Britain Looks to Address Inequality With Executive Pay Measures

by | Aug 29, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Boards of Directors, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Executive Compensation, Finance, Great Britain, Labor and Jobs, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Wages and Salaries, Working Capital

By AMIE TSANG August 29, 2017 LONDON — Worried by a long-term rise in inequality, Britain announced on Tuesday a series of measures aimed at increasing transparency over executive compensation, hoping to ramp up pressure on companies that offer lavish...

Home Health Care: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?

by | Aug 29, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Home Health Care, Labor and Jobs, Medicaid, Nursing and Nurses, Vocational Training, Wages and Salaries, Working Capital

By EDUARDO PORTER August 29, 2017 Do you know who is going to care for you when you are old and frail? By current standards, it’s likely to be a middle-aged immigrant woman, with maybe a high school education and little if any training, making $20,000...

Bankers and Economists Fear a Spate of Threats to Global Growth

by | Aug 27, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Banking and Financial Institutions, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Federal Reserve System, Finance, Income Inequality, International Trade and World Market, Labor and Jobs, Protectionism (Trade), United States Economy, Working Capital, Yellen, Janet L

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM August 27, 2017 GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — In the decade since the financial crisis, economic policy makers, professors and protesters have gathered here every August to argue about the best ways to return to faster...

Administration Scraps Local-Hiring Plan for Public Works

by | Aug 24, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Building (Construction), Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Department of Transportation, Economics, Finance, Hiring and Promotion, Infrastructure (Public Works), Labor and Jobs, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Working Capital

By TIFFANY HSU August 24, 2017 The Trump administration is abandoning another Obama-era regulatory initiative, killing a plan to allow cities to set aside work for local residents on federally funded public works projects. The provision, proposed in 2015,...

Economic Scene: Labor Wants to Make Nafta Its Friend. Here’s the Problem.

by | Aug 22, 2017 | American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Factories and Manufacturing, Finance, International Trade and World Market, Labor and Jobs, Mexico, North American Free Trade Agreement, Productivity, Trump, Donald J, Wages and Salaries, Working Capital

August 22, 2017 Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE Can Nafta be re-engineered to raise workers’ wages? Organized labor thinks so. As the United States sets out to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada, union officials are pinning...

A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M.

by | Aug 17, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Commuting, Economics, Finance, James, Sheila, Labor and Jobs, San Francisco Bay Area (Calif), Transit Systems, Urban Areas, Working Capital

A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M. By CONOR DOUGHERTY and ANDREW BURTON August 17, 2017 Sheila James, a federal employee who works in public health, on her way to work in San Francisco, a commute that takes three hours....