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First jobs for college grads are becoming more elusive. Open roles for entry-level software engineers have dropped. Generative AI is writing more code, and Big Tech companies are boasting about how AI is making their workers more efficient. The number of entry-level management consulting and finance jobs began declining last year, and several big firms…

Brianna DeWitt didn't want to be a stay-at-home mom.The 35-year-old loves her job: She spends mornings on the early shift as a physical therapist in Oahu, Hawaii. The rush she gets working in a hospital every day makes her years of intense medical training worth it.So when her first baby was born in 2023, DeWitt…

French fries, the staple reward for well-behaved kids and go-to comfort food for overworked grown-ups, may soon become more of a luxury treat.While the US grows most of its own potatoes — about 44 billion pounds each year — there's another french fry ingredient that we largely don't produce on American soil, cooking oil. To…

The theory behind President Donald Trump's massive wave of tariffs is that they're a way to usher in a renaissance in American manufacturing. The idea is to make America the 1950s again, labor-wise.The Industrial Revolution brought American workers from rural farms to urban factories. And over the past several decades, those factory workers have found…

Thousands of real estate agents across the US opened their email Saturday night to find an unexpected message from Andy Florance, the CEO of CoStar Group and Homes.com. As the top executive for one of real estate's largest search websites, Florance had a lot on his mind. For months, the industry has been embroiled in…

If you feel like you have no idea what anything's supposed to cost anymore, you're not alone. The pandemic and subsequent bout of inflation sent prices all over the place, and now we're facing down whatever is going on with tariffs at any given moment. Unfortunately, our collective state of sticker "Huh?" is likely to…

In January, Donald Trump announced from the White House that he was launching "the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history, and it's all taking place right here in America." Stargate Project, a $500 billion initiative to bolster the development of AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, is designed to keep…

Americans angry about Elon Musk's unprecedented cuts to government services are voicing their displeasure at Tesla showrooms, and Musk isn't happy about it. "Who is funding and organizing all these paid protests?" he recently groused on X, referring to the ongoing wave of Tesla Takedown demonstrations taking place across the country.But the better question for…

JC Lee, the only child of the Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, recently sought the help of a Santa Barbara medium to talk to her parents.JC had always thought of Stan and Joan Lee as her best friends, the only people who'd ever truly believed in her. Her father, the cocreator of dozens of iconic…

A few months ago, after years of abysmal performance, it looked like IPOs were finally set for a comeback. ServiceTitan, a software platform for general contractors, saw its stock soar by 35% after its debut in December. A bunch of hot companies were lined up to go public: the buy-now, pay-later lender Klarna, the ticket…