found that the share of nonprofits aware of their right to support or oppose legislation has fallen by more than half in the past 20 years.