As AI threatens white-collar workers and hits some college graduates looking for entry-level roles, young people are pouring into blue-collar job training programs.
Before the pandemic, the trade school market “had been largely stagnant,” according to a March report from the higher education marketing and research firm Validated Insights. Now, fall enrollment at trade schools is expected to grow 6.6% a year.
In the World Happiness Report’s annual ranking of the happiest countries, the U.S. dropped to No. 24, its lowest position in the list’s 13-year history. Last year, the U.S. dropped out of the top 20 for the first time. The list is compiled from analysis of how a representative sample of residents from over 140 countries rate their quality of life.
“That gradual decline in well-being in the United States is, if you start digging into it, especially driven by people that are below 30,” Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, professor of economics at the University of Oxford, leader of the Wellbeing Research Centre and editor of the World Happiness Report, tells Fortune. “Life satisfaction of young people in the U.S. has declined.”
There are a myriad of factors that can cause misery for Americans related to finances, whether its their monthly bills, credit card debt, or inflation.
A few months ago, I was lost in the endless rabbit hole of TikTok’s “For You” feed, sipping my coffee and soaking in the algorithm’s attempt to decode me. It was a mix of book recommendations, tear-jerking podcast clips, and, oddly enough, Taylor Swift concert footage (not complaining about that last one). But one afternoon, the algorithm decided to inundate me with AI content — videos with bold titles like, “Use These Three AI Tools to Make $10,000 a Month!” or “The Best Passive Income Hack No One Talks About.”
After upgrading to a more spacious electric vehicle, Yin decides to forgo renting a flat, saving 2,500 yuan (US$350) a month on rent
A 38-year-old programmer working in Beijing, who spends weekdays sleeping in his car and returns to his home in nearby Tianjin every Friday, has gained significant attention on mainland social media.
The man, known as Yin, typically departs from Tianjin at 5.30am on Monday, driving 130km along the highway to reach his workplace in Beijing. He returns home after finishing work on Friday afternoons.
Americans are struggling financially, grappling with debt and the rising cost of living, and are blaming the Trump administration and corporate interests for worsening economic outlooks for working families, according to a new poll.
Six out of 10 Americans place blame on the Trump administration for driving up their cost of living, according to a poll conducted by Morning Consult for the Century Foundation, which asked 2,007 Americans how they are managing the high cost of living in the US economy, who they think is to blame and what are the solutions.
Public trust in institutions, capitalism, and even the value of hard work continues to erode in 2025, according to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, now in its 25th year. The survey of more than 30,000 respondents across 28 countries highlights widening divisions between elites and the broader public, a growing crisis of legitimacy for capitalism, and deep fears about job security in an age of technological disruption.
The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a resident of the United States who was incorrectly deported to El Salvador and later became a symbol of the Trump administration’s strict immigration policy, has taken another unexpected turn.
So said data from Bank of America Research over the past six weeks. Eleven percent of Americans were trying to have a baby over the next year, live births increased by 3.3% from June 2020 to June 2021, and sales of pregnancy tests were on the rise.
