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An unemployed UX designer, Lei had taken it upon herself to create the perfect work bag. Today, Lei is the 28-year-old CEO and founder of Freja, a New York-based company that sells work totes, shoulder purses and travel accessories. A 'really, really slow' startIn February 2019, Lei was a soon-to-be-unemployed graduate student at Cornell University preparing for a job interview in New York. She tried pairing three different work bags with her outfit, and none of them worked. "It was really, really slow for the first two years," says Lei.

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☆ 4 major wins for YIMBYs on election night — and one loss
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Many of the efforts were focused on allocating more funds for affordable housing. They voted for a slew of measures, most of which will create additional funding for affordable housing. Affordable housing bonds in Rhode Island, North Carolina, and BaltimoreSeveral cities and states along the East Coast voted on Tuesday to fund affordable housing bonds. Proponents of stricter rent control say preventing landlords from price gauging is key to protecting the most vulnerable tenants. Freemark argued that it's unclear what the mixed results on rent control mean for the pro-housing movement.

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☆ Meet the Gen-Zers and millennials working summer jobs on top of their 9-to-5s: 'It's helped me feel happier, more relaxed.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Laquintano, 28, started working there with her older sister when she was 16 to kill time while she was off school. She works at Rita's with her younger brother, Andrew, who is home from college for the summer. As a remote employee, Fullerton says working at Bird & Betty's has also given him a much-needed social outlet. Oddly enough, working more has helped me feel happier, more relaxed." Alvarado spends her summers working as a camp counselor at the Kickapoo Kamp for Girls in Kerrville, Texas.

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☆ I quit corporate and turned my side hustle into a 6-figure dream career — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

When I took my side hustle full-time, I started making around $125,000 more than my last salary. AdvertisementI started music as a side hustle in March 2019I've played the piano for 21 years and the alto saxophone for 18. I was fortunate to still have a paycheck and work from home when most full-time event industry professionals were shut down completely. AdvertisementA surge of events started in 2021, and I knew I made the right decision to leave the 9-5 world the previous October. If I had let a few hundred dollars a month of health insurance hold me back from quitting my full-time job, I would never have had all these incredible experiences.

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☆ Where to Watch July 4 Fireworks Around New York City
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Alyce Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Members of the public can watch free of charge from spots along Hudson River and areas of New Jersey. Other fireworks shows will take place on Staten Island, in Coney Island, in Westchester County and at Jones Beach on Long Island. The Macy’s fireworks will be launched from barges positioned on the river between West 14th and West 34th Streets. The best spots to watch from will be in Manhattan along the West Side Highway between those streets, or across the river near the New Jersey waterfront in Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City. There are five places where the public can enter the West Side Highway to watch the show.

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And they were everywhere, although, naturally, New York City was a magnet, as it has always been for L.G.B.T.Q.+ people looking for a place in which they can be themselves. New York City was where you lost your soul, and we wanted to be closer to the earth. I wore an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall Statue of Liberty costume to the Easter Parade in New York City, and Kirsten came along with me. By the time I turned 30, I’d been telling people I was older for years, because I’m not the type to bemoan the loss of my youth. Going to New York felt like this moment of emerging to a wider audience, and then I started to travel a lot.

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☆ Bob Menendez's congressman son survives fight of his political life amid father's 'gold bars' corruption scandal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Rob Menendez — the son of Sen. Bob Menendez — just survived a tough primary challenge. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . It's a significant victory for the younger Menendez, who had found himself in the fight of his life amid his father's lurid corruption scandal. Sen. Menendez has been accused of accepting bribes in the form of wads of cash and gold bars in exchange for, among other things, acting as a foreign agent. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Rob Menendez —, Sen, Bob Menendez —, Ravi Bhalla, —, Rob Menendez, Menendez Organizations: Hoboken, Service, Rob Menendez of New, Democratic, Associated Press, Business Locations: New Jersey, Rob Menendez of, Rob Menendez of New Jersey

☆ New Jersey 8th Congressional District Primary Election Results
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Representative Rob Menendez faces a tough primary challenge from Ravi Bhalla, the mayor of Hoboken. Mr. Menendez’s opponents have sought to capitalize on the travails of his father, Senator Robert Menendez, who is on trial on bribery charges.

