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‘Skills nobody can take’: Meet a 20-year-old with a 4.5 GPA who skipped college for technical school to land an ‘AI-proof’ career

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‘Skills nobody can take’: Meet a 20-year-old with a 4.5 GPA who skipped college for technical school to land an ‘AI-proof’ career

admin September 22, 2026 0

Alejandro Rodriguez was a gifted-and-talented student with a 4.5 GPA and every expectation of a four-year degree....

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$6 trillion a year in unpaid labor isn’t counted in GDP. Its absence from official stats distorts how we see growth, living standards and productivity

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$6 trillion a year in unpaid labor isn’t counted in GDP. Its absence from official stats distorts how we see growth, living standards and productivity

admin September 21, 2026 0

A new GAO report puts a price tag on unpaid household labor and shows why family income...

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America’s bedrot era: How the dopamine recession created the ‘couch economy’

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America’s bedrot era: How the dopamine recession created the ‘couch economy’

admin September 16, 2026 0

New spending data shows how much of the economy now depends on people staying home, and a...

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Who runs the labor market? Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August

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Who runs the labor market? Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August

admin September 4, 2026 0

The economy added 162,000 jobs, nearly triple forecasts, but the gains were unusually concentrated among women

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America’s entrepreneurial boom begins long before venture capital

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America’s entrepreneurial boom begins long before venture capital

admin July 5, 2026 0

Latino-owned businesses added 180,000 net new firms between 2017 and 2023 while white-owned firms declined — and...

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‘It’s fair to ask whether it was worth it’: The Iran War has cost Americans $1,000 per household—and that’s a conservative estimate, Mark Zandi says

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‘It’s fair to ask whether it was worth it’: The Iran War has cost Americans $1,000 per household—and that’s a conservative estimate, Mark Zandi says

admin July 1, 2026 0

Mark Zandi says gas, groceries, taxes, and interest rates have already cost each American household $1,000. It's...

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