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Employers: FY 2024 Cap H-1B Registration Period Is Fast Approaching

This is an important time of the year for employers wishing to sponsor a candidate for a cap H-1B visa in Fiscal Year 2024.

Scientists propose converting abandoned mines into gravity batteries

Called Underground Gravity Energy Storage, the new technique proposes an effective long-term energy storage solution utilizing now-defunct mines.

7 Benefits You Should Offer Your Employees in 2023

Here are some of the perks your workers might expect to receive this year and beyond.

Europe’s snowless ski resorts preview winter in a warming world

Within the next seven to 17 years, skiing will become impossible “in the medium-altitude mountains, and the snow cover will inexorably decrease in the highest parts of the mountain ranges,” said Magali Reghezza-Zitt, a French geographer.

What’s Ahead for the U.S. Housing Market?

After a year of rising mortgage rates and shortages in both supply and demand, the best option for prospective homebuyers and homeowners is to bide their time, says Wharton’s Susan Wachter.

What is a richcession? Term coined by reporter hints at new type of recession in 2023.

But this time, any downturn in the economy could really be different.

More Orthopedic Physicians Sell Out to Private Equity Firms, Raising Alarms About Costs and Quality

Orthopedic surgeons, long seen as fiercely independent, are rapidly catching up with other specialist physicians, such as dermatologists and ophthalmologists, in selling control of their practices to private equity investment firms.

Millions of workers are subject to noncompete agreements. Noncompetes could soon be banned

The Federal Trade Commission took an a bold move on Thursday aimed at shifting the balance of power from companies to workers.

Commerce launches $100 million Capital Readiness Program for underserved entrepreneurs

The program will provide funding to incubators, accelerators and other eligible organizations to assist and train minority and other underserved entrepreneurs seeking resources, tools, and technical assistance to start or scale their businesses in high-growth industries such as healthcare, climate resilient technology, asset management, infrastructure, and more.

What Is a 15-Minute City?

The buzzword recently popularized by urbanists describes an urban form that dominated cities prior to the rise of autocentric planning.