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Raising wages seems to have helped McDonald’s attract workers, along with unemployment benefits ending. “We’re getting close to full staffing levels,” CEO Chris Kempczinski said, per Restaurant Business. Anecdotally, raising wages seems to be a powerful motivator for luring workers back. Remarks from a McDonald’s earning calls shows one strategy that may have helped the fast-food giant hire workers amidst the US labor shortage: Paying more. In a Wednesday earnings call, CEO Chris Kempczinski linked the chain’s announcement of a wage hike to more ease in filling positions. McDonald...

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Delta changes the covid conversation The resurgence of covid cases in the U.S. — largely attributable to the much more contagious delta variant — has given policymakers the jitters. The Biden administration is redoubling efforts to get people vaccinated, and even some Republicans who had been silent or skeptical of the vaccines are encouraging the unvaccinated to change their status. Meanwhile, it's not just covid that's shortening U.S. life expectancy. Nearly 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

By Susan Arbetter City of Albany PUBLISHED 5:26 PM ET Jul. 01, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:26 PM EDT Jul. 01, 2021 SHARE The world is opening up. We’re slurping ramen with friends, planning Alaska cruise vacations and shopping for larger pants at the mall rather than online. Yet, there’s been a low-frequency drone of troubling news from far off places like Bangladesh that has cast a shadow on our celebratory summer.  It’s COVID-19. And ...

Yes, wages have gone up in 2021— but they're still comparatively low. Raising them across the board could help get workers back in jobs.

The vaccine rollout was an emotional roller coaster, the departing advisor says.