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☆ America sort of likes Kamala Harris – and that might just be enough
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The 2024 White House race remains too close to call, but Vice President Kamala Harris' momentum is evident when you look just a little past the horse race. Earlier this week, Harris' favorability emerged above water for the first time since shortly after President Joe Biden took office. Soltis Anderson discussed a poll that the interest group commissioned, which found Harris has expanded Biden's once-meager lead over women voters aged 50 and over. Unlike Clinton, Walsh pointed out Harris hasn't spent decades in the spotlight and isn't faced with assuaging voters' fears of a potential political dynasty. Harris' favorability was up slightly in both Pennsylvania and Michigan.

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☆ 41 cities for hopeful homebuyers looking for leverage at work as unemployment rises
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Leading real-estate analyst Ivy Zelman recently told Business Insider that entry-level houses are still about 20% more expensive than normal. While the unemployment rate remains relatively low, it has now risen for four straight months and appears to be accelerating. A higher unemployment rate is a troubling sign for employees, including those who have jobs and aren't looking to leave. In a tight job market, workers can demand higher raises since there aren't as many viable replacements for them if they left. Note that data for the cities is from June — the most current data obtained by Business Insider — while the national data is from July.

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☆ Amy Winehouse's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil says the 'Back to Black' biopic was 'surreal' and 'therapeutic' to watch
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewAmy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil's tumultuous relationship is reexamined in Sam Taylor-Johnson's new film "Back to Black." Since Winehouse's death, Fielder-Civil has expressed regret for introducing her to heroinAmy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil in 2007. Fielder-Civil called 'Back to Black' 'therapeutic'Jack O'Connell as Blake Fielder-Civil and Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in "Back to Black." Advertisement"I think he's definitely very misunderstood," O'Connell told People magazine. After watching the biopic, Fielder-Civil said he would be open to talking with Winehouse's father and family.

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☆ Jenny Nicholson breaks down Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ hotel closure
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Some of her most popular videos cover shows and movies like “The Vampire Diaries,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” and installments in the “Star Wars” franchise. None of them are nearly as long as her most recent video, “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel.”Over the course of 20 video chapters, Nicholson details her 2022 stay at the “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser” hotel in Orlando, Florida. The tale is likely familiar to Disney and Star Wars fans, many of whom heard about the high-dollar, high-concept hotel and its closure in 2023. The big draw of the hotel lay in what Disney marketing called an “immersive, customizable Star Wars experience” that Nicholson equated to LARPing, or live-action roleplaying. “I couldn’t care less about some dumb Star Wars hotel, but give me those 4 hours,” one X user said.

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☆ This is the moment Trump changed American politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Being elected president shortly after surviving the publication of the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape in 2016 is the moment in which Donald Trump defied political gravity. The ‘Access Hollywood’ tape reexaminedTrump’s 2016 victory in the Electoral College seems only more improbable in the retelling. It is worth revisiting the earthquake the “Access Hollywood” tape set off in the 2016 campaign. Return of the tapeNow, the “Access Hollywood” tape is back. Video Ad Feedback Trump asked if he stands by comments from 'Access Hollywood' tape.

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☆ A woman who spent a year job-searching in Australia shares the resume that got her zero interviews — and what she changed to get hired
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Connor had prior work experience in India, the UK, and Hong Kong, and she decided to try to find work in her new home country, too. It took her over a year and a meeting with a professional resume consultant to land a job in Melbourne. The 2009 resume Connor used to apply to jobs in Australia Baishakhi ConnorResume mistakes Connor madeRoughly 15 years later, Connor reexamined her resume and said she would do several things differently. Here's what she would change:Add a summary: "This was a missing summary or a profile," Connor said of her resume. In retrospect, she would write "Career Highlights" instead of "Work Experience," because in Australia, "work experience" is something school students do for free to understand the industry, Connor said.

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☆ An ex-Googler shares the resume that landed him the job — and what he would change on it 10 years later
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Wang worked at Google for four years, first in policy and then in marketing. AdvertisementAt Google, Wang says he went through seven rounds of interviews. Show your accomplishments, not your work: Wang said he'd focus less on listing tasks, and more on explaining how his tasks became accomplishments. Tailor for what you want: "Pick your battles — not every single work experience is going to be equal," Wang said. Wang worked at Google's policy division and later as a product marketing manager.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for kidnapping, robbery and rape has been declared innocent and freed, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday. DNA testing helped exonerate Gerardo Cabanillas in a 1995 attack on a couple sitting in a parked car in the city of South Gate, the county district attorney's office said in a statement. Cabanillas was convicted in 1996 and spent 28 years in prison. DNA testing on the rape kit showed that two other people committed the assault, the group said in a statement. No other suspects were ever arrested, although one man later confessed to committing one of the crimes, the Innocence Project said.

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☆ New job data show a changed labor market
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

TRUCKERS, MANAGERS AND THERAPISTS The Post-Pandemic Workforce What new data show about the U.S. labor market that emerged from the coronavirusThe pandemic sparked what seemed a massive reshuffling of who does what in the American workforce. Keeping track of that shifting landscape falls to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which every year details how many people do different types of jobs. The graphic shows the number of jobs in 22 occupational categories in 2016, 2019 and 2022. The graphic shows how the percentage share in the total workforce changed from 2019 to 2022 for each of 22 occupational categories. With natural population growth slowing, immigration could play an important role in how labor demands are met.

