Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday said labor costs will rise if immigrants under temporary protected status (TPS) are deported as a result of the Supreme Court’s recent decision ...

Perioperative leaders are navigating a cost equation that’s getting harder to balance. Becker’s asked surgical and anesthesia executives which cost pressures concern them most and the answers converge ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis survey found 54% of construction companies reported lower activity than a year ago. Labor shortages remain a top challenge, with firms struggling to find workers ...

States have emerged as laboratories to test policies to contain health care spending. In 2010, Rhode Island adopted novel affordability standards that reduced commercial prices and hospital revenues.

Workforce spending remained hospitals’ top expense in 2025, representing 60% of total expenses, according to the American Hospital Association. Workforce costs rose 5.6% in 2025 as hospitals continued ...

The average American restaurant's lifespan is just 4.5 years. About 17% close within their first year. But what separates a thriving business from one on the brink of closure is a single number: its ...

The Washington region’s Metro system has recovered from the covid pandemic better than most American transit agencies. Yet taxpayers who don’t take the train or bus are increasingly subsidizing those ...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - Growth in U.S. labor ⁠costs ⁠increased slightly more than expected ⁠in the first quarter amid a jump in benefits, but wage growth was moderate against the backdrop of ...

Nestlé has revealed the financial impact of the cereulide in infant formula incident. According to Nestlé, the infant formula recall affected first quarter 2026 growth but product availability was now ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane city leaders say rising labor costs and a new medical provider are pushing the city to pay an additional $3 million to use the Spokane County jail. Since 2011, the city and ...

Affordability has quickly become the word for 2026. Across the political spectrum, people are working to define what affordability looks like. For my efforts at the Arizona Corporation Commission, ...