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Nichole Foley had worked at Google for well over a decade when she was laid off in the fall, as part of yet another round of layoffs at the tech giant. "I had never had a bad experience," she says of her tenure at Google. "I drank the Kool-Aid. I ...
Many years ago, I introduced my six-year-old son to Chutes and Ladders. He took to the classic board game immediately, and we bonded while moving our respective pieces up and down the board. At last, he rolled a five and counted square by square ...
The threats of social media are making front-page news. Proposed bans of TikTok for ties to the Chinese Government or state governments enacting legislation limiting social media are getting mainstream attention across the country. While the current ...
The threat from a wildfire near Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be easing on Wednesday, a day after it forced thousands of residents to evacuate and stirred memories of a damaging blaze nearly a decade earlier. Favorable ...
Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman's Family Farms, which sells eggs that have ended up in the supply chains of huge companies like McDonald's, Target and Albertsons.
Arturo Rivera Martínez stood over an insanely hot grill Wednesday at his newly minted Michelin-starred establishment--the first Mexican taco stand ever to get a coveted star from the French dining guide--and did exactly the same thing he's been ...
In the early days of new parenthood, the idea of planning for a future beyond the next load of laundry can feel ludicrous. If you're focused on keeping a tiny human being alive (and struggling to remember when you last brushed your teeth), committing ...
Workers with disabilities made major gains in 2023. Last year, 22.5% of people with a disability were employed, the highest percentage since the data was first collected in 2008. Thanks to a resilient labor market, more remote work opportunities, and ...
This week's announcement from the Food and Drug Administration declaring that tara flour is "generally not recognized as safe" and illegal to use could spell hope for a broken food system that enables unchecked chemicals and food additives to be put ...
Private equity is often viewed as an industry that favors a particular kind of financial engineering--one that hasn't always been good for industries where it operates, such as journalism, healthcare, and music. What may not be as well known is that ...
