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A Third of Lower-Income Americans Feel Stuck About Money. Most Americans Still Think They’re Doing Better Than Everyone Else.

New Pew Research Center data shows how financial strain feels from the inside: stuck, angry and sometimes ashamed for those at the bottom, content and proud for those at the top. With the midterms days away, those feelings may matter as much as the numbers.

KFC Is Going With Coke. Pepsi Has Now Lost Another Marquee Account

KFC is preparing to replace Pepsi with Coca-Cola in its U.S. restaurants, ending a decades-long beverage partnership and signaling a competitive win for Coke.

China’s Car Exports Are Rising as Its Domestic Market Shrinks

China’s automakers are leaning harder on foreign markets as home sales weaken, but the export surge is already colliding with quotas, tariffs and pressure to build cars overseas.

Gen Z Was Supposed to Rewrite Gender. Some Young Men and Women Are Reaching Back for the Old Rules.

The tradwife aesthetic and the manosphere look like separate internet cultures. New data suggests they are meeting around something larger: a growing appetite for prescribed roles at a moment when relationships, work and adulthood feel unusually uncertain.

Walmart Wants More Automated Warehouses. The Rollout Is Showing Where the Friction Lives.

Walmart is discovering that warehouse automation does not happen simply because a company buys enough robots. A Wall Street Journal investigation published October 9 describes repeated technical and financial obstacles in the retailer's effort to automate roughly 200 U.S. supply-chain buildings. The machines can struggle with cardboard boxes, oversized goods and the routine act of unpacking items for individual shipments. The stakes extend beyond engineering: Walmart's distribution network supports thousands of stores and employs more than 140,000 warehouse workers, according to the Journal. A system meant to reduce handling time is now forcing the retailer to redesign packaging, maintenance routines and jobs around what machines can actually do.

China’s Car Exports Are Rising as Its Domestic Market Shrinks

Gen Z Was Supposed to Rewrite Gender. Some Young Men and Women Are Reaching Back for the Old Rules.

Walmart Wants More Automated Warehouses. The Rollout Is Showing Where the Friction Lives.

Netflix Is Growing. It May Still Cut About 800 Jobs.

The Job Market Numbers Look Fine. The Job Market Doesn’t Feel Fine. Both Are True.

Thousands of People Are Calling Themselves Jane Doe. They Are Making Her Harder to Find.

Black Poverty Is Falling. Why Are We Still Calling This Progress?

A Third of Lower-Income Americans Feel Stuck About Money. Most Americans Still Think They’re Doing Better Than Everyone Else.

KFC Is Going With Coke. Pepsi Has Now Lost Another Marquee Account

China’s Car Exports Are Rising as Its Domestic Market Shrinks

Gen Z Was Supposed to Rewrite Gender. Some Young Men and Women Are Reaching Back for the Old Rules.

Walmart Wants More Automated Warehouses. The Rollout Is Showing Where the Friction Lives.

Netflix Is Growing. It May Still Cut About 800 Jobs.

The Job Market Numbers Look Fine. The Job Market Doesn’t Feel Fine. Both Are True.

Thousands of People Are Calling Themselves Jane Doe. They Are Making Her Harder to Find.

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Lead Story

China’s Car Exports Are Rising as Its Domestic Market Shrinks

Gen Z Was Supposed to Rewrite Gender. Some Young Men and Women Are Reaching Back for the Old Rules.

Walmart Wants More Automated Warehouses. The Rollout Is Showing Where the Friction Lives.

Netflix Is Growing. It May Still Cut About 800 Jobs.

The Job Market Numbers Look Fine. The Job Market Doesn’t Feel Fine. Both Are True.

Thousands of People Are Calling Themselves Jane Doe. They Are Making Her Harder to Find.

Black Poverty Is Falling. Why Are We Still Calling This Progress?