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Nudge for Change scores major United States-based retailers on their levels of equality, sustainability and worker’s rights and alerts consumers via app.

With all this job growth, the economy should feel like it’s booming. Unfortunately, details in both the establishment and household reports show otherwise.

The short commutes in a community grateful that your started a business are just the beginning of the benefits.

Some are calling it the "Silver Tsunami" – a massive shift in ownership of private companies. That could be very good for the boomers. But it may not be so good for their employees.

For all the concern over automation removing jobs from the workforce, companies like Blueprint are actually helping to ease a labor shortage that has crimped construction of residences and commercial properties across the country.

The companies said that while they’ll offer wireless services separately to customers, behind the scenes they’ll work together on things like customer billing and managing the platform customers use to order devices.

It would give designers more freedom, allowing them to create and test parts and devices with complex shapes that can’t be made easily with any other production method–say, an intricate aluminum lattice or a metal object with internal cavities.

The arrival of Hulu’s live TV service, along with that of YouTube TV, could encourage more traditional pay-TV subscribers to cut the cord, says 7Park Data analyst Christopher Coby.

An employer can pay a woman less than a man for the same work if the man was paid more at his previous job and if the employer had a reasonable policy to justify reliance on past salaries, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

When it came to the unhealthiest part of the meal – alcoholic beverages and desserts – customers tended to order significantly more when they had an overweight server.