Unum awarding $175,000 gifts
Unum is awarding $175,000 gifts commemorating its 175th year in business to three sites where the insurer has major operations — Chattanooga, Portland, Maine, and Columbia, South Carolina — according to the company.
Also, an additional $175,000 gift will be spread throughout the company’s field office cities, the Chattanooga-based insurer said in a statement.
Various organizations in those cities will be the recipients with an announcement coming soon, the company said.
Unum employs about 3,000 people in Tennessee and 11,000 worldwide, offering voluntary benefits at employers’ workplaces such as disability, life, dental and vision insurance.
Hate speech traced to leading universities
Anonymous comments with racist, sexist and abusive messages that were posted for years on a jobs-related website for economists originated from numerous leading U.S. universities, according to research released Thursday.
Some economists have long condemned the website, Economics Job Market Rumors, for its toxic content. The site, known by its acronym EJMR, is run by an anonymous individual and is not connected to a university or other institution. That fact had fed speculation that those who posted hateful messages on it were mostly online cranks who might not be economists.
Yet the new research indicates that users of the website include individuals at top-tier colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago.
A spokeswoman for Harvard declined to comment. Stanford and the University of Chicago did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Pfizer plant damage could cause shortage
The fallout from a Pfizer factory being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts say.
Wednesday’s tornado touched down near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and ripped up the roof of a Pfizer factory that makes nearly 25% of Pfizer’s sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals, according to the drugmaker.
Pfizer said all employees were safely evacuated and accounted for, and no serious injuries were reported. The drugmaker is still assessing damage.