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☆ More Gen Zers could ditch college this fall — and some schools are worried they might never fully recover
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A college enrollment crisis is likely coming this fall. It's a result of complications with the FAFSA form, along with a lower supply of high school seniors. There's also a limited supply of high school seniors right now due to lower birth rates during the Great Recession. But the immediate enrollment shock will likely come this fall — and both students and colleges will feel the impact. AdvertisementAre you a recent high school graduate not going to college?

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☆ Containing the Middle East crisis: Inside Iran and Israel's attacks
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailContaining the Middle East crisis: Inside Iran and Israel's attacksMichael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution senior fellow, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East, efforts by the Biden administration to contain the Middle East crisis, what's next in the Israel-Hamas war, impact of the $95 billion foreign aid package on Capitol Hill, and more.

Persons: Michael O’Hanlon, Biden, what's Organizations: Brookings Institution, Capitol Locations: Iran, Israel

☆ Fact check: Biden makes false and misleading claims during Pennsylvania campaign swing
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Washington CNN —President Joe Biden spent three days this week campaigning in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. (The White House corrected the official transcript of Biden’s speech to make clear Biden should have said 2025 instead of 2024.) In other words, there will clearly still be some big and profitable corporations paying no federal income tax despite the existence of the new Biden tax. The center found that the top 0.1% of households paid an average effective federal tax rate of about 30.3% in 2020, including an average income tax rate of 24.3%. “The deficit is a trillion dollars lower, roughly, than when President Biden took office.

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☆ Private equity finds its next bet: college admissions
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Now, private equity firms are swooping in to help while taking majority stakes in exchange. Last week, the company announced that it would partner with California-based private equity firm Nexus Capital Management and move its test into a for-profit company. A company owned by private equity can obfuscate what the company actually does to the public and potentially to regulators. Private equity firms “come into industries that are already suffering from a lack of funding,” said Creeks. They’ve had a lack of funding and support and so sometimes private equity is the only viable option.

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☆ Peter Thiel says AI will be 'worse' for math nerds than for writers
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Peter Thiel discussed artificial intelligence on Wednesday's episode of "Conversations with Tyler." Thiel said Silicon Valley is "biased" toward math and a "rebalancing of our society" is overdue. AdvertisementPeter Thiel believes the expansion of artificial intelligence will be "worse" for math aficionados — not wordsmiths. Palantir, a company he cofounded in 2003, provides artificial intelligence models to world militaries like Ukraine and Israel. Business Insider outlined 10 roles that artificial intelligence will most likely replace as the sector grows in March 2024.

Persons: Peter Thiel, Tyler, Thiel, —, Tyler Cowen, Mark Muro, Muro Organizations: Service, PayPal, Getty, Brookings Institution Locations: Ukraine, Israel, Silicon Valley

☆ Shoplifting's biggest enablers might be the retailers themselves
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Alex Bitter | Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But Walmart, Target, and other chains's own policies and practices could be worsening the problem. From conflicting policies to understaffing, retailers can make it hard for workers to prevent theft. That's because major retailers, including Walmart, Target, and others, have policies that sometimes prevent their own staff from addressing shoplifting at their stores, current and former employees told Business Insider. Among the report's recommendations for retailers: Hire enough employees at stores, and make sure they aren't constantly overworked. Do you work at Walmart, Target, or another major retailer and have a story idea to share?

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☆ Israel feels it has to reciprocate now, says Brookings Senior Fellow Michael O'Hanlon
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailIsrael feels it has to reciprocate now, says Brookings Senior Fellow Michael O'HanlonMichael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution senior fellow, joins 'Fast Money' to talk escalating tensions between Iran and Israel after Iran launched drones toward the country and Israel vowed to respond.

Persons: Michael O'Hanlon Michael O’Hanlon Organizations: Brookings, Brookings Institution Locations: Iran, Israel

☆ More people are working well past retirement age. It’s not easy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

So last October, at the age of 80, Murray ended her retirement and got a job giving out samples at Costco. Forecasters expect that cohort of older , working Americans to double over the next decade. “More people are working at desk jobs that don’t require much physical labor,” said Gal Wettstein, a senior research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. “That’s people who are changing jobs, younger workers and non-college educated workers.” Older workers tend not to change jobs, and they’re more likely to have a college degree. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older in the workplace.

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☆ Office Apocalypse, New Expenses Are Wrecking Big Cities' Budgets
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Across the country, from Denver and Seattle to Washington, DC, and New York, cities are deciphering whether to slash their budgets. (Most states' fiscal years run from July 1 to June 30.) States and cities are facing pressure from societal issues that will weigh on tax revenue and increase costs for years to come. Aging populations mean a smaller percentage of the population that's of working age, putting downward pressure on tax revenue. But as federal funds have petered out, structural problems have resurfaced.

