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Recent efforts to control spending, including accountable care organizations, value-based payment, and high-deductible health plans, have emphasized optimizing patterns of health service use.

Fast-food job losses in California spiked after passage of the $20 minimum wage for some workers, according to a new study.

Puerto Rico's finances have been a problem for a long time, but its problems were radically exacerbated by Hurricane María in 2017.

North Dakota is experiencing a tight labor market with an inability to attract workers for various occupations. While several policies may be considered to alleviate this workforce shortage, policies that remove or reduce restrictions on workers are particularly attractive; they can potentially increase the number of available workers at a very low cost.

Puerto Rico must strengthen the capacities of its population in view of the possibility that cuts in federal public spending may affect the funds received on the island for social assistance programs.

We present new data on regulatory restrictions across states and occupations between 2017 and 2022 to study the labor market effects of occupational licensing.

In this column, Rivera Schatz explains how Laws 96-2025 and 102-2025 reduce bureaucracy to retain and attract talent to Puerto Rico.

Since the birth of socialism in Spain in 1879, and its bastard child, communism in 1921, their goal has been the destruction of Spain and to achieve it they would not hesitate to use the Spanish people to destroy it.

Most economic research has documented a rise in income inequality over the past several decades, with divergent labor earnings being a key driver. Several explanations have been proposed, including changes in the relative demand for skills, the weakening of unions, reductions in the real value of the minimum wage, changes in progressive taxation, and alternative employment arrangements such as performance-based pay and independent contracting.

I begin this column with a painful illusion: if only the Government of Puerto Rico truly cared about the well-being of its people.