Persons: Rob Menendez, Ravi Bhalla, Menendez’s, Robert Menendez Locations: Hoboken, Mr

☆ NICE's CEO says AI is 'the ultimate alchemist' that can transform customer-experience solutions
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Erica Sweeney | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The software company NICE launched Enlighten AI to improve customer service and clients' efficiency. Eilam said Enlighten AI "dramatically improves" productivity and efficiency for customer-experience teams by automating many labor-intensive tasks, such as note-taking during customer-service calls. Enlighten Autopilot, one of the products within NICE's Enlighten AI for CX repository, enhances self-service with an AI-powered virtual assistant. Many existing customers are adding Enlighten AI to their portfolios, and NICE is attracting new customers with its AI capabilities. The organization implemented Enlighten AI to monitor 100% of its customer interactions and gather insights about the behaviors influencing customer sentiment.

Persons: —, We've, Barak Eilam, Eilam, Copilot, What's Organizations: NICE, Service, Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering, Business, Republic Services, Open Network Exchange, ONE, BI Locations: Hoboken , New Jersey

☆ Bob Menendez: 4 questions that could determine his legal – and political – fate
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York are fighting a legal battle on two fronts. The government’s ability to sketch a clear and convincing picture for the jury despite these growing constraints will likely determine Menendez’s legal fate. “(She) communicated with the bribe payers, she passed messages to Menendez, and she collected some of the bribes,” Pomerantz said. Rob Menendez – rotten to the core.”Menendez Jr. directly addressed that line of attack in a recent spot of his own. But for Menendez, the senator and father, the will of the 8th District’s primary voters could weigh heavily on his political future – and legacy.

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☆ Trains Suspended Between New York and Philadelphia After Power Outage
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Christopher Maag | More About Christopher Maag | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

All trains between New York and Philadelphia were suspended on Wednesday evening because of fallen electrical wires that power the trains at Pennsylvania Station, according to Amtrak. The power outage stopped Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains, an Amtrak spokesman, Jason Abrams, said in an email. The power outage started at 5:05 p.m., Mr. Abrams said, adding that crews were working to restore power. Riders on New Jersey Transit will have their tickets and passes honored on PATH trains, which are running between Manhattan and New Jersey, according to a spokesman for New Jersey Transit. To avoid Penn Station, travelers also may take a ferry to Hoboken, where six New Jersey Transit lines offer service.

Persons: Jason Abrams, Abrams Organizations: Pennsylvania, Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, Penn, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Riders, PATH, Jersey Transit Locations: New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Long, New, Manhattan, Hoboken, Jersey

☆ What Walmart's RTO mandate is really about
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Dominick Reuter | Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Walmart's chief people officer, Donna Morris, commented similarly in a memo announcing the layoffs and relocations earlier that week. She wrote that working in an office would help workers collaborate, innovate, and "move even faster." Still, some employees continued working remotely, and several satellite offices remained open in cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Toronto, and Seattle. He also said he doesn't think the company is using this RTO mandate as a cover for achieving cost savings through workforce reductions, commonly referred to as "quiet firing," but that it's more part of Walmart's ethos. For the remote worker BI spoke with, the next few weeks will be filled with uncertainty.

Persons: —, it's, Sam Walton, Nelson Lichtenstein, Doug McMillon, Donna Morris, Morris, Suresh Kumar, Walmart's, Kumar, Kelli Oakes, she'd, I'm, Oakes, Lichtenstein, there's, Gartner Organizations: Service, Walmart, Business, University of California, Executives, BI, Home, LinkedIn, Walmart Global Tech, Sam's Club, UC Locations: Arkansas, Bentonville , Arkansas, New York, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Bentonville, Atlanta, Dallas, Toronto, Seattle, Bay, Hoboken , New Jersey, South Carolina, Northwest Arkansas

☆ The pandemic has changed when Americans expect to retire
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Most non-retired adults have some type of retirement savings, but only 36% think their savings are on track. New research from economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that this retirement savings deficit hasn’t made a dent in when Americans plan to exit, or partially exit, the workforce. “The pandemic-induced change in retirement expectations may continue to affect the labor market in years to come,” they wrote. Yes, but: This is a survey of expectations, researchers at the New York Fed are quick to point out. Just because Americans say they plan to shift to part-time work or retire early, it doesn’t mean that they’ll be able to.

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☆ Walmart to reportedly lay off hundreds of corporate staff and relocate others
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs and asking most remote workers to move to offices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Walmart will still let staff work remotely part time, as long as they are in offices a majority of the time, the report said. Walmart employed approximately 2.1 million associates as of Jan. 31, 2024, according to regulatory filings. In February 2023, it shut three of its U.S. technology hubs and asked hundreds of workers to relocate to keep their jobs, pushing for more employees to report to work from office. Walmart didn't immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Persons: Walmart didn't Organizations: Walmart, Wall Street Locations: Dallas , Atlanta, Toronto, Bentonville, Hoboken, Southern California

☆ Walmart is laying off, relocating hundreds of corporate workers across the country. Read the memo
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Melissa Repko | In Melissa-Repko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Walmart is laying off hundreds of corporate workers across the country as it relocates many employees to its Arkansas headquarters. The majority of employees working remotely and in offices in Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto have been asked to relocate. Walmart is the nation's largest private employer with about 1.6 million employees, most of whom work at its stores across the country. Walmart has another reason to bring more employees to Bentonville: It is building a nearly 350-acre campus there. In February 2022, we made the decision to bring Home Office associates back into our campus offices.

Persons: Donna Morris Organizations: Walmart, Walmart Health, Street Journal, Home Office, Toronto Global Tech, Office Locations: Arkansas, Bentonville , Arkansas, Dallas , Atlanta, Toronto, San Francisco Bay, Hoboken , New Jersey, Arkansas , Florida, Georgia , Illinois, Texas, Bentonville, Morris, Hoboken, New York

☆ Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, relocating majority of remote office staff
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Parija Bhatnagar | Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Walmart said Tuesday it is eliminating several hundred corporate jobs and will relocate most of its remaining remote office staff to its Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters. Walmart confirmed the move in a memo sent by Donna Morris, its chief people officer, to employees on Tuesday and obtained by CNN. The relocation will impact the majority of workers in Walmart’s Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto offices. While most relocations will be to its Bentonville headquarters, some workers will be relocated to Walmart offices in the San Francisco Bay Area or to Hoboken, New Jersey, and the New York area. “In addition, some parts of our business have made changes that will result in a reduction of several hundred campus roles,” Morris said in the memo.

Persons: Donna Morris, Morris, ”, ” Morris Organizations: New, New York CNN, Walmart, CNN, San Francisco Bay Area Locations: New York, Bentonville , Arkansas, Walmart’s Dallas, Atlanta, Toronto, Bentonville, San Francisco Bay, Hoboken , New Jersey

☆ Inside Rep. Rob Menendez's fight to be more than a 'nepo baby'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

"I don't have the capacity to think through, well, what if, what if, what if," Menendez told me. Mayor Bhalla told me that he began contemplating his primary challenge shortly after the elder Menendez was first indicted in September. AdvertisementSitting in his recently opened campaign office, the mayor told me that the most important facet of his candidacy was his fight against New Jersey's party boss-driven political culture. "Everything here is a headline or a deadline driving the process," Councilman Paul Presinzano said of Mayor Bhalla. Menendez looks on as Bhalla's opening remarks at a Jersey City candidate forum are filmed by a cameraman.

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☆ This state is one of the last strongholds for machine politics. That's about to change.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

At the end of March, a federal judge sided with Kim, blocking Democrats from using the so-called "county line" system in the state's upcoming June primaries. That's set to bring a stark change to the way ballots look — and potentially, a total overhaul in the state's political culture. AdvertisementHere's what to know about the "county line" and why it may be going away for good. A 2020 Democratic primary ballot in Mercer County, New Jersey. "I think you'll see a more candidate-centric politics," said Jersey City Councilman James Solomon, a longtime opponent of the county-line system.

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☆ I'm a high school senior who commutes an hour by train to school every day. It's helped prepare me for the real world.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Teddy Almond | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Four years ago, I started commuting to my high school — which is an hour away — by train. But that ended when I started high school at The Hudson School, which is 25 miles away from my home in Madison, New Jersey. AdvertisementNow that I'm a high school senior, I look back fondly on my four-year commute. AdvertisementI imagined how much easier it would be if I were a regular high school student who took the bus to school. Still, I'm glad I got to commute 25 miles every day before heading off to collegeLooking back at the past four years, I realize commuting has helped prepare me for the real world — outside high school.

