Most hospitals are not fully complying with a 2021 requirement to publish prices, a new analysis shows. The requirement was intended to increase transparency of health care costs and make it possible to shop around for the best prices of medical care.
Earnings inequality has been increasing. This column uses individual US data to understand the causes of this phenomenon from the late 1990s to the late 2010s. Over 60% of the rise in labour earnings inequality is driven by growing inequality between industries, rather than within industries. Moreover, 30 out of a total of 301 industries account for nearly the entire rise in