Tara covers the business of health care. Her stories focus on hospitals, doctors, and how their business practices affect patients — especially when private equity gets involved. She also writes about health insurance and ideas for improving our broken ...

NPR's series Cost of Living: The Price We Pay is examining what's driving price increases and how people are coping after years of stubborn inflation. How are higher prices changing the way you live? Fill out this form to share your story with NPR.

Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a lifestyle reporter at the New York Daily News, a magazine…

About 42% of homeowners say their homeowners insurance premiums have increased "a lot," according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. There are a host of reasons why this has happened, including inflationary pressures and climate change, insurance ...

Emanuel is the vice provost for global initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy university professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Graves is a professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. There is a deadly ...

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Insurance affects the cost of rent, housing supply and recovery from disaster.

While overall U.S. employment remains resilient, insurance industry hiring is moving in the opposite direction. It is a trend that is raising concerns in an industry anxious over both the growing use of artificial intelligence, and its own aging agent force.

Data breaches are no longer just a problem for the tech industry. They've become a constant across every sector, from airlines to banks to fashion brands, exposing personal data and leaving customers worried about where their information might end up.

Nearly every piece of it has been losing headcount at some point over the past year, not just insurance. Credit intermediation, essentially bank and lending-related employment, lost 9,000 jobs in July alone,