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“It’s time for us to start acting and doing something. There’s so much lip service around diversity and inclusion,” Starbucks’s Mellody Hobson said.

Alphabet said it will create a bonus program for senior executives that’s partly based on their performance in supporting environmental, social and governance goals.

Employers are touting measures to curtail the risk of infection with COVID-19, but not every action is equally effective, according to experts. Some of the most widely adopted steps may not help much at all.

President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled a $1.8 trillion, 10-year plan to ramp up federal support for American families, with a major expansion in spending on child care, paid leave and education.

Many of the policies — part of Biden’s new $1.8 trillion plan — could do just that by increasing women’s labor force participation, boosting productivity and distributing benefits more equitably.

More than a third of respondents who said they’d retired earlier than planned said a hardship like a health problem or disability was the reason.

Employers increasingly are expected to play a key role in getting U.S. adults inoculated, with the pace of vaccinations in the U.S. starting to slow.

The pandemic has pushed out older employees and is deepening inequality as lower income workers feel the brunt of the crisis.

About 2.7 million Americans age 55 or older are contemplating retirement years earlier than they’d imagined because of the pandemic.

Most non-union companies have a good deal of latitude to impose vaccination requirements, because in almost all U.S. states employment is presumed to be “at will.”