• How a Trump order could help Social Security and HSAs work together

    How a Trump order could help Social Security and HSAs work together

    Nov 21, 2019 04:10 PM EDT

    ... workers also claiming Social Security benefits was modest. Today, however, roughly a third of people in their late 60s are still in the workforce. This shift is attributed to the great recession of 2008, which changed the retirement prospects for millions. The growth of non-physical “knowledge” jobs has also ...

  • Melinda Gates on her foundation's work and the need to 'lift up women' worldwide

    Melinda Gates on her foundation's work and the need to 'lift up women' worldwide

    May 06, 2019 10:25 PM EDT

    ... t name President Bush or former President Obama either. So what I look for are the places where I can move issues forward. And I work with people who are like-minded. Luckily, Congress has held up the foreign aid budget because they know it creates a peaceful and prosperous ...

  • Citizenship shift leaves Dominican-Haitians stateless

    Citizenship shift leaves Dominican-Haitians stateless

    Apr 06, 2019 09:34 PM EDT

    ... no way to earn a living. In fact, he says many pay bribes to guards to illegally re-enter the Dominican Republic in search of work. Willy Pierre: They do domestic work in the house or in the garden. Many have families here who are counting on them. Ivette Feliciano ...

  • Can new medications shift the battle against drug-resistant TB?

    Can new medications shift the battle against drug-resistant TB?

    Mar 26, 2019 08:53 PM EDT

    ... to practice from a point of understanding what it is to be sick,” she said. “Honestly, it makes me a better doctor.” Bekker returned to work as well, reclaiming her place in the surgical theater after a year of painful setbacks. “It was such a privilege,” she beamed as she ...

  • AP fact check: Trump's shift on a concrete border wall

    AP fact check: Trump's shift on a concrete border wall

    Jan 28, 2019 03:12 PM EDT

    ... would give up its nuclear weapons and the means to produce more. At the Trump-Kim summit last June in Singapore, the leaders agreed to "work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." Their joint statement did not define that term or commit the North to any particular action. The ...

  • Shutdown ongoing, State Department sends diplomats back to work with pay

    Shutdown ongoing, State Department sends diplomats back to work with pay

    Jan 17, 2019 07:48 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — The State Department on Thursday instructed all U.S. diplomats in Washington and elsewhere to return to work next week with pay, saying it had found money for their salaries at least temporarily despite the ongoing government shutdown. In a notice to staff posted online and sent to employees ...

  • Health officials work to contain Ebola outbreak in Congo

    Health officials work to contain Ebola outbreak in Congo

    Oct 20, 2018 08:36 PM EDT

    ... Congolese and international panel of experts approved the use of the new drugs before they ordinarily would. The W.H.O. Call this a paradigm shift. WILLIAM FISCHER: On one hand, you are incredibly nervous because not many people were given these drugs before and not many people have received ...

  • Starbucks, other California companies must pay employees for off-the-clock work, court says

    Starbucks, other California companies must pay employees for off-the-clock work, court says

    Jul 26, 2018 09:12 PM EDT

    Lazarski said he expects the ruling to open the door to additional lawsuits by workers in similar situations as Troester. But he also expects lawsuits that "test the boundary of what this case says" to determine how much time spent doing work off the clock is enough to get paid ...

  • Memphis midwives work to address racial disparities in care

    Memphis midwives work to address racial disparities in care

    May 20, 2018 08:17 PM EDT

    ... of their patients are on Medicaid. For some, simply getting to a doctor’s appointment can be a challenge. JODILYN OWEN: If you imagine a woman who is working shift work and has no control over her schedule; she doesn’t have a car so she’s bound by a

  • Medicaid work mandate will create uncertainty in some states

    Medicaid work mandate will create uncertainty in some states

    Jan 14, 2018 04:06 PM EDT

    ... assistance. Penister's status is unclear, because Wisconsin's proposed changes would exempt anyone diagnosed with a mental illness or who is mentally unable to work. Republicans say work and other requirements will return Medicaid to its original intent — to act as a stopgap until people can find work. They ...