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The health insurer said it plans to sell its Medicare prescription drug business in a key step toward completing its $67.5 billion merger.

Filings for U.S. unemployment benefits rose last week, reflecting jumps in states hit by Hurricane Florence.

Boosting the widow's benefit, while limiting the size of the increase for higher earners, could be a “well-targeted way to help reduce poverty for this vulnerable group.”

School closures will continue to impact the labor force participation rate for women, who generally take on a greater share of childcare obligations.

The coronavirus pandemic, and the accompanying mass shift to doing white-collar work from home, has led to reports of real estate frenzies in scenic places.

Sales and customer-support roles are among those being eliminated, and affects some workers who sell the company’s software aimed at financial-services firms, health and life-science companies and other cloud sales teams.

Pinterest canceled a large office lease at a building to be constructed near its San Francisco headquarters, marking one of the most significant moves yet by a big tech company to scale back real estate plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forty-two percent of workers had a positive view of working remotely, and 72% said they’d like to work away from the office at least two days a week, as employers contemplate return-to-work plans.

It is up to employers, in conjunction with employees, to make the call on returning to the office, and there is no point in forcing it if remote working hasn’t hurt productivity and profitability.

Companies are starting to realize that they can’t leave working parents twisting in the wind, trying to figure this out individually with their supervisors — the problem is too big.