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Overhaul ‘unsustainable’ incapacity benefits system, Lords committee urges | Benefits

An influential cross-party Westminster committee has warned that Labor needs to carry out a fundamental overhaul of Britain's incapacity benefit system to rein in rising health-related welfare spending. of House of Peers Economic Committee – whose member It included two former finance ministers and a former prime minister, who said major reforms were needed to […]

Starbucks to cut corporate jobs as CEO continues overhaul of coffee giant

Starbucks announced on Friday that it plans to cut an unspecified number of jobs as part of a restructuring of its internal staff. In a letter to employees, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Nicol said in a letter to employees that the Seattle coffee giant is committed to having clear and accountable owners who can […]

Overhaul national intelligence without Tulsi Gabbard at the helm

President-elect Donald Trump nominated a grossly unqualified person, Tulsi Gabbard, to be Director of National Intelligence. The Senate rejects her nomination, while working with the House of Representatives to strengthen the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's effectiveness and capabilities in meeting the national security challenges of the coming decades. A review should be […]

Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI | Obesity

Doctors are proposing a “radical overhaul” of how obesity is diagnosed around the world, amid concerns that reliance on BMI is causing millions of people to be misdiagnosed. More than one billion people are thought to be living with the condition, which is used to measure a person's BMI (height-to-weight ratio) to estimate the amount […]