• Presidential campaigns likely to shift focus to small business owners

    Presidential campaigns likely to shift focus to small business owners

    Jul 20, 2016 04:56 PM EDT

    ... is also concerned about issues like regulation - a topic the candidate's son, Donald Trump Jr., mentioned briefly in his speech Tuesday. "Why should we work our butts off as small business people when we're going to have tons of regulations dumped on us? It wears on us after ...

  • Surgeons’ late-night work doesn’t cause patients harm, study says

    Surgeons’ late-night work doesn’t cause patients harm, study says

    Aug 27, 2015 01:39 PM EDT

    Patients receiving common operations in the daytime fared no worse in the short-term if their attending physician worked a hospital graveyard shift the night before than patients whose doctor did not, according to a new study examining the effects of sleep deprivation on surgeons. Patients whose physicians worked from ...

  • Is right-to-work the kiss of death for labor unions?

    Is right-to-work the kiss of death for labor unions?

    Mar 09, 2015 09:53 PM EDT

    ... union members. Unions, by law, are to represent all the workers at a plant whether they voted to join it or not.” The “right-to-work” bill, or “freedom-to-work” legislation, removes the fee that non-union members had to pay to unions representing their work place. Without the ...

  • Ebola efforts shift from keeping up with new cases to eliminating the epidemic

    Ebola efforts shift from keeping up with new cases to eliminating the epidemic

    Feb 12, 2015 12:56 AM EDT

    ... business, science and technology has transformed the effectiveness of this response and frankly has transformed a lot of how America projects its development and humanitarian work around the world. JEFFREY BROWN: Well, so for this next phase, what kind of presence will still be there?  What kind of infrastructure will ...

  • Free health clinics shift gears as their patients qualify for insurance

    Free health clinics shift gears as their patients qualify for insurance

    Aug 07, 2014 08:51 PM EDT

    ... keep coming to the clinic. In fact, eight of the nine non-profit free clinics in West Virginia this year began participating in Medicaid. The shift - which also occurred to a lesser degree in Ohio and Illinois, among other states - is being closely watched nationwide and reflects how facilities are ...

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    Why not give money instead of a gift? Evidence from the world of work

    Dec 25, 2013 03:10 PM EDT

    ... Wednesday, Thursday. And then they have a few days off. And this company gives them a bonus on Monday, on the first day of the shift, if they perform above a certain level -- kind of getting back into the workweek. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, there's no bonuses, but ...

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    Rural Colorado residents vote to secede as metro areas shift more liberal

    Nov 11, 2013 06:05 PM EDT

    ... including Weld County, where elected officials first raised the question. Akron resident Charles Johnson, 69, said there were many unanswered questions about how secession would work, like what the state would be called, where the capitol would be and how schools would be funded. He also didn't like the ...

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    Nearly 6 million young Americans don't work or go to school

    Oct 21, 2013 01:41 PM EDT

    Job seekers roam a job fair in Manhattan last December.Getty Images WASHINGTON -- Almost 6 million young people are neither in school nor working, according to a study released Monday. That's almost 15 percent of those aged 16 to 24 who have neither desk nor job, according to The Opportunity Nation coalition, which wrote the...

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    Reinventing Old Age: The Good We Do When We Work Forever

    Jun 12, 2013 03:58 PM EDT

    // Paul Solman's piece exploring the contributions of older workers airs on The PBS NewsHour Wednesday. We've been reporting on America's aging workforce on the NewsHour over the past several months, covering the factory where the average age is 74, the graying of academia, the senior entrepreneurship boom and long-term unemployment and age discrimination. Wednesday...

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    More Women As Family Breadwinners Reflects 'Values Shift' in the U.S.

    May 29, 2013 10:16 PM EDT

    More Women As Family Breadwinners Reflects 'Values Shift' in the U.S.