President Joe Biden faced intense pressure last year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent gasoline prices soaring. Voters, already angry over skyrocketing inflation for everyday products, demanded relief at the pump as the crucial midterm elections approached that could swing…
A Utah tech CEO is facing backlash after a clip of him questioning the capabilities of working mothers and praising an employee for getting rid of her pet to meet a new in-office mandate went viral. In a nine-minute video,…
Two trends touching upon employee productivity are clearly on the mind of at least one CEO. First, remote work has made it easier for more employees to secretly hold multiple full-time jobs, or be “overemployed.” Second, A.I. tools such as…
The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues. The justices granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker…
How will the resumption of federal student loan payments affect your budget? Email senior writer Alicia Adamczyk for a future article. The moratorium on federal student loan payments has been a financial boon for many households. But if and when…
The email went out to legal cannabis growers around Washington state, alerting them that another of their colleagues had gone under. “Liquidation sale,” it said. Attached was a spreadsheet of items up for grabs: LED grow lights for $500 apiece.…
Recently appearing as a guest on the Chicks in the Office podcast, Barbara Corcoran tells both hosts (two women in their twenties, who say they’re currently renting in New York) that the best thing anyone in their twenties can do…
For the last 30 years, Israel has produced more startups per capita than any other country outside of the U.S. It has contributed innovations such as the firewall, the USB flash drive, the VoIP protocol that underlies many of our…
For decades, the Walt Disney Co. has displayed business powers so bewitching that the fabled storyteller could have been sporting the spell-spouting hat worn by the Sorcerer in its 1940 hit film Fantasia. In the musical masterpiece, Mickey Mouse dons…