The enforcement of the historic United States law to combat international corruption was suspended on 10 February 2025 through a presidential executive order. On the same day, companies under investigation or sanctioned for corruption increased their market capitalisation by an average of USD 160 million. A signal that could also lead other countries to scale back their efforts to fight international corruption

 Daniel Peat, PhD, who specializes in military-affected individuals in business management, published a new research review, “Veterans and military-connected individuals in the civilian workforce: an integrative review and research agenda,” in the Organization and Management Journal. Peat and his team created a synthesis of established research, finding key trends, themes and areas of focus in the workplace that need more study. By reading through the work of 189 authors spanning over 60 years of research, the team found that not only is empirical research lacking, but that there is not enough work focusing on the specific barriers that military-affiliated workers face.

In “Intimate Partner Violence and Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit,” published in November in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Law and Economics, researchers from the University of Connecticut and City University of New York found the earned income tax credit decreased the prevalence of physical and sexual violence among unmarried, low-educated women by 9.73%. Further, it decreased the counts of such violence by 21%.