The WNBA added three new teams this season, at a time when launching a new company isn’t exactly ideal. Plus, international students at U.S. universities and lithium mining in Argentina.
In a balanced housing market, households making about $100,000 a year should be able to afford 60% of homes. Today, they find less than 40% within reach.
Restaurants being used as pawns between OpenTable and Resy is showing how much capturing big spenders in these categories matter to credit card companies, said Priya Krishna at the New York Times.
Recent survey data finds that unions are getting ever-more popular among Americans, though fewer than 10% of American workers are currently represented by a union.
After the killing of George Floyd, big banks announced plans to invest millions in smaller, Black-owned banks to allow them to better support underserved community businesses.
Nadia Olivos, who tends strawberry and raspberry plants at the farm she works at, is finishing up her AgTEC Workforce classes, which aim to give students a leg up in agriculture technology-focused careers.
If the federal government is going to issue more bonds, they’d better raise the interest rates. Plus, FAFSA backlogs, rural entrepreneurs and a first-time homeowner.
According to a new survey, nearly a third of colleges have dealt with delays in getting FAFSA information, which is key to providing students with answers about the cost of college attendance.
Pottery Barn is one of many retailers focusing more on business outside the U.S. And it seems to be a strategy to offset the cost of tariffs, and the potential downshift in spending from American consumers.
Reza Ehsani, mechanical engineering professor at the University of California, Merced, is one of the professors guiding students to research and develop agriculture tech that could be commercialized.
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Home Depot is in a better position to keep prices as-is than, say, Walmart. Plus: a Black-owned coffee brand, natural gas turbines and tariff-savvy shopping.
Black Tulsa rebuilt Greenwood after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. But what would come next would largely destroy the neighborhood — and much of its wealth — for good.
Drew Ketelsen, vice president and farm manager at HMC Farms, says adopting the latest in agtech has created a safer work environment for field workers, and it has added efficiency to the day-to-day.
Canadians are shunning U.S. goods in protest of President Trump’s policies. Plus, what’s changed since that National Association of Realtors lawsuit and how homeowners are feeling right now.
Nina Eichacker, an economics professor at the University of Rhode Island, says the downgrade speaks to a “growing disparity between an administration that talks about wanting to reduce the debt and then pursues policies that do anything but.”
Black-owned banks received a wave of investment after George Floyd’s murder. That investment helped those lenders make more loans than they could have otherwise.
According to a new study from Redfin, buyers’ agents are still making about the same amount on commissions now as they were before the new rules went into effect — and sellers are mostly still paying them.
Recent polling shows a significant decline in the United States’ global reputation, and that’s showing up in how people outside the U.S. are shopping. This is especially true in Canada, where anti-American backlash is changing consumer and business behavior.
From the BBC World Service: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to unveil the results of a reset in post-Brexit relations with the EU on defense, trade and fishing rights.
