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Gen Z doesn’t want your full-time job. They want several part-time roles, and it’s reshaping the entire workforce
The full-time job is often the most coveted form of work for employees; it often ensures stability, benefits, close relationships, and with time, it often guarantees more freedom. But Gen Z is ditching that workplace ideal. A new study from workforce management firm Deputy entitled “The Big Shift 2026” found that poly-employment, or what the…
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75% of Gen Z equate desk jobs with burnout and instability—and 1 in 4 are picking up a toolbelt instead
Desk jobs were once the golden ticket to steady pay, job security, and a career you could build a life around. But Gen Z isn’t so sure anymore. They’ve watched millennials do everything right, and still end up ground down, in debt, or laid off. And to top it off, they’re consistently being warned that…
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Self-made billionaire MrBeast says his work-life balance is nonexistent and calls it a ‘miracle’ if he works less than 15 hour days: ‘I live to work’
Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has spent the past decade climbing to the top of online content. Now one of the most popular creators in the world, he boasts a record 476 million subscribers on YouTube alone—fueled by increasingly extreme stunts from spending a week living in a cave to even being buried in…
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Housing is so expensive, even a $87 billion Wall Street bank is giving workers $6.5K in cash to get on the property ladder
American workers are up against a housing crisis so dire that many have written off their dream of homeownership altogether. Now, one Wall Street employer is stepping in to help their wish come true with thousand-dollar payouts. The oldest bank in the U.S, $87 billion financial services firm Bank of New York (BNY), has just…
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Only 22% of people felt their jobs were safe in 2025—manufacturers, warehouse workers, and women are the most scared
The labor market is growing more uncertain: companies are laying off staffers in droves, job openings have screeched to a halt, and unemployment has been ticking up. It’s left very few workers confident that their livelihoods are on solid ground. Only 22% of workers globally strongly agreed that their jobs were safe from elimination in…
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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…