- Home
- News
- Features
- Topics
- Labor
- Management
- Opinions/Blogs
- Tools & Resources
Home » Posts tagged with » consumer
U.S. Consumer Spending Continues Upward Trend in March
U.S. self-reported daily consumer spending increased to $89 in March from $83 in February and $80 in January. Upper-income and lower- and middle-income spending has increased modestly since January. Source: Gallup Economy Please subscribe to WWOW’s posts by email: [subscribe2][subscribe2]
HHS Unveils Requirements For Consumer Health Insurance Labels
10/02/2012 Comments Off on HHS Unveils Requirements For Consumer Health Insurance Labels
By SUSAN JAFFE, KHN– This story details of the final regulations for the new health insurance summaries that the federal health law requires plans to give to consumers to help them make informed coverage choices. “For too many Americans today, choosing a health plan means reading through a human resources book usually the size of a small phone book and […]
Continue reading …DOL Website Takes Complaints About Health & Retirement Plans
18/11/2011 Comments Off on DOL Website Takes Complaints About Health & Retirement Plans
If you have questions or complaints about a health plan or retirement plan, the U.S. Department of Labor has launched a new streamlined consumer website designed provides easy access to useful information while also allowing users to submit questions and complaints about health and retirement plans electronically. “Helping retirement and health plan participants find answers […]
Continue reading …Wages Down, Consumers Spend Less, Growth Slows
03/10/2011 Comments Off on Wages Down, Consumers Spend Less, Growth Slows
From Bloomberg News: Take-home pay and wages, adjusted for prices, fell 0.3 percent in August, the third decrease in five months, and personal income dropped for the first time in two years, the Commerce Department reported last week. The declines followed news from the Census Bureau that median household income in 2010 fell to $49,445, the lowest […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill