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  • Oct 10, 2017

    Despite some progress, corporate America remains a man’s world

    Despite some progress, corporate America remains a man’s world
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    A new survey from McKinsey and LeanIn.Org finds that women continue to have a steep climb in corporate America, and many companies don't see the scale of the problem.

  • Oct 10, 2017

    Cost of military transgender care in the spotlight

    39-year-old transgender veteran Ashley Register stands outside her Dover, Delaware home.  
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    The future of transgender members of the military remains unclear after President Donald Trump signed a memo barring transgender recruits from serving in the military. The Department of Defense is now reviewing the issue.

  • Oct 10, 2017

    Activist investor aims for a seat on P&G board

    On Monday, General Electric gave a board seat to Ed Garden, co-founder of the $12.7 billion hedge fund Trian Partners. And this morning, when Procter & Gamble holds its yearly shareholder meeting, all eyes will be on another Trian partner, activist investor Nelson Peltz. Trian owns a 1.5 percent stake in the struggling Cincinnati-based consumer […]

  • Oct 9, 2017

    Nobel laureate Richard Thaler is "like the boy pointing out the emperor is wearing no clothes"

    University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler arrives at his office after learning he had been awarded the Nobel prize in economics.
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    Previous Nobel winner Robert Shiller talks about Thaler's intolerance of bad economic research and why psychology is so important.

  • Oct 9, 2017

    The rules on government business travel continue to plague the Trump administration

    A travel scandal has already caused one Trump administration official to step down. The Secretary of Health and Human Services resigned just over a week ago. Now, more reports from Politico on travel by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke have prompted an investigation of his travel as well. Click the audio player above to hear the […]

  • Oct 9, 2017

    Virgin Islands schools set to open as hurricane recovery continues

    The U.S. Virgin Islands remain devastated after two category 5 hurricanes hit within two weeks of each other in September. Many residents are still without shelter, power or internet. But the territory’s roughly 14,000 public school students, who had barely started their school year before Irma hit, will begin returning to their classrooms this week.  […]

  • Oct 9, 2017

    Midwestern farmers are tied to a Gulf dead zone

    Soybeans are harvested near Worthington, Minnesota.
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    Minnesota is trying to limit runoff carried by the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Oct 6, 2017

    How hurricanes could distort September jobs numbers

    Resident Mirian Medina stands on her property about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico.
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    The September jobs report from the Labor Department comes out today, and hurricanes Harvey and Irma are likely to show up in the numbers in different ways. In Texas and Florida, where the hurricanes did significant damage, employees couldn’t get to work, workplaces shut down, job interviews got cancelled. All that could make job-creation numbers […]

  • Oct 5, 2017

    California legislation aims to narrow the gender pay gap

    Protesters demand that woman be paid the same as their male co-workers in March in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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    Some employers say the bill would shame companies without justification.

  • Oct 4, 2017

    Crowdsourcing to help DACA recipients renew their status

    Crowdsourcing to help DACA recipients renew their status
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    MacArthur "genius" grant winner Jose Quinonez of Mission Asset Fund in San Francisco talks about his efforts to help DACA recipients renew their permission to stay in the U.S.