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Inflation Complicates Biden’s Deliberations on Student Loan Forgiveness
WASHINGTON — The soaring cost of food, gasoline and other staples is further complicating a fraught debate among President Biden and his closest ...
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How U.S. Soccer and Its Players Solved the Equal Pay Puzzle
The new collective bargaining agreements approved this week by the United States Soccer Federation and its men’s and women’s national teams will ...
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What Makes a Good Job Good?
The United States is producing a lot of jobs, but how many are “good” jobs? That’s hard to know because of a lack of data and because there’s no ...
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Biden to Include Minimum Tax on Billionaires in Budget Proposal
WASHINGTON — The White House will ask Congress on Monday to pass a new minimum tax on billionaires as part of a budget proposal intended to ...
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Could Wages and Prices Spiral Upward in America?
Amazon, Bank of America and Chipotle are among a spate of companies raising wages this year as they compete for workers in a labor market with ...
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What’s Dismaying Economists the Most About the New Inflation Figures
After Thursday’s report that consumer prices rose over the past year by the most since 1982, the Federal Reserve is under pressure to squelch ...
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Documentary Critical of Disney, From the Disney Family
Three years ago, Abigail E. Disney began to publicly excoriate the Walt Disney Company for its “obscene” pay inequality, with Robert A. Iger, who ...
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University of Michigan Will Pay $490 Million to Settle Abuse Cases
The University of Michigan said Wednesday that it had agreed to pay $490 million to more than 1,000 people who had accused a doctor who worked ...
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China’s Economy Slowed Late Last Year on Real Estate Troubles
BEIJING — Construction and property sales have slumped. Small businesses have shut because of rising costs and weak sales. Debt-laden local ...
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Only 17% of workers say their pay has kept pace with inflation.
Wages are rising at their fastest pace in years, but prices are rising even faster. Americans have noticed. Only 17 percent of workers say they ...
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