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People with higher socioeconomic status are more charitable with their money but more selfish with their time
In recent years, social and behavioral scientists have shown increased interest in understanding how a person’s socioeconomic status (SES) affects their willingness to give to others. A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that the answer depends on the context of the giving — people with higher SES are more generous with their money …
Biden bill to help millions escape higher health care costs
WASHINGTON — Millions of people in the United States will be spared from big increases in health care costs next year after President Joe Biden signed legislation extending generous subsidies for those who buy plans through federal and state marketplaces. The sweeping climate, tax and health care bill sets aside $70 billion over the next three …
Cardinal Health’s Supply-Chain Woes Means Higher Healthcare-Provider Costs
Text size The supply-chain crisis hasn’t eased up for Cardinal Health. Dreamstime More than two years into the pandemic, the supply-chain crisis hasn’t eased up for Cardinal Health , a distributor of drugs, and maker of medical supplies. Shares were down 5.1% on Thursday after the company reported fiscal-third-quarter earnings that missed Wall Street expectations, …
Technology Shares Edge Higher — Tech Roundup
Shares of technology companies edged higher. The Senate on Tuesday approved a bipartisan, $250 billion bill boosting government spending on technology research and development amid rising competition from China and other nations. The biggest American-owned solar-panel maker announced plans to invest $680 million in a new Ohio factory, in one of the largest bets on …
Resource plays lead London market higher after 3-day break
U.K. stocks returned on Tuesday from a three-day break with strong gains, as commodity plays surged, with oil prices at a more than two-year high. Miners including Rio Tinto RIO, +3.76% and Anglo American AAL, +4.50%, and energy producers BP BP, +2.17% and Royal Dutch Shell RDSB, +1.73%, helped the FTSE 100 UKX, +1.12% jump …
Technology, health care firms propel stocks higher
Stocks capped a listless day of trading on Wall Street with modest gains Friday and the S&P 500’s first weekly gain in three weeks. Gains in technology and health care companies outweighed a slide in communications stocks, retailers and elsewhere in the market. The S&P 500 rose 0.1% and notched a 1.2% gain for the …
Wall St headed for strong open as higher oil drives energy stocks
The front facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in New York City, U.S., May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Wall Street’s main indexes were on pace to open higher on Monday as higher oil prices lifted energy stocks, while investors geared up for key inflation readings later this week. Chevron Corp …
VC Process Technology Program students win national troubleshooting title | Higher Education
The four-member “Team DCDR” surrounded the big-screen TV in Room 226 of Victoria College’s Industrial Training Center on the afternoon of April 24, anxiously waiting to hear the final results of the North American Process Technology Alliance’s 2021 Troubleshooting Skills Competition. San Jacinto College had won the last three titles and was the favored to …
Stocks close higher as banks, technology lead broad rally
A choppy day of trading on Wall Street ended Thursday with stocks broadly higher and another all-time high for the Dow Jones industrial average. Banks and technology companies led a late-afternoon turnaround that pushed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to a 0.8% gain, reversing the benchmark index’s losses for the week. Gains in most …
