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Do COVID-19 vaccine incentives work?

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 26, 2021
New research suggests that offering people money as an incentive to get vaccinated may actually make some, who were already skeptical, more distrustful.
People march across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal workers on Oct. 25, 2021 in New York City.
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Pandemic puts more rental properties in private equity hands

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 21, 2021
Investment firms might be able to pay more for renovations, but critics say they accelerate evictions.
With landlords dealing with financial stress brought on by COVID, selling properties to private equity firms can be appealing.
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Are people ready to step out in rented clothing again?

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 19, 2021
Rent the Runway prepares for its IPO at a time when the logistics around delivery and consumer demand is still in flux.
Shoppers look through Rent the Runway's West Coast flagship store in San Francisco in 2019. The clothing rental business is aiming for a valuation of up to $1.5 billion.
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2-tiered wage systems test today's labor relations

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 18, 2021
In the 1980s, some companies paid new workers less than current workers. Now, employers are trying that system during a labor shortage.
A striking worker pickets a John Deere facility in Davenport, Iowa. The current labor shortage is making it harder to pay new workers less than those already employed.
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Farm country frets over impact of John Deere strike

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 14, 2021
More than 10,000 workers are on strike after they rejected a deal on wages and benefits.
More than one-third of John Deere’s workforce in the U.S. and Canada are on strike.
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Social Security recipients will get a 5.9% increase, the largest in decades

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 13, 2021
But inflation will eat into the raise.
The hike in Social Security payments for 2022 will help seniors cover rising costs for food, health care and rent.
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Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers threaten to strike

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 13, 2021
The union representing nurses and other health care staff say thousands more Kaiser employees could vote this week to authorize a strike.
Medical workers at Kaiser Permanente French Campus test a patient for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at a drive-thru testing facility in San Francisco, California on March 12, 2020. Thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers are ready to strike over pay and working conditions.
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California law expands protections for workers to speak about harassment or discrimination

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 11, 2021
Might this law inspire similar bans on agreements to silence people in other situations, like defective consumer products cases?
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Airlines looking for a lift from holiday travel

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 8, 2021
United cites a jump in holiday searches as a reason for optimism. But consumers have been booking flights closer to travel time during the pandemic.
Air travel is expected to approach pre-pandemic levels this holiday season.
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The challenges of getting oil companies to decommission California's aging offshore oil rigs

by Caroline Champlin
Oct 7, 2021
While some lawmakers look to stop new drilling, the existing rigs are continuing to operate.
California brown pelicans fly near offshore oil rigs after sunset on July 21, 2009 near Santa Barbara, California. Shutting down California's offshore oil rigs could prove costly.
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