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Douglas MacMillan

Douglas MacMillan

Business Reporter at The Washington Post

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Douglas MacMillan
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Algorithms guide senior home staffing. Managers say care is suffering. - The Washington Post

The nation’s largest assisted-living chain uses a staffing algorithm; some managers say they quit or were fired after they complained it left facilities dangerously short-handed.
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After midair failure, critics ask: Did Boeing learn from Max crashe...

Production problems in Boeing’s best-selling line over the past year, including a recent door-plug failure, suggest that the company’s culture remains unchanged.
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Understaffed and neglected: How real estate investors reshaped assi...

A woman’s death at a high-end Colorado home shows how a focus on profits in the $34 billion industry affects staffing and pay, endangering elderly residents.
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American Red Cross lacks oversight of lifeguard certification proce...

After a 6-year-old girl drowned in 2019, two men alleged oversight failures by the nonprofit, which certifies 60% of the country’s lifeguards but trains none of them
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Surveillance cameras, facial recognition used to monitor, evict pub...

Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents, sometimes for minor rule violations, a Washington Post investigation found.
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Subpoenas issued in ongoing federal probe of crypto exchange Binanc...

The federal probe into Binance is unfolding at a time of deep uncertainty in the crypto industry.
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Uber leak: Company policies and promises put South African drivers ...

Uber enticed drivers in South Africa with lucrative subsidies, then undermined them, according to the Uber Files leak and interviews with current and former employees.

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The dangerous business of decommissioning America’s nuclear plants ...

Accidents at New Jersey’s Oyster Creek power plant have spurred calls for stricter oversight of the burgeoning nuclear decommissioning industry.
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Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ Twitter agenda creates boardroom threat -...

Shareholder activists are forcing change at companies regarding social and environmental issues, a change from the tactics of corporate raiders who focus on finances.
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Elon Musk reaches deal to buy Twitter - The Washington Post

The company’s board and the Tesla CEO reached an agreement on his $54.20 a share bid.
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How to decipher corporate claims about climate and avoid greenwashi...

Companies are eager to tout their environmental progress on Earth Day. Here are five tips for investigating whether their claims tell the full story.
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SEC plans to force public companies to disclose greenhouse gas emis...

Under a groundbreaking new rule the SEC is expected to propose Monday, hundreds of businesses would be required to measure and disclose greenhouse gas emissions in a standardized way for the first time, according to people briefed on the matter.
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Congress urges feds to examine drug companies aiming to turn opioid...

House members say firms may be trying to shift the financial burden onto taxpayers.
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Trump’s Truth Social not likely to launch for months - The Washingt...

The pace of development for Truth Social has frustrated Trump, who has discussed but ultimately turned down opportunities to work with other right-wing social media platforms.
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Trump's newest business partner: A Chinese firm with a history of S...

Shanghai-based Arc Capital, an investment firm that has been the target of probes by securities regulators, is at the center of the deal to take Trump’s media venture public.
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Extreme weather is causing longer power outages. States and utiliti...

State officials are reluctant to ask ratepayers to foot the bill for investments experts say are needed to fortify the grid against increasingly severe weather.
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Despite spills and air pollution, fossil fuel companies award CEOs ...

Marathon Petroleum’s former CEO got a $272,000 bonus for surpassing environmental goals the same year the company spilled 1,400 barrels of oil in an Indiana creek.
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Texas rails against federal plan to bring nuclear waste storage sit...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of the planned facility opens a new front in a decades-long battle to find a home for the country’s nuclear waste.
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Louisiana power outages renew questions about utility giant's prepa...

Some residents, fuming in the dark and the heat, are questioning whether more could have been done to mitigate the damage of the storm.
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IRS audits declined as businesses racked up tax breaks - The Washin...

The federal government now examines just half of all large company tax returns, despite businesses claiming increasing tax benefits over this period that they say could be overturned by authorities.
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McKesson cuts CEO pay after shareholders demand opioid accountabili...

The drug distributor’s board said it planned to dock Brian Tyler’s pay by $2.9 million after activist investors demanded opioid settlement costs be reflected in CEO pay appraisals.