A plain week-by-week walk through an unemployment claim: who qualifies, what a weekly check pays, the rules, and when the money runs out.
Jay Douglas · October 4, 2026The jobs least exposed to automation share a small set of skills. Here is what they are, and which occupations run on them.
Sofia Lindqvist · October 3, 2026
The skills employers praise in interviews are often the ones a food bank or a nonprofit board teaches for free.
Jay Douglas · October 1, 2026
Tips, documents, denials and legal review: the slow, unglamorous stages behind the investigative stories readers eventually see.
David Jordan · September 30, 2026
Most companies hand over a laptop and hope. The evidence says the first three months decide far more than that.
Sofia Lindqvist · September 21, 2026
In the largest published UK pilot, 56 of 61 companies kept the shorter week after the trial ended — and the measured effects on revenue, sick days, and quitting ran in one direction.
Sofia Lindqvist · August 28, 2026Sixty days' notice is the whole of the federal promise — and the record shows how often it is narrower, shorter, or unenforced than the phrase suggests.
Sofia Lindqvist · August 21, 2026Pilots from the U.K. to U.S. local government documented stable output on fewer days, and the companies that kept it reveal the pattern behind the promises.
Sofia Lindqvist · July 23, 2026
Thirteen cases is not an outbreak. The state's advice to communities is about what happens next, in classrooms and households.
Hana Kimura · September 29, 2026
Resilient towns are rarely rescued by one big employer. They are built from ordinary institutions that keep money, information and people circulating locally.
Hana Kimura · September 27, 2026
More than 200 US counties now have no local news outlet at all, and the counties losing newsrooms are disproportionately poorer and older — a documented market failure with civic bills that arrive later.
Hana Kimura · August 26, 2026
As Amazon, JPMorgan and a wave of other employers end hybrid work, the coffee shops, lunch counters and dry cleaners ringing their office towers are the first to feel the difference.
Hana Kimura · August 12, 2026
Most impact reports count activity. A smaller number measure change. Here is how to tell the difference before you give.
Jay Douglas · September 14, 2026
Federal law gives most large employers a fixed 60-day window to warn workers before a plant closes or a mass layoff hits. California adds its own version, with its own math on what workers are owed when a company skips it.
Jay Douglas · August 15, 2026Tech companies promised to skill the workforces their tools would change, and the documented record shows what the billions bought and whom they reached.
Jay Douglas · August 10, 2026Companies announce hundreds of millions after every hurricane and wildfire, and the follow-through audits document the gap between the press release and the check.
Jay Douglas · July 18, 2026
The film is on North American digital platforms now. Here is what it is, who made it, and what the casting choice means for audiences.
David Jordan · September 26, 2026
How a newspaper section built on weddings and debutante balls grew into the civic reporting on wages, evictions and benefits that readers see today.
David Jordan · September 23, 2026Why the announcement page survived the internet, and what it costs to appear there now.
Sofia Lindqvist · September 22, 2026Federal law lets laid-off workers keep their employer health plan for up to 18 months. It says nothing about making the premium affordable.
David Jordan · August 19, 2026
Boeing announced plans in October 2024 to cut about 17,000 jobs — one in ten employees — while 33,000 machinists were on strike over wages, a collision of a restructuring and a walkout with consequences already reaching supplier towns.
Jay Douglas · August 24, 2026
A financing tool built to help owners sell small businesses to their own employees has been gutted by a citizenship-verification rule, the nonprofit that helped design the program says.
Jay Douglas · August 10, 2026Nearly eight hundred thousand franchise establishments employ millions, and the documented economics of ownership, fees, labor, and the joint-employer fight, define who profits.
Jay Douglas · August 5, 2026Corporations spent billions directing procurement to minority- and women-owned firms, and after 2023 the programs retreated faster than the announcements that built them.
Jay Douglas · July 14, 2026