October 14, 2026
new video loaded: What the Unemployment Rate Isn’t Telling Us By Lydia DePillis, Christina Thornell, Laura Salaberry, Jon Hazell, Gabriel Blanco and Laura Bult•September 5, 2025 The latest job report shows that unemployment remains steady, but it’s not telling the full story. Lydia DePillis, economy reporter for The New York Times, explains how low job
READ MOREFor cafes like Haraz Coffee House, riding a wave of interest nationwide in late-night, alcohol-free gathering spaces means embracing the franchise model.
READ MOREAs cremation rates rise and consumer preferences shift, funeral homes are innovating in surprisingly unconventional ways so they don’t die out.
READ MOREFederal workers, Google employees and newspaper editors have opened up about losing their jobs in the newsletter Laid Off.
READ MOREYounger would-be chief executives are increasingly seeking profits — and freedom from the 9-to-5 — by pivoting from corporate jobs into often unglamorous small-business niches.
READ MOREHe helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis.
READ MOREShe was a fiery lawyer from eastern Kentucky who charged coal companies with discrimination for their refusal to hire women. Her campaign was a success.
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“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. Jam the towel under the door. Open the window. And hide the bong. For decades, college students have found ways to mask the pungent aroma of marijuana smoke on campuses. Wanda James, however, did not always feel a need to hide. A
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As protests after the killing of George Floyd convulsed the nation in the summer of 2020, the executive director of the Sierra Club wrote an explosive blog post about John Muir, the storied conservationist who founded the environmental organization. Muir, the executive director wrote, had made “derogatory comments about Black people and Indigenous peoples that
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Do you think the gaps have always been there or are they becoming more common now? The situations that are coming up now seem like they are more frequent. But it’s really important to understand that we don’t think of ourselves as a substitute for social safety nets. What we are is a complement to
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Jim Weber, the longtime chief executive of Brooks Running, was for many years a devoted runner. The hours spent racking up the miles were more than exercise for him. They were a chance to meditate on life, to devise strategy about business, and to ruminate on the thorny problems that come with operating a company
READ MORENiren Chaudhary took over as C.E.O. just before the pandemic. He now has the company focused on climate change.
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VENICE, Italy — From the time he was a child, Edoardo Beniamin could envision paddling a gondola through the waterways of Venice, his native city. He saw himself, dressed in a striped jersey and ribboned straw hat, following his father and an uncle into a profession that has served as the enduring symbol of La
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Arvind Krishna is trying to stay in touch with the company’s roots as he confronts today’s challenges.
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LONDON — Scotland gained worldwide praise when it passed a pioneering period act, making tampons and pads free by law and instructing schools to make them available in every building. One region even instituted a “period dignity officer.” Then the role was given to a man. The appointment of Jason Grant, a former personal trainer,
READ MOREFor a biologist in San Francisco, Dec. 25 will bring not presents and mistletoe, but beak trims and fish guts.
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The retail industry is trying to figure out its correct size. Retailers, faced with sky-high demand from shoppers during the pandemic, spent the past three years ramping up their operations in areas like human resources, finance and technology. Now, times have changed. A public that rushed to buy all sorts of goods in the earlier
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“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. It takes a lot of people to make a movie. You’ve got the director for overall vision, the gaffer on the lights, the set decorators to add texture to the film’s world, and the costume designers to envision the actors’ looks. And
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For the past several years, Ms. Jones has been developing one central philosophy: Because Black women have historically been concentrated in low-paid caregiving jobs, which are often excluded from labor laws and benefits like Social Security, they have accumulated less wealth and experienced worse health outcomes. Furthermore, Ms. Jones argues, helping Black women — through
READ MOREHamissi Mamba, a refugee from Burundi, knew little of American culture when he arrived eight years ago and learned English watching the “Peppa Pig” cartoon. But he opened his dream restaurant, and the accolades have rolled in.
READ MOREThe unemployment rate for Black New Yorkers rose to 12.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, while the white unemployment rate dropped to 1.3 percent, a new report says.
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Making It Work is a series is about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. Hakki Akdeniz, the founder of the Champion Pizza chain in New York City, speaks freely about his past. When he first moved to the United States from Canada in 2001, he was homeless, sleeping in subway cars and at Grand
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“Making It Work” is a series is about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. When Precious Price bought her first home four years ago in Atlanta while working as a marketing consultant, she took advantage of her frequent business trips by renting out her house on Airbnb during her absences. “I knew I wanted
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“Making It Work” is a series about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. When Kenneth Laskin flew to California to meet with executives at Burgerim, a start-up chain of restaurants, he was made to feel not just like another prospective franchisee, but like part of a family. The company’s executives, he said, made a
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“Making It Work” is a series about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. At a time when most parking lots sat empty, the gravel lot in the outskirts of the Detroit suburbs was overflowing with cars — an unsettling sight in fall 2020. A stream of masked visitors looked around, wandering a wooded path
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In January 2021, Mary Gundel received a letter from Dollar General’s corporate office congratulating her for being one of the company’s top-performing employees. In honor of her hard work and dedication, the company gave Ms. Gundel a lapel pin that read, “DG: Top 5%.” “Wear it proudly,” the letter said. Ms. Gundel did just that,
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“It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. Joanna Patchett has always had a fear of death, and the dying. “I was terrified of being responsible for people’s lives, and was frightened of the space between life and death,” she
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The Guggenheim Museum announced Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with its workers’ union after more than two years of bargaining and that nearly 150 curators, conservators and other employees connected with Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers had ratified their first contract. The contract goes into effect immediately, providing an average salary
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