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        "title": "Workers' confidence in employers' outlook hits new low",
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        "prettyDate": "February 01, 2024",
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        "summary": "Layoffs, slower hiring and return-to-office mandates have employees on edge.",
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        "prettyDate": "June 30, 2021",
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        "summary": "The medicine will cost between 58% and 75% less than the current cash price of branded insulin products for uninsured patients.",
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        "prettyDate": "March 08, 2019",
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        "summary": "The grocer is “doing a lot of exploratory work” to identify an area of health care that it could enter and benefit customers. ",
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        "byline": "Matthew Boyle",
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        "prettyDate": "February 05, 2019",
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        "summary": "Effective Feb. 2, the revamp standardizes a patchwork of local and regional paid-leave policies and requirements.",
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        "prettyDate": "January 15, 2019",
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        "summary": "The two companies disagreed over prescription reimbursement rates and what Walmart referred to as the \"unregulated power\" of PBMs. ",
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        "uri": "/2018/07/20/walmart-employees-embrace-on-demand-paycheck-app/",
        "title": "Walmart employees embrace on-demand paycheck app",
        "byline": "Matthew Boyle",
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        "prettyDate": "July 20, 2018",
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        "summary": "More than 200,000 Walmart employees in the U.S. use a new app to manage their finances or access their wages early, and it's not just the hourly workers.",
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        "prettyDate": "July 17, 2018",
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        "summary": "The move comes as Walmart and Humana explore ways to deepen their alliance to provide health care to consumers, a person familiar with the matter said.",
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        "uri": "/2018/05/31/walmart-to-pay-employees-college-tuition-bills/",
        "title": "Walmart to pay employees' college tuition bills",
        "byline": "Matthew Boyle",
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        "prettyDate": "May 31, 2018",
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        "summary": "The retailer's 1.5 million employees can now pursue associate's or bachelor's degrees in business or supply-chain management at three nonprofit schools for $1 a day,",
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        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "April 04, 2018",
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        "summary": "The retail giant is said to be in talks with online startup PillPack, which pre-sorts pills into date- and time-stamped packets for patients who take multiple drugs.",
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        "uri": "/2018/01/17/wal-mart-targets-opioid-abuse-with-new-disposal-pr/",
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        "prettyDate": "January 17, 2018",
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        "summary": "Wal-Mart is touting DisposeRx as the first of its kind because it allows patients to dispose of unwanted or expired pills at home.",
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