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☆ The $65 Million Perk for CEOs: Personal Use of the Corporate Jet Has Soared
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Theo Francis | Stephanie Stamm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

One of the flashiest executive perks has roared back since the onset of the pandemic: free personal travel on the company jet. Companies in the S&P 500 spent $65 million for executives to use corporate jets for personal travel in 2022, up about 50% from prepandemic levels three years earlier, a Wall Street Journal analysis found. Early signs suggest the trend continued last year.

Organizations: Companies

Looking to get promoted quickly or avoid being underpaid? Then find companies where managers rise through the ranks, where promotions come with bigger pay bumps, or where employees stick around and build careers. That information has been hard for employees to find. A new ranking of Fortune 500 companies seeks to help job-hunters avoid dead-end jobs. The 2023 American Opportunity Index rates companies by how well they help employees, especially those without college degrees, move into better, high-paying jobs.

Organizations: Fortune

☆ Why Third-Party Candidates Threaten Biden in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Aaron Zitner | Stephanie Stamm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

President Biden and Donald Trump, the likely contenders for the White House next year, are about evenly divided in polling. In a head-to-head race, many polls find an outright tie, with few voters undecided. Most voters, however, will have several choices beyond Trump and Biden—a fact that isn’t reflected in many public-opinion polls. When polls do offer a larger slate of options, Biden often loses the most support to those additional candidates or to “undecided” status, giving Trump an edge.

Persons: Biden, Donald Trump Organizations: White, Trump

☆ Grand Old Party: How Aging Makes You More Conservative
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Dante Chinni | Stephanie Stamm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

One of the most durable forces shaping the U.S. electorate is that voters tend to lean more Republican as they age. But it also matters where they begin on the political spectrum, and there are indications that millennials and the oldest members of Generation Z started out more liberal than prior generations. That has made them a crucial base of support for Democrats, even as some other groups of voters have moved away from the party.

Persons: Z

☆ How Crops Survived Drought, Deluge and the Hottest Summer on Record
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Stephanie Stamm | Patrick Thomas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones

DES MOINES, Iowa—Republican presidential hopefuls are now barnstorming early voting states, answering voter questions at town hall meetings and trying to win over enough donors to qualify for the first debate. None of that may compare to the political obstacle course that is the Iowa State Fair, which starts Thursday and is expected to attract a dozen or so presidential candidates.

Organizations: DES, Republican, Fair Locations: DES MOINES, Iowa

Organizations: DES, Republican, Fair Locations: DES MOINES, Iowa

☆ See How Deep the Missing Titan Submersible and Wreck of the Titanic Are
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Adrienne Tong | Stephanie Stamm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rescue efforts continue in the search for a missing submersible, known as the Titan, carrying five people who disappeared days earlier on a mission to see the remains of the Titanic shipwreck. The wreckage is about 13,000 feet beneath the surface in the North Atlantic, just over 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod.

Locations: Cape Cod

For many Americans, Mother’s Day means flowers. And flowers are a big business. Here’s a guide to how we spend our money on the perennial gift, plus advice for finding the best blooms. 84% of U.S. adults plan to celebrate Mother’s Day this year, spending an estimated $35.7 billion on gifts and outings, up nearly $4 billion from last year’s record high. Flowers are expected to be one of the most popular gifts.

☆ The Covid–19 Crisis Is Officially Over. Everything Changed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Stephanie Stamm | Danny Dougherty | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The alarms sounded in March 2020, and Americans cloistered at home, sheltering from a pandemic killing at times thousands a day. Many people free to work remotely left their big-city lives for suburbs and rural communities. Americans everywhere have settled into more homebound routines for meals and entertainment. Yet even with the deadly crisis fading, the U.S. has yet to recapture the level of happiness enjoyed before the virus SARS-CoV-2 transformed our world.

☆ The Covid–19 Crisis is Officially Over. Everything changed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Stephanie Stamm | Danny Dougherty | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Is Russia’s Economy Growing or Shrinking? It Depends on the Forecaster.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Stephanie Stamm | Yuka Hayashi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ukrainians Work Through Blackouts, Internet Outages as Russia Targets Power Grid
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Stephanie Stamm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

With flashlights ready and devices charged, Ukrainians have acclimated to rolling power outages as Russia targets Ukraine’s energy grid with missiles and drones. But the damage caused by the attacks has made working and communicating online increasingly difficult. Anastasia Kvitka works remotely from Dnipro as a marketing manager for Bordio, a productivity and time management platform. When she hears the now-frequent sounds of explosions, she retreats to an improvised shelter: her pantry.

☆ Flu, RSV and Covid Drive Demand for Children’s Pain Relievers and Fever Reducers
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Stephanie Stamm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Medicines to lower fevers, clear congestion and ease aches and pains are in high demand this winter as the U.S. is experiencing a surge in pediatric cases of RSV, influenza and Covid-19. Both CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. announced they have imposed purchase limits on children’s cold and flu medicines. Sales of children’s over-the-counter medication are up 80% compared with the same four-week period a year earlier, totaling more than $86 million, according to market-research firm IRI. Inflation has also contributed to higher dollar sales, but it is mainly rising demand that is causing the shortages, IRI said. Parents and caregivers also have fewer pediatric pain relievers to choose from, with the number of options down 7% compared with a year ago.

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Team Among Top Political Donors Before Bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Paul Kiernan | Stephanie Stamm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and members of his team rose from relative obscurity in Washington to be among the biggest donors in U.S. politics, contributing more than $70 million to election campaigns in less than 18 months. Mr. Bankman-Fried personally gave $40 million to politicians and political-action committees ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, mostly to Democrats and liberal-leaning groups, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign donations. Ryan Salame, another top FTX executive, donated more than $23 million, mainly to Republicans and conservative groups.

In retaining their seats in Nevada and Arizona, while picking up a Republican-held seat in Pennsylvania, Democrats clinched control of the Senate even as the race in Georgia remains undecided. If Sen. Raphael Warnock is able to hold his seat in a Dec. 6 runoff against Republican Herschel Walker , Democrats will have actually gained a seat in a year in which Republicans hoped President Biden’s low approval rating would hand them the reins of both chambers of Congress.

Many Republicans managed to run ahead of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 performance in their districts. The shift in voter preferences can be seen in those districts that most directly reflect the national mood. The partisan voter index, or PVI, compares the vote in each congressional district with that of the nation, based on the past two presidential elections. For example, Mr. Trump’s average share of the vote in 2016 and 2020 was 49% in Michigan’s 8th congressional district. That is one point better than his average share of the vote nationally across those two elections, giving the district a PVI of R+1.

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