Persons: —, COVID, didn't, I'm Organizations: Service, The Hudson School, Hudson School, New Jersey Transit Locations: Madison , New Jersey, New, Europe, Hoboken

☆ Rare 4.8-magnitude earthquake leaves little damage after rattling Northeast
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Ray Sanchez | Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

She found her neighbors describing the same rattling, realizing they had experienced an earthquake in a suburb about 20 miles east of New York City. New York City Mayor Eric Adams urged New Yorkers to "go about their normal day.” Brittainy Newman/APUSGS said the earthquake occurred at 10:23 a.m. Three neighboring homes in Newark, New Jersey, were evacuated after residents reported structural damage, according to the city’s public safety director. Good quality New York moment.”In Jersey City, New Jersey, Kristina Fiore was sitting at her desk in her apartment when her building shook for a few seconds. The epicenter was just northeast of Lebanon, New Jersey, less than 50 miles west of New York City, according to the USGS.

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☆ How Donald Trump, Joe Biden and grassroots liberals could upend Democratic politics in one of the country’s bluest states
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Gregory Krieg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Menendez announced Thursday that he would not run for reelection in the Democratic primary but again left open the possibility of an independent bid this summer. New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim greets supporters outside the Bergen County Democratic convention in Paramus on March 4, 2024. “Corrupt systems like the ‘county line’ in New Jersey (is) an enemy because that dissuades folks from actually getting involved. Kim speaks to delegates during the Bergen County Democratic convention in Paramus, New Jersey, on March 4, 2024. In Camden County, where the local boss keeps a tighter grip, video of another Senate candidate, progressive Patricia Campos-Medina, being blocked from entering the county Democratic convention went viral.

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☆ This century-old 1 bathroom house took $11,000 worth of staging, attracted 25 bids, and sold for $253,000 above its asking price
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. "I grew up in Nutley," Lorraine Hurlbut , the listing agent for the home who works with Keller Williams NJ Metro Group, told Business Insider. Advertisement“We have New Yorkers, people from Hudson County that live in Jersey City and Hoboken come,” to buy homes in Nutley, Hurlbut said. With 15 bids received, the home's sale price soared by over 40% of the asking price — setting a record in Nutley, Hurlbut told NJ.com. “I don't do minimal staging,” Hurlbut told Business Insider.

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☆ More pedestrians were killed on Los Angeles' Vermont Avenue than in the state of Vermont in 2022 — and it's become an ad for a measure to make streets safer
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

It's deadly — especially for anyone attempting to walk or bike the city streets. More people are killed in traffic accidents in LA than in any other city in the US — and things are headed in the wrong direction. A billboard on Vermont Avenue — a 23-mile long north-south thoroughfare — blasts a chilling statistic: more pedestrians were killed on that road than in the state of Vermont in 2022. Seven pedestrians were killed in the state, while eight people were killed on the LA road with the same name. Advertisementfact check: sad, but true pic.twitter.com/re4AZduiTK — Yes on Measure HLA (@healthystreetla) January 16, 2024The avenue is among the deadliest in LA and has a few of the most dangerous intersections in LA County.

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☆ Meet the typical American moving to — and leaving — New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

People moving to New York are younger, make slightly more, and rent more than those leaving. 545,600 people moved from New York between 2021 and 2022, while 301,500 people moved into New York. Advertisement"When I came into office, we had a clear agenda, and then we also not only executed on that, but we actually spent money and time in marketing the city outside of just Jersey City," Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop told BI last September. The typical person moving to New YorkThose moving to New York tended to be younger than those moving away. Since many are moving to New York City, over 78% rented, and among the 22% of homeowners, the average home value was $671,900.

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☆ A US vet wanted to retire in Bangkok. Less than 2 years later, he realized city life wasn't for him and built a home with his fiancée by the sea.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Joe Green and Gift Prakaew gave up Bangkok city life to live in a seaside town in Central Thailand. Joe Green/Thai Girl Gift and Foreigner JoeThe allure of the countrysideThe couple ended up buying a plot of land for $40,000. Joe Green/Thai Girl Gift and Foreigner JoeThe couple's bedroom faces a mountain, and the sea is a five-minute walk away, he said. Joe Green/Thai Girl Gift and Foreigner JoeThe couple worked with a builder and an architect to build their home. Joe Green/Thai Girl Gift and Foreigner JoeOn the other hand, the cost of living in Thailand is "reasonable," he added.

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