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☆ 3 Facts That Help Explain a Confusing Economic Moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Ben Casselman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The path to a “soft landing” doesn’t seem as smooth as it did four months ago. April 13, 2024The economic news of the past two weeks has been enough to leave even seasoned observers feeling whipsawed. Compared with the outlook in December, when the economy seemed to be on a glide path to a surprisingly smooth “soft landing,” the recent news has been disappointing. And yet inflation, even accounting for its recent hiccups, has cooled significantly, while the rest of the economy has so far escaped significant damage. “It seems churlish to complain about where we are right now,” said Wendy Edelberg, director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy arm of the Brookings Institution.

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☆ The city whose 'doom loop' just might be worse than San Francisco's
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

An office building in St. Louis sold for $3.6 million after selling for $205 million 18 years prior. Downtown St. Louis is filled with unoccupied buildings and an unwillingness to visit them. The steep drop in the tower's value is just one sign that St. Louis' central business district is struggling, reports say. Indeed, St. Louis' downtown resembles a ghost town with a number of boarded-up buildings, according to The Wall Street Journal's Konrad Putzier. AdvertisementThe problem with Midwestern cities, like St. Louis, is that there's not much attracting people to the center of the city — and that applies to commuters, tourists, and residents.

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☆ Tycoon’s death penalty in $12.5 billion fraud case highlights Vietnam’s corruption crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Heather Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The scale of the fraud was said to be equivalent to roughly 3% of Vietnam’s economy. Though widely considered ceremonial, the presidency is one of the top three positions in Vietnam’s political hierarchy after the CPV’s Secretary General, currently Nguyen Phu Trong. In fact, the International Monetary Fund expects Vietnam’s economy to grow by 5.8% this year, compared to 4.6% for China. Their fate remains unclear, given the highly secretive nature of Vietnam’s political system. But Vietnamese political experts said a permanent appointment would not end the instability.

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☆ That Giant College ‘Sticker’ Price Isn’t What Most Students Pay
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Ann Carrns | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Families with college-bound students may well have shuddered when they heard that the official, full cost of a year at some four-year private schools will soon hit six figures. But outrage over mushrooming college “sticker” prices clouds a reality that some families may not fully understand: Few students pay the full price. On average, private nonprofit colleges cut tuition by more than half for first-time undergraduates, according to a recent report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers. That means college sticker prices — the full “cost of attendance” that the federal government requires colleges to publish — are an increasingly unreliable indicator of what a family will pay, according to a report titled, in part, “Ignore the Sticker Price,” and published Friday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. That goes for both low- and middle-income families, as well as for higher-income families that don’t qualify for need-based aid.

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The Denver-Boulder metro region in Colorado is among the winners in the migration shuffle. Led by Denver and Boulder, Colorado has built a thriving tech industry ecosystem attracting both startups and tech giants — Google, Amazon and Salesforce all now have a major presence in the area. CNBCOver the last five years, about $17 billion in VC funding has poured into the area, according to research firm CB Insights. While the Denver startup community has seen dramatic expansion, it hasn't made as much progress on diversifying its business community. However, even the top 10 cities for Black-owned business growth in the study fall far short of corresponding metro population metrics.

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☆ Every month, economists expect the labor market to slow. Will it ever?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Almost every month, economists expect the hot US labor market to start showing signs of exhaustion. The booming labor market has to run out of gas eventually, right? Enjoy it while it lastsHistorically speaking, there’s only so long a really good labor market can last until, for instance, a recession or tighter financial conditions disrupt it. Taken together, that could mean the life expectancy of the current labor market isn’t very long. One big reason why the labor market continues to defy expectations is the result of a surge in immigration over the past year.

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☆ Why some people feel good about their bank accounts but bad about the economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-07 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

A recent Wall Street Journal poll of American voters in swing states found that while people think the national economy is in bad shape, they feel good about their personal finances. In Gallup polling from last April, just 16% rated the economy as “good” or “excellent,” but 45% said their personal finances were “good” or “excellent.”But according to available data the economy has improved. But the dichotomy between how people feel about their own finances and the economy at large presents a different conundrum. It’s important to look at consumer behavior and not just sentiment when determining how Americans feel about the economy, said Harris. Those behaviors signal that Americans, overall, actually feel pretty good about their economy.

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☆ March jobs report comes in hot: The US economy added 303,000 positions last month
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Instead, on Friday, yet another jobs report defied expectations. “Today’s jobs report raises the possibility that rather than slowing down, job growth might be holding steady,” Nick Bunker, Indeed Hiring Lab’s economic research director for North America, said in a statement. Last month’s job growth was driven by industries such as health care (+72,300 jobs); government (+71,000 jobs); leisure and hospitality (+49,000 jobs); and construction (+39,000 jobs). President Joe Biden touted March’s jobs report Friday. With today’s report of 303,000 new jobs in March, we have passed the milestone of 15 million jobs created since I took office.

