Oil Prices Surge As Israel Prepares To Invade Gaza
The spike is not yet showing up at the pump, but fears of a regional conflict are driving up key crude benchmarks.
BALTIMORE, MD, October 15, 2024 – The opioid epidemic is a crisis that has plagued the United States for decades. One central issue of the epidemic is inequitable access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), which puts certain populations at a higher risk of opioid overdose.
The supply chain for many small parcel shipping companies is typically long. Products are often made in distant lands, travel on oceans and waterways, arrive at ports, are then transported to warehouses, from where a third-party logistics provider delivers the product to its intended destination. In a stable world, shippers and customers alike can expect a product to be delivered within the promised time window. However, in a world facing high levels of uncertainty caused by war, pandemic, political instability, raw material shortages, freak accidents (recall the regional and national impact of the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore caused by a container ship), and weather, the shipper must work overtime to ensure customer expectations are met at no additional cost, despite these uncertainties.
The minimum wage is getting lip service on the campaign trail. Well-intentioned plans can backfire, Christopher Tang writes in a guest commentary.
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The spike is not yet showing up at the pump, but fears of a regional conflict are driving up key crude benchmarks.
In the days since the Oct. 7 surprise attack by Hamas, Israel has counted its dead and secured its borders. The country now faces a grim choice.
The 2023-24 NHL hockey season is now underway. With every team’s eye on winning the Stanley Cup, the biggest task faced by general managers is assembling a winning team. Yet to do this requires imagination to circumvent the salary cap that every team must abide by.
American female workers, as of 2021, were making about 83.1% of the pay of men. And at the rate of recent progress, it would take another 40 years for women, averaging across races, to reach parity.
It would probably require far more than a one-off, short-term military operation, and a wider campaign presents a host of challenges.
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