Acadia Healthcare’s chief executive was awarded a $1.8 million bonus to respond to “unprecedented governmental inquiries” into allegations of holding psychiatric patients against their will.
Category: Wages and Salaries
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‘Sinners’ Is a Box Office Success (With a Big Asterisk)
Ryan Coogler’s original horror film was expected to sell a strong $40 million-plus in tickets over the weekend. But its profitability remains a long way off.
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Can China Fight Deflation and Trump’s Tariffs at the Same Time?
China is facing a double whammy: corrosive deflation and tariffs that threaten to block trade. Chinese workers will be the biggest casualties.
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How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom
The reality of being a contractor includes inexperienced workers, sketchy business practices and low, low margins.
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American Wealth Is at a Record High. Sentiment Is Low, and Falling.
A surge in U.S. wealth has been driven by stock and home values. But the gains are concentrated at the top, leaving others in a sour economic mood.
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How a Classic French Dish Is Squeezed by Lingering Inflation
Businesses across Europe, including restaurants in Paris that make the dish, are being squeezed by sticky inflation.
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What You Should Know About Your Spouse’s Money
Many couples are surprisingly unaware about key aspects of each other’s finances — and that can hurt them. Here’s how to get on the same page.
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Dockworkers Vote to Accept New Labor Contract
Workers at East and Gulf Coast ports who went on strike briefly in October ratified a deal that includes a 62 percent raise over six years.
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Starbucks to Lay Off 1,100 Corporate Workers
The jobs cuts, which will affect about 7 percent of the chain’s non-retail staff, are part of its new chief executive’s plan to win back customers.
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FDA Staffed Up to Review AI and Food Safety. Those Hires Are Now Gone.
Teams evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.
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As Salaries Boom, It’s a Good Time to Be an NFL Coach
Pay packages, even for first-time coaches, have risen sharply since the 1990s as teams seek those who can turn their franchises into perennial Super Bowl contenders.
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As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril
Workers say the move is overdue, but theater companies fear it will drive up costs in a wounded sector that has yet to recover from the pandemic.