Excessive costs of living force many people to work more than optimal hours, leaving less time for family and fun. Local ...

Over the years, we’ve seen certain kinds of healthcare costs steadily climb. Administrative expenses at urban hospitals, for example, rose more than 90% between 2011 and 2022, according to government ...

Bhavik Savaliya is a senior consultant at U.K.-based global professional services firm Turner & Townsend. Opinions are the author’s own. Cost overruns have long been a familiar outcome in commercial ...

A sign points the way to the emergency department at Maine Medical Center in Portland in March 2020. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and ...

aDepartment of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China bDepartment of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University ...

For several years, veterans groups have been pushing for legislation that would allow those wounded in combat to receive both disability benefits and retirement pay. However, a bill intended to do ...

Fans of humanoid robots might want to catch a recent NBC News report on Unitree’s Lunar New Year celebration. It features chorus lines of robots performing feats of dexterity and coordination—kung fu, ...

The Trump Administration is underweighting the value of human health in benefit-cost analysis. Most importantly, the practice of benefit-cost analysis has been reinforced by decades of bipartisan ...

With the idea of banning large investors from buying real estate, President Trump has brought to the forefront the issue of real estate. This has been recently at the top of popular discourse, and ...

A recent UH report likens Hawaiʻi’s economy to that of West Virginia — another place being “left behind.” Policymakers and media outlets often point to Hawaiʻi’s high cost of living when discussing ...

According to a survey conducted by PwC, most CEOs haven’t yet seen financial return on AI investments within their businesses. These findings come as CEOs face significant pressure to adopt AI. Even ...

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...