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payroll

[pey-rohl] / ˈpeɪˌroʊl /




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However, the initiative does not stipulate how dollars diverted from payroll must be spent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Core to these networks are community health workers, some of whom were on USAID’s payroll, and all of whom have been crucial to vast health improvements across sub-Saharan Africa.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

Pan thinks the annual preliminary benchmark revision to payroll data, to be released in September, may validate the nonfarm payroll estimates, something that hasn’t happened in recent years.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

April’s payroll gain was revised up by 64,000 to 179,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The credit crisis has left businesses large and small unable to get loans, which means they can’t buy new equipment, or hire new workers, or even make payroll for the workers they have.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith




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