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Lawsuit settlement upends decades-long real estate policies that helped inflate agent commissions
A powerful real estate trade group has agreed to do away with policies that for decades helped set agent commissions, moving ...
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A bumpy ride: Why the bike shop boom from early in the pandemic has taken a downhill turn
Like other bike stores, the pandemic spurred a frenzy of bike buying at University Bicycles. Emerson recalls selling 107 ...
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Corporations could use their massive resources to be champions of racial equity but often lack the courage
Other corporations often consider as charity some business decisions that can still generate a profit for them, such as banks ...
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Poorest Americans: State Medicaid offices target homes of dead people to recoup health care costs
Rather, it was part of a routine process the federal government requires of every state: to recover money from the assets of ...
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The Underground: How a network of people came together to help others get abortions after Roe
That also includes caring for people after abortions. One April morning, Luna assembled aftercare kits on the couch, pink-and ...
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UNICEF sees fewer female circumcisions globally but decline rate too slow in fast-growing populations
The percentage of women and girls who experience female genital mutilation is declining, UNICEF said, but it warned that ...
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Changes to noncompete clauses and overtime pay for salaried workers come as rebuke of corporate greed
In one move, the Federal Trade Commission voted to ban noncompete agreements, which bar millions of workers from leaving ...
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Life in a ghost town: Why people stay in their homes long after the local economy has collapsed
Its collapse was devastating to people living in the neighborhood, Simonetta told me. As mill after mill shuttered in the ...
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Why privacy advocates care that sensors can detect when workers sweat and predict their overheating
At the Tennessee cleanup site, the workers wearing heat stress monitors made by Atlanta company SlateSafety are employed by ...
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Before backyard barbecues: The history of Labor Day on the 130th anniversary of the holiday
Fashion experts say it likely goes back to the Gilded Age — the same period in the late 1800s that spawned Labor Day. The ...
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Data shows that Hispanic women contributed as much to national GDP as Florida’s $1.3 trillion economy
The $1.3 trillion economic contribution by Latinas is about as much as the GDP of Florida, and only surpassed by California, ...
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The debate over pennies: Why Americans leave a huge chunk of change at airport security checkpoints
Each year, the TSA provides a detailed report to Congress showing how much money is left behind at checkpoints. A decreasing ...