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Why more middle class Americans are defining themselves as working class

Work Life

Grocery store food prices were 1.2% Car insurance is up 20.6% families who are unable to afford the basics of housing, child care, food, transportation, health care and technology. Car insurance is up 20.6% a retail salesperson, increased 2.8% higher in January 2024 than in January 2023, according to the U.S.

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‘We are somewhat invisible’: Why home care work is so hard—and so critical

Work Life

It might come as little surprise that working in retail or fast food ranks as one of the most common jobs in the U.S. Between the low pay and limited benefits, home care agencies have struggled to retain workers, especially as fast food and retail jobs have grown more appealing due to minimum wage increases.

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Lessons on Creating a Business Emergency Plan From Maine-Based Company Better With Buckwheat

Success

He says he talked with one of the company’s board advisers who had gone through a fire disaster at a food company, and he spoke with others who had experienced floods. Their first point of advice was to get the disaster recovery team in as quickly as possible, start cleaning up the facility and worry about insurance policies and money later.

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How Leaders Can Make Their Message More Memorable

Tanveer Naseer

I hear a similar exchange at retail stores, where you tell sales reps your shoe size and a few seconds later, they return to ask again. For example, we buy things because we value their tangible attributes , such as a dishwasher, a type of detergent, or even insurance. I heard the exchange above just now, on a flight to Michigan.

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Paralyzed on the football field, Eric LeGrand still dreams of walking but is flying high as an entrepreneur

Work Life

Other times a football he wonders if he can throw, or a plate of food he must feed to himself. He’d never again eat solid foods, they said. Days later, he ate solid foods at Thanksgiving. He’d also never run a true retail business. His feet propel his 6-foot-2, 250-pound frame forward.

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Two in five people are working extra hours as cost-of-living crisis bites

Workplace Insight

A new poll suggests that the continuing cost-of-living crisis is now affecting a greater proportion of employees, with more people working extra hours, more struggling to buy food or pay their bills, and fewer being able to afford to take sick days, compared to mid-2022.

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3 Ways the Best Workplaces in Texas Turn Company Into Family

Great Place to Work

When the spouse of an employee at San Antonio-headquartered NuStar Energy died in an accident, support from the company didn’t end with flowers, food deliveries and flexible work hours in the weeks that followed. The company’s leaders and employees soon raised nearly $30,000 in scholarship funds for their co-worker’s kids.

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