President Obama plans to sign an executive order stopping federal contractors from punishing workers who talk about their paychecks. It’s about enlisting transparency to narrow the gap between what women and men are paid. But keeping your pay to yourself is deeply rooted in the culture, as Kate Davidson reports.
And, Banco Popular is shifting eastward from Los Angeles and Chicago, according to the newspaper Crain’s Chicago Business. Marketplace’s Dan Weissman has more on prospects for the bank that went from Puerto Rico into neighbhorhoods around the U.S.
Meanwhile, there’s you, in the workplace. You give and give some more, because that’s the giving person you are. And then there’s all those other people who take. Take, Take, Take. Adam Grant is a professior at the Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania who has a book called “Give and Take.”
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