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If she does not course-correct, she’s headed for another shellacking by the circuit – and possible removal from the case. That statute outlines the parameters between a president’s official and personal records, and sets up processes for how official documents are preserved. If this were true, the mere fact that Trump took the documents with him from the White House would inherently turn them into personal records. Importantly, Smith asked Cannon to let both parties know “promptly” how she viewed the law. Ejecting her from the case would be extremely unusual and Smith does not mention seeking it in his papers.

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☆ There might be a better way for colleges to honor legacies without giving them preference in admissions
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementUsing 2021-2022 admissions data from the Common Data Set — a College Board Initiative — the report found that selective and private colleges were most likely to use legacy preference in their admissions. The University of Nebraska, for example, offers $14,000 a year for legacy students from out-of-state. Another example is Drake University, which offers a $2,500 per year award to legacy students. Business Insider has previously reported on the precedent continued legacy preference is setting for the future of higher education. AdvertisementMurphy said he's most worried about legacy preference in admissions, and while legacy scholarships might not send the best message, "if every college in the country drops legacy preferences and hold on to legacy scholarships, I'm fine with that."

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☆ Mark Cuban won't vote for Trump for 1 big reason: turnover rate
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Trump White House experienced a record turnover rate, a Brookings Institution study showed. Billionaire Mark Cuban says that's one reason he won't vote for Donald Trump. Still, those numbers reflect a relatively stable presidency — especially, as Cuban noted, when comparing the turnover rate to Trump's White House. According to the study, that was the highest first-year turnover rate for any presidency in at least four decades. By the end of his administration, the Trump White House saw a 92% turnover rate during his time in office.

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☆ American Families Look Different Now. Good.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

In 1970, more than two-thirds of American adults between 25 and 49 lived with a spouse and at least one kid. For a society structured around the ideal of the nuclear family, its demise has left everyone wondering: What happens now? Without one partner focused on full-time housekeeping, the amount of work required to run a nuclear family isn't really feasible. It doesn't take much of a mental leap to see why capitalism and the nuclear family make for such cozy bedfellows. Coontz, a leading historian of the American family, notes that every family structure comes with its own set of distinct weaknesses, strengths, and possibilities.

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☆ Why we don't actually know whether retail theft is a big problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But a new report suggests we don't know whether organized retail crime is a big problem or not. "Organized retail crime," "retail theft," and similar terms don't correspond with categories that local police departments use to categorize crimes, Hanna Love, a fellow at Brookings, told Business Insider. It's unclear what makes organized retail crime "different than, say, other instances of shoplifting" from a data perspective, Love said. The NRF has said that it took back the estimate due to an error by an outside analyst who contributed to its report on organized retail crime. About fourteen states passed new laws on retail theft in 2022 and 2023, Stateline reported in December.

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☆ How to Talk to Children About Cancer
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Talya Minsberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has started preventative chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday. “It has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family,” Catherine said in the video. She said that it has taken time to recover from surgery to start treatment for her cancer. Children, especially younger children, consider their parents a steady rock, she said. If something disrupts that stability — “even if it’s a manageable cancer — to a child’s ears, wow, that is scary.”

Persons: Catherine, Princess of Wales, ” Catherine, George, Charlotte, Louis, Kathy Hirsh, Pasek Organizations: Temple University, Brookings Institution . Children

☆ US Marines don skis in joint NATO exercises in the critical Arctic battleground
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Last month, II MEF attended a 10-day training course in the hills near the Norwegian town of Setermoen. "I think that's one of the things that we see with our marines and sailors in this training," said II MEF commander, Lt. AdvertisementThe II MEF, the US military's rapid response group, was ordered to delay the hypothetical enemy so that "reinforcements" had time to arrive. The Arctic is a key locationThe Arctic itself is already a critical region for Russia and NATO. AdvertisementPutin has snapped back at the West following French President Emmanuel Macron's suggestions that NATO could send troops to Ukraine.

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☆ Teacher Shortages in America Are Holding Gen Z Students Like Me Back
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Vaishnavi Kumbala | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AdvertisementWhile teachers, students, and parents have all tried their best to make it work, many students still end up with huge learning gaps. Teacher shortages tend to be framed as a workplace problem: We just need to incentivize and support teachers better. AdvertisementWhen teacher shortages compound, some students just stop showing up. Even before COVID, students struggled to remember concepts they learned in a previous course — but the teacher shortages have exacerbated the problem. If America doesn't address its teacher shortages today, it will be left with a worse, less educated tomorrow.

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