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….
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…
LayoffAlert.org reported that through July 2026, employers filed 2,954 WARN Act notices across 44 states affecting 270,641 employees. Skillsyncer’s tracker, counting the same year, logged 322 layoff events affecting 205,832 workers. Layoffhedge counted 25 companies and 13,532 jobs for July alone, while Layoffs.fyi put tech sector eliminations at 121,326. Four counts, four methods, four numbers…
According to multiple layoff tracking sources, the U.S. accounted for 121,072 tech job cuts in 2026, with 54% of those layoffs explicitly citing AI and automation as contributing factors. Oracle alone eliminated 30,000 positions. Meta notified 8,000 employees—roughly 10% of its workforce—that their positions were eliminated. Microsoft laid off 4,800. Manufacturing shed 68,000 jobs during…
Bloomberg reported on July 17 that the Trump administration is reviewing a proposal, developed with input from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to create an independent regulator for artificial intelligence modeled on FINRA, the industry-funded body that polices Wall Street brokerages under Securities and Exchange Commission oversight. The new agency would report to the SEC and…
Bloomberg reported this week that hiring managers are increasingly alarmed that job candidates are using AI to pass interviews — answering questions in real time with chatbot assistance — only to arrive on the job and underperform against whatever the interview was supposed to measure. The response from some employers has escalated to the point…
Charlotte, North Carolina is home to Bank of America, Truist, Wells Fargo’s East Coast operations, and a growing fintech sector — the second-largest banking center in the United States by assets. It is also ranked 50th out of 50 major metros for economic mobility by Harvard researcher Raj Chetty’s Opportunity Insights project, as reported by…
India’s Code on Social Security formally recognized gig and platform workers for the first time. As of mid-2025, fewer than 340,000 of the country’s 12 million gig workers had enrolled in the system created to protect them. India’s gig workforce grew from 7.7 million workers in fiscal year 2021 to 12 million in fiscal year…
The Culinary Workers Union ratified a contract guaranteeing six months of benefits and severance for workers displaced by AI. That number is either a floor to build on or a ceiling that defines what workers can expect when the machines arrive. The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 represents approximately 60,000 hospitality workers across Las Vegas….