It’s Thursday at 9 PM. I’m staring into my laptop, its glow illuminating my face like a tiny stage light.
A soft red blanket drapes over my lap. Behind me, a dim lamp casts a shadow that flickers lazily on the wall. The AirPods in my ears hum Lofi beats, attempting to serenade a soul that feels more exhausted than inspired.
The rest of my family is winding down. Me? I glance at the bottom left of the screen: slide 17 of 37. Awesome.
Employment gains were so weak in the July jobs report that President Donald Trump fired the head of the bureau charged with collecting the data, baselessly claiming it was rigged.
But fresh figures out Wednesday show that those meager job totals weren’t an anomaly: For the first time in more than four years, there are fewer open jobs than there are job seekers.
“This is a turning point for the labor market,” Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote Wednesday. “It’s yet another crack.”
The iPhone 17 launch is a massive success in China, with preorders for the new models breaking sales records in the usually turbulent market.
China is an important market to Apple, but one that it has had trouble managing to maintain over the years. For the release of its newest iPhone range, it seems that Apple has managed to pull off a successful launch and reinvigorated demand in the country.
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– An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The United States has issued a tsunami warning following a powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck off the eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
It’s especially true if you’re a woman – and there’s almost nothing you can do about it.
After being laid off from her job at cable television provider Comcast, Shavonne Patrice Owens thought she had finally landed a new job last year at a child care centre in Huntsville, Alabama. A friend had recommended her and when she went for an interview, she was introduced to the children and staff.
Even when they are able to do the job competently, obese people routinely face discrimination in the workplace.
A little more than halfway into 2025, Americans are facing new and complex financial challenges.
While inflation has cooled from its peak, its effects are lingering, especially in light of higher tariffs, elevated interest rates, and a tight labor market. Credit card balances have once again reached a new record high, student loan delinquencies are climbing, and a significant number of Americans still lack emergency savings.
In 2025, the economic landscape in the United States has shifted dramatically, with poverty becoming the new normal for millions of Americans. Despite low official unemployment rates and a booming stock market, the reality for working-class families is one of stagnant wages, skyrocketing living costs, and diminishing opportunities. Here’s how America’s “working poor” crisis unfolded:
The American dream was built around a timeline: Get married, buy a home, start a family. But that timeline is breaking down.
Today, Americans are waiting longer or opting out entirely: Fewer marriages, fewer babies, delayed moves. And behind it all, a housing market that increasingly seems like it was built for a different time. That’s why some experts are warning that the next big stress test for housing might not be affordability—but fertility.
A young man with severe asthma used to be able to get his inhaler for cheap, but after UnitedHealthcare’s drug arm jacked up the price, he had to go without — and it ultimately killed him, his mother says.
As Madison, Wisconsin’s WMTV reports, the parents of the late Cole Schmidtknecht are suing Walgreens OptumRX, UnitedHealth’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), after it upped the price of his steroid inhaler from $66 to $539.
For the second week in a row, mortgage interest rates have barely moved. The average 30-year fixed rate is down two basis points and is still 21 basis points higher than last year. The 15-year fixed rate hasn’t changed at all this week and is up 18 basis points since last August. “Is this a good time to buy a house?”
As of August 28 this year, Freddie Mac reported that rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages were 6.56%. Although they have inched down since last week, they’re still up 21 basis points from last August. This time last year, mortgage rates were averaging 6.35%.
