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Artemis II’s astronauts are on their way home—a six-figure salary but no overtime or hazard pay awaits them back on Earth
All eyes were on the Artemis II astronauts yesterday as they made history looping around the far side of the moon and traveling further into space than any humans ever. But as the crew—three Americans, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—heads back to Earth, there’s no financial windfall
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MacKenzie Scott’s latest donation takes her HBCU giving to well over $1 billion
MacKenzie Scott has continued her giving spree to historically Black colleges and universities, and this time she’s crossed a milestone. One of the billionaire philanthropist’s latest gifts, a $42 million donation to Elizabeth City State University on the school’s Founders Day in North Carolina, pushes her total giving to HBCUs well past the $1 billion
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MacKenzie Scott rewrote the rules of philanthropy. Who will follow her lead?
The next wave of philanthropic courage is overdue. We need the next billionaire—or board of trustees—brave enough to say: we don’t need another five-year strategy to fix inequity. We just need to fund the people solving it right now. While MacKenzie Scott has moved billions, the silence from corporate America and traditional philanthropy is deafening. Diversity
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Lowe’s is investing $250 million to train plumbers, carpenters, and electricians as its CEO says skilled trades are ‘critical to the future’
For decades, young people were told to go to college, with white-collar jobs like coding cast as the future. But as AI disrupts that career path, skilled trades are emerging as a more resilient route to stable, well-paying work—and Lowe’s is betting heavily in that future. The home improvement giant exclusively told Fortune that its foundation
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Gen Z is rewriting the American Dream, and their parents are funding it—using tuition money for down payments, instead
The cost of college has never been higher. But for a growing share of young Americans, the return has never felt more uncertain. Faced with rising tuition, stubborn student debt, and a cooling job market, many are questioning whether a four-year degree is worth it at all. Now, their parents are coming to a similar
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon predicts AI will cut the workweek down to 3.5 days—and tells Gen Z developing EQ is more important than ever
AI is looming over many white-collar workers like a dark cloud, threatening to automate their jobs. But JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said there are sunnier days ahead thanks to the tech’s productivity gains—people will have more jobs than ever, and will be clocking in fewer hours a day. “I believe that 30 years from now,
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While other CEOs freeze entry-level roles, this AI founder is hiring Gen Z with zero experience
Gen Z can’t catch a break. They’re struggling with mass unemployment as entry-level jobs vanish. Some 40% of bosses have admitted they plan to hire even fewer grads this year because AI can do the same job cheaper, preferring instead to keep only seasoned staffers on board. But at one AI company, the less experience
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Netflix cofounder says he stopped work at 5 p.m. every Tuesday for 30 years to stay ‘sane,’ no matter the crisis: ‘Nothing got in the way of that’
Business leaders love to debate the myth of work-life balance. But for Netflix cofounder Marc Randolph, the rule was simple: every Tuesday at 5 p.m., he walked out—no matter what. “I’ve worked hard, for my entire career, to keep my life balanced with my job,” Randolph wrote in 2023 LinkedIn post that has recirculated on
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Meet a former VC who has a plan to prepare American students for an AI-disrupted future
American schools are at a crossroads. Artificial intelligence companies say their technology will completely reshape the workforce, and no one knows how, as the definition of career readiness is being rewritten. Education advocate Ted Dintersmith believes the stakes couldn’t be higher. “It’s a world where all of these jobs are going to just vanish. We
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Meet the Gen Z grads reviving accounting—colleges are reporting near-perfect placement rates at $80K starting salaries
Amid record anxiety about the future of work—and growing warnings about the potential erosion of white-collar careers—one unlikely field may be getting the last laugh. Accounting, long stereotyped as dull and tedious, has struggled for years to attract young talent. On top of a greying workforce, more than 300,000 accountants left the profession between 2019