The job market is getting harder to break into. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported employers added just 29,000 jobs last month, below economists’ expectations of 90,000, and more than a quarter (27.1%) of unemployed Americans have been out of work for six months or longer. Now, LinkedIn—the platform built to help users network and
Amanda Cullen is just a few years away from entering a workforce in which AI is becoming harder to avoid. But in most of her classes at North Carolina State University, the rule has been not to use it at all. “Most of my classes have been no AI,” said Cullen, a first-year who expects
NUREMBERG, Germany — A lone American soldier stood on a dusty road in Germany, fussing with a controller. Moments later, a drone, with wings that stretched almost as wide as his arms, whirred to life and shot into the sky. The soldier was taking part in a U.S. Army training exercise designed to showcase and
When is the ideal time to start investing? According to Acorns CFO Seth Wunder, eight years old might be about the right age. Wunder, a top exec at the personal finance platform aimed at helping people break into markets by investing their spare change, is a strong advocate for early financial education. His view comes
For most people, knowledge of what the work life of healthcare workers is like comes primarily from two limited points of view: watching television shows and experiencing care for their own patients. The same is true even for many people who eventually become doctors and nurses, as Grace Farris reminds us at the beginning of
