| Companies are increasingly willing to wade into social issues, often spurred by employees who expect employers to take a stand on LGBT rights, climate change, health care and a host of other concerns. Even so, the renewed war over abortion rights remained a third rail—until now. This week, Netflix became the first major company to publicly disavow Georgia's newly restrictive abortion law. The streaming service, which filmed Ozark and Stranger Things in the state, said it would reconsider its "entire investment" there if the law, which is likely to end up before the Supreme Court, takes effect. A few days later, Disney CEO Bob Iger said it would be "very difficult" to keep film production there, tax incentives or no. —Rebecca Greenfield Did you see this? JPMorgan agreed to a record payout to settle a claim that its parental leave policies discriminated against dads.
Japanese officials are asking global media to refer to the prime minister as Abe Shinzo, in accordance with the local, last-name-first convention.
An app that facilitates mental health counseling through text message and video chat raised $50 million in funding.
Illinois lawmakers approved a plan that would allow for higher taxes on the state's richest residents. The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a Pennsylvania school district policy of letting transgender students use bathrooms of their choice.
MacKenzie Bezos said she'll donate half of her $37 billion divorce settlement to charity. We love charts Americans with a bachelor's degree earned less in real terms last year than in 1990, according to New York Fed data. That probably contributed to one of the findings from the Federal Reserve Board's sixth annual survey of household economics: Just two-thirds of those graduates believe their investment in education paid off. New Zealand welcomes you As isolationist, anti-immigration rhetoric sweeps the globe, New Zealand is going the other way: Its current government has embraced foreigners as a means of diversifying the economy and rethinking the country's collective goals. Enter the nation's experimental new three-year visa—and path to citizenship—available to "interesting people with good intentions and good ideas," as Bloomberg Businessweek's Ashlee Vance puts it.
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