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Donna, who is in her 60s, likes to book a one-way ticket when she travels so she doesn’t feel her “freedom is over” so quickly.On a recent trip to Florida, Donna explored a spiritualist camp, visited a friend at a beach house, did plenty of walking, spent time with her brother, and enjoyed a day of just hanging out in her pajamas.Despite the one-way ticket, her trip to Florida wasn’t forever as she had to return to her job as a substitute teacher in California. This is a relatively new career mo…
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Inflation has been one of the biggest pain points in the economy for the last couple years, but the end may be in sight.Some experts see inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index being around 2% — the Fed’s target year-over-year rate of price growth — by some time in 2024.The Consumer Price Index increased 3.2% year over year in October, far below the incredibly high 9.1% year-over-year increase in June 2022. October’s increase is also a lower year-over-year rise than August’s and Septem…
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About 3.5 million more US households were food insecure for at least part of 2022 than in 2021. The increase is the biggest uptick since the 2008 financial crisis.That’s according to a new US Department of Agriculture report. Food insecurity is when the “ability to acquire adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources,” per the report.Around 17 million households, or 12.8% of US households, were food insecure in 2022. Additionally, 44.2 million people were in food-insecure hous…
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The “Great Resignation” of the last few years is largely over as workers and employers alike settle into a new normal better balancing labor supply and demand. But some sectors are set to see labor shortages for years to come.“For economists, labor shortages are these longer term, enduring structural shortages where labor supply is not able to adapt to changes in demand,” Aaron Terrazas, chief economist at Glassdoor, told Insider.For instance, the education sector has had teacher shortages as pe…
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Roxy Couse’s starts her mornings by getting changed into an outfit for work, picking out a bag, and putting her laptop in its cover. The 35-year-old then makes the “commute” to her workspace — a designated home office that is just a short walk in her Indiana house from where she gets ready for the day.All of these different ways to get ready for the work day have helped Couse with her self-described work-from-home fatigue.“I was in the cycle of going from bed to desk, from desk to dinner table,…
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Nicole, a third-grade teacher in New York, has bought learning worksheets and activities, multiple bins for her classroom library, flashlights for reading time, and her computer chair for her classroom over the last few years. The money for those purchases largely came out of her own pocket.Based on documentation shared with Insider, Nicole had spent a minimum of $4,000 of her own money on classroom materials and supplies since 2019. She has spent at least $400 this year on things such as a lett…
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Some engineering students would most like to work for Google, Microsoft, or BMW Group.That’s based on the World’s Most Attractive Employers report for this year from employer-branding company Universum.The newly published engineering-student ranking from the report, along with the other global rankings part of it, are based on how students of different college and university grade levels from nine economies responded. Responses are from fall 2022 to spring 2023. The US, UK, and China were three…
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Apple, Deloitte, and L’Oréal Group are three of the most highly attractive companies for business students, Universum’s newly published business-student ranking suggested.The business ranking is just one of the rankings part of the World’s Most Attractive Employers report from Universum, an employer-branding company.This year’s rankings of the World’s Most Attractive Employers are determined by survey responses from college and university students spanning nine economies. That includes the US, I…
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In 2021, Selene Da Silva was nervous to tell her employer — an independent hotel company where she felt like part of a family — that after working there since 2017 she was leaving to focus on her own business. But, instead of burning a bridge, she took the hotel on as a client.While Da Silva worked as a marketing manager for the hotel company, she balanced two side hustles: She ran her business Selene Art & Design, which offers services such as photography and graphic-design work, and picked up…
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Employers want their employees to know how to use artificial intelligence. Since ChatGPT took the web by storm last year, the pervasiveness of AI has ballooned as a pop culture fascination and a powerful workplace tool. Financial markets, too, have taken notice, with mentions of AI on earnings calls surging 366% from this year’s first quarter to the second quarter, according to a study by WallStreetZen. Karin Kimbrough, chief economist of LinkedIn, said at a fireside chat on Monday that there’s…
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With speculation of a recession looming in America’s future, many may be reexamining their expenses and budgets.The Council for Community and Economic Research, or C2ER, publishes a quarterly Cost of Living Index that illustrates how expensive it can be to live in different cities and states. The second-quarter index featured 274 urban areas, including nine in Georgia.“The Cost of Living Index measures regional differences in the cost of consumer goods and services, excluding taxes and non-consu…
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