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More than 2,000 California mental health clinicians set to strike

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Thousands of mental health therapists at the country’s largest non-profit HMO are poised to strike this week, holding daily picket lines and rallies outside Kaiser Facilities throughout California. The unionized psychologists, therapists, chemical dependency counselors and social workers are demanding that Kaiser Permanente provide “desperately needed” services to its patients, claiming

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Who owns your credit score? Not you

By Alexandra Peers, CNN Business Credit agencies know a lot about Americans. The agencies accumulate information, such as Social Security numbers, birthdays, how much savings people have, how much debt they’re in and how late they pay their bills. That data is boiled down to a number ranging from 300-850 that estimates the risk of

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Inflation, explained: Why prices keep going up and who’s to blame

By Allison Morrow and Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Confused about inflation? You’re not alone. Inflation is, paradoxically, both incredibly simple to understand and absurdly complicated. Let’s start with the simplest version: Inflation happens when prices broadly go up. That “broadly” is important: At any given time, the price of goods will fluctuate based on shifting

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Velveeta is staging a comeback

By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business In 2020, something incredible happened in the dairy aisle: Velveeta started flying off the shelves. Sales of the processed cheese product, which food snobs love to hate, have been in decline for years. Then the pandemic hit, and suddenly stressed-out, homebound people wanted Velveeta for their queso, fudge and extra-cheesy

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How Abercrombie, Victoria’s Secret and Vitamin Shoppe use smell to get you to spend more

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Have you ever stepped into an Abercrombie, Victoria’s Secret, Vitamin Shoppe or another store and wondered: “What’s that smell?” Scent is a subtle, often underrated, component of companies’ attempts to entice customers and get them to linger around longer. These retail chains and other companies, including restaurants, fast-food chains, airlines,

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Consumers still don’t feel great about the economy, despite lower gas prices

Martha C. White for CNN Business Consumer sentiment in August continued to rebound from its June trough, but Americans’ feelings about the economy remain profoundly depressed from a year earlier, weighed down by uncertainty about inflation and the job market. The nation’s collective outlook rose marginally this month, according to the latest University of Michigan

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