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Berkshire is one of the top ten components of the S&P 500 index [7] and one of the largest American-owned private employers in the United States. Its class A shares have the highest per-share price of any public company in the world, reaching $600,000 in February 2024, because the board has historically been opposed to splitting them. [8]
Some employers and colleges also choose to subsidize the cost of these passes for employees or students. The MBTA has long had a program that facilitates these bulk purchases for monthly passes. In 2016, it began allowing MIT to subsidize on a per-ride basis, which is considerably cheaper to the institution; this expanded to other employers in ...
Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Nodes in the peer-to-peer bitcoin network verify transactions through cryptography and record them in a public distributed ledger, called a blockchain, without central oversight.
With a payroll of $2.4 billion, the airport has a direct and indirect economic impact of $3.2 billion on the local and regional economy and an annual regional economic impact of more than $19.8 billion. [43] In December 2015, the airport became the first airport in the world to serve 100 million passengers in a year. [44]
BNSF Railway (reporting mark BNSF) is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, [1] 33,400 miles (53,800 km) of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. [2]
Many employees working in Samsung's semiconductor facilities have developed various forms of cancers. [ citation needed ] Initially, Samsung denied being responsible for the illnesses. Although Samsung is known to disfavor trade unions, [ 259 ] these sick workers organized in the group SHARPS (Supporters for the Health And Rights of People in ...