The Trump administration is preparing to investigate Switzerland under Section 301 — the same trade enforcement tool used …
Governor JB Pritzker issued an order pausing state tax incentives for data centers in Illinois after the state legislature stalled his plan to keep data-center energy costs from affecting local residents’ bills. Pritzker, a Democrat seeking …
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Education
Why Newsom’s push to change when kids are screened for reading difficulties has divided experts
The Multitudes screener is administered 1-1 by an educator to a student, with paired devices. Credit: Courtesy of …
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Airbnb led a $58 million Series C funding round for European tour and experience platform WeRoad Wednesday — …
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Business
This billionaire is capping his kids’ inheritance at 8 figures—like Bill Gates, he thinks generational wealth is bad for society
Dylan Taylor made his first million at 27. Last year, he became a billionaire at 53, after taking …
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Natalia Mochernak serves a ball in a club national tennis tournament final. Courtesy of Natalia Mochernak I was …
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Business
Headcount at the world’s largest real estate brokerage is shrinking, and two lawsuits claiming sexual assaults inside the company may offer clues as to why
eXp Realty founder Glenn Sanford built the largest independent real estate brokerage in the world, with about 83,000 …
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Business
‘It’s a cage match’: Beleaguered iRobot founder says the biggest reason why the Roomba-maker failed was because of growing Chinese competition
After Roomba-maker iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, cofounder and former CEO Colin Angle did not …
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Business
AI isn’t paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds
The ongoing dialogue regarding the ever-imminent displacement of white-collar workers by AI is predicated on the assumption that the …
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Business
Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year
For roughly 76 million American households, federal income taxes could eventually disappear—if a proposal by billionaire Amazon founder …
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Business
The pig in the python: Baby boomers are strangling the economy they built by refusing to move or retire
In 1974, New York Times humorist Russell Baker identified a “pig in the python” working its way through …
