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      <title>A New Rural Health Title at UnityPoint — What It Promises, and What It Doesn&apos;t</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[UnityPoint Health created an executive director of rural health partnerships. The announcement is real; the proof will take years.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Amara Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why companies quietly track tenure over tenure track</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The unofficial clock on how long people stay in a role now says more about team health than any formal ladder.]]></description>
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      <title>Return-to-office mandates didn&apos;t fix collaboration. They relocated it.</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael Hayes</dc:creator>
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      <title>Job openings fell to 7.9 million — and the quits rate is the real story</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael Hayes</dc:creator>
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      <title>Posting salary ranges shrinks pay gaps — and squeezes some raises</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael Hayes</dc:creator>
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      <title>Pay transparency laws aren&apos;t closing the wage gap. They&apos;re raising wages.</title>
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      <dc:creator>Michael Hayes</dc:creator>
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      <title>More paid vacation didn&apos;t fix America&apos;s day-off problem</title>
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      <dc:creator>Nikki Roberts</dc:creator>
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      <title>What Psychological Safety Actually Means, and Why Leaders Now Measure It</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A concept once waved away as a soft-skills buzzword has two decades of peer-reviewed research behind it. Here is what the term actually describes, and why some leaders track it like a business metric.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:39:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tanya Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>The size of the independent workforce is a measurement choice, not a fact</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Federal data says 11.9 million independent contractors. Federal data also says 29.8 million businesses without employees. Here is why both are right, and how to tell which number you actually need.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:39:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tanya Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>Founders aren&apos;t diluted at Series A. They&apos;re diluted at signing.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The post-money SAFE locks an investor's percentage the day it's signed — here's the arithmetic, the option-pool clause, and the filing deadline founders miss.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Tanya Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>The jobs number you react to isn&apos;t the one that counts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The monthly payroll print is a sample-based estimate with a forecast bolted on. Here's what the birth-death model does, when the benchmark fixes it, and how big a normal correction looks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:39:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Lena Fischer</dc:creator>
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      <title>Job hopping stopped paying — the 2026 data shows why</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[New payroll data from ADP and the Atlanta Fed shows the raise gap between switching jobs and staying put has nearly closed — and for Gen Z workers, it's already reversing.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:39:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Kara Williams</dc:creator>
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      <title>Employers dropped the degree requirement — hiring barely moved</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A widely cited Harvard Business School–Burning Glass Institute study of more than 11,000 roles found the skills-based hiring boom changed job postings far more than it changed who actually got hired.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:39:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Amara Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Households spent pandemic savings and borrowed to keep the expansion going. The data, the delinquency picture, and the real trigger.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Lena Fischer</dc:creator>
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      <dc:creator>Michael Hayes</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Forced team building survived budget cuts and then lost the calendar war. What actually builds hybrid-era culture instead.]]></description>
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