For six decades, the federal government has required large employers to disclose who works for them and where those employees sit within the organizational hierarchy. Now, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is proposing to eliminate that requirement—potentially making workplace discrimination significantly harder to detect and nearly impossible to prove at scale. The EEOC voted 2–1…
For most of the last two decades, the American labor market told Black families a story simple enough to organize a life around: get the degree, and the odds improve. That story is now under revision, and the revision is being reported as good news. The Wall Street Journal, drawing on a new analysis from…
The Atlanta Regional Commission has put a number on the region’s housing shortfall, and the number is roughly 200,000 affordable homes. That figure anchors Housing Forward 2035, the plan the ARC unveiled this week, and it will now move through a series of board reviews ahead of formal adoption in late 2026 or early 2027….
There are two defensible ways to measure whether Americans are falling behind on their credit cards, and right now they tell opposite stories. The first is the stock measure: what share of outstanding credit card balances is ninety or more days delinquent at a given moment. By that measure, distress has climbed sharply. Between the…
The gig economy changed where work happens faster than labor law changed its definition of a workplace. India’s platform economy has turned the road into a workplace. Food couriers, ride-hailing drivers and delivery workers spend their shifts moving through traffic, heat, rain, customer doorsteps and public sidewalks. The protections attached to that work have not…
A proposed Treasury rule would tie federal tax exemption to how private schools treat race. The mechanism is the story: not a prohibition, but a price. The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed a regulation Thursday that would deny or revoke 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status for private educational institutions that adopt, maintain or enforce…
Federal food assistance cuts are pushing Texas campuses out of the program that fed every student automatically. A new state law fills part of the gap — for families who complete the paperwork. Access Shift Last school year, nearly every campus in the Houston Independent School District served free breakfast and lunch to every student,…
About 71 million Africans ages 15 to 24 are outside employment, education or training. Among young people who do have jobs, informality and working poverty reveal a second problem: employment is not delivering economic mobility. Roughly 70.9 million young Africans ages 15 to 24 were neither employed nor enrolled in education or training in 2025, according…
Two farewell letters, one to Apple’s customers and one to its employees, show a departing CEO building his own record. What the letters include is genuinely moving. What they leave out is where the story is. John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Monday, ending Tim Cook’s fifteen years in the job. Cook stays…
The Venice Film Festival remains an awards-season launchpad. But fewer major Hollywood productions are creating room for something else: films centered on war, migration, political power and instability. The 83rd Venice International Film Festival opens Wednesday with noticeably less Hollywood product than the event has carried in recent years. Festival director Alberto Barbera attributes the…