The optimistic presentation of the city council’s latest Edinburgh by Numbers report reflected higher-than-average pay (median hourly rate £17.70), halved unemployment (down from 6.2 per cent in 2014 to 2.6 per cent last year) and 81.2 percent of 16 to 64-year-olds in a job, half of which are highly-skilled. It’s undeniably positive. The front page reminded me of an edition we produced at the end of June 2007 to mark what we declared was “Good News Day” because there was so much to celebrate....
Attorney General Josh Stein announced a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation to review and resolve consumer complaints against airlines and ticket agents and identify violations of federal aviation consumer protections.
With another blistering summer on the way, industry groups and government officials are calling on people to check their air conditioners now to make sure they work properly before the heat wave hits.
The Federal Trade Commission's vote on Tuesday to ban noncompete agreements
The department announced the formation of the Airline Passenger Protection Partnership on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, during a ceremony at Denver International Airport (DEN). Partnership Opens Federal Data Books for States Investigating Airlines Under the new cooperative, the 18 states joining the partnership will get additional resources to investigate allegations of airline and […]
As lawmakers debate work requirements in Medicaid expansion bills, Walker faces a Catch-22: she first needs health insurance to get healthy enough to be able to return to work.
Soil bacteria help regulate the cycling of carbon and nutrients on Earth. Over time, these bacteria have evolved strategies that determine where they live, what they do, and how they deal with a changing environment. However, microbiologists do not fully understand how bacteria's genes relate to their life strategies.
The federal government and a consumer rights advocate squared off in court Wednesday over whether regulators misled passengers by encouraging travel credit rather than refunds at the onset of the pandemic. In the early months of COVID-19's spread, airlines cancelled hundreds of thousands of flights and offered company vouchers to customers instead of refunds. The Canadian Transportation Agency issued a statement on vouchers in March 2020 that said flight credit constituted a “reasonable...
After a couple of years of uncertainty, there's pent-up demand for mergers, stock and bond sales and other complex transactions.
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its
Oracle chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its
Oracle chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its