Persons: Jobs, Green Roofers Organizations: Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS, Movers, Sales, Mental Health, Federal Reserve Locations: COVID, U.S

☆ Give us your nominations: CNBC is ranking the world's top fintech companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In 2022, the fintech world took a beating, with some of the world's most richly valued companies seeing their valuations slashed. CNBC and independent research firm Statista are working together to identify the world's top fintech companies, to be named in a published CNBC report in August. In 2022, the fintech world took a beating. That has made the need for a transparent overview of the top fintech companies more important than ever. As part of the research, we are inviting entries from eligible fintech companies to register their interest in being considered for the list.

☆ Philly’s newly ID’d ‘Boy in the Box’ gets grave marker at 70
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

The family lived down the street from the potter’s field where the boy was first buried, and placed flowers there on holidays. It’s a confluence of great detective work, cutting-edge science and the careful art of genealogical research, retired city detective William Fleisher said in his graveside remarks Friday. “It is a big part of our city’s history, a big part of the Philadelphia Police Department’s history. So this is everybody’s victory.”Police now believe the boy lived in West Philadelphia, miles across town from where his body was found. “This has been our whole lives, with this boy, our whole entire lives, since we were children,” said Kim Augustine, 56, Braxton’s sister.

☆ Why the Taylor Swift debacle could lead to renewed scrutiny of the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Lawmakers and Swifties are calling for the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger to be reexamined. The Department of Justice was reportedly investigating the merger prior to the Eras Tour madness. Now, the Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger, a probe that began even before the Eras Tour debacle. That's the kind of merger critics argue happened with Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Live Nation has not incurred any of those penalties.

☆ Taylor Swift fans are angry at Ticketmaster's merger with Live Nation after the company's debacle around her concert tickets. An antitrust expert who testified against it said he thinks breaking it up
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Taylor Swift tickets queue was once a madhouse, before Ticketmaster canceled its public ticket sale. Some are pointing to Ticketmaster's merger with Live Nation as the reason that prices are high and competition low. An antitrust expert who testified against the merger told Insider that breaking it up "will be a major priority for the antitrust division" of the DOJ. "The value in going to the Taylor Swift concert is Taylor Swift," Balto said. The madness over Taylor Swift tickets has refreshed calls for the merger to be reexamined, with several lawmakers weighing in.

☆ Casey DeSantis, Florida's 'co-governor': Rivals, friends, and former colleagues say she's the secret behind husband Ron DeSantis' meteoric rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Lyz Lenz | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +29 min

Florida's first lady, Casey DeSantis, is a close confidant to her powerful husband, several people told Insider. He added, "We would not see Ron DeSantis outside of press conferences if he did not have a wife and kids." Ron DeSantis began clawing his way into the national spotlight in 2017 as a member of the US House of Representatives. She smiled wryly and said: "Everyone knows my husband, Ron DeSantis, is endorsed by President Trump, but he's also an amazing dad. "Ron DeSantis would be a very good candidate for the St. Johns county commission if he did not have Casey DeSantis in his life," Schorsch said.

☆ Obama barnstorms Midwest in play to salvage Democrats' 'Blue Wall'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Natasha Korecki | Natasha Korecki Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

MILWAUKEE — Barack Obama did the unthinkable in his 2008 presidential bid, turning out voters in droves to solidify a “Blue Wall,” with decisive wins in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. "Look, listen — hey, hold on, hold on — hold on, hold up — hold on a minute! In both Wisconsin and Michigan, Obama discussed reproductive rights for women. Obama dominated Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania in 2008 and 2012, only for Donald Trump to capture those same states in 2016. The Senate race is tied.

☆ Analysis: 'Abbott Elementary' is back in session
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Three things to watch‘Abbott Elementary’ Season 2(From left) Quinta Brunson, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Tyler James Williams, Chris Perfetti and Sheryl Lee Ralph in a scene from "Abbott Elementary." Gilles Mingasson/ABCNot enough great things can be said about “Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson. “Abbott Elementary” airs Wednesday nights on ABC; episodes will also be available to stream the following day on Hulu. ‘Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’Evan Peters stars as Jeffrey Dahmer in "Dahmer -- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story." ‘The Kardashians’ Season 2Kim Kardashian in a scene from the second season of Hulu's "The Kardashians."

☆ The dirty little secret on how congressional staff thrive in the always-on world of modern politics is doing moonlight work like 80-hour weeks, including unpaid Saturdays and Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-04 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Warren Rojas | Camila Dechalus | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

Some tasks included connecting with local reporters and coordinating messaging with partner political outfits such as EMILY's List and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. That helped her boss' official congressional office save money it could then spend elsewhere, but it did nothing to help her own financial situation. Congressional staffers have used social-media accounts such as Dear White Staffers to spotlight professional burnout, inadequate pay, long hours, diversity failings, and caustic bosses. For example, one of the rules says a congressional staffer working in a congressional office must step outside the office to do campaign work. Or, if there is compensation offered — which isn't guaranteed — they may desperately need the additional money to supplement the low pay for congressional staff."

☆ Over 22,570 persons had old-age pensions reexamined
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-13 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +1 min

Over 22,570 persons had old-age pensions reexaminedAs many as 22,571 persons benefited from the reexamination of the old-age pension in 2020, when two reassessment stages were conducted, covering pensioners who worked after retiring, IPN reports, quoting the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection. Also, 19,429 persons benefitted from an average increase of 2,881 lei in pensions as of July 1, 2020. The average pension of those who had the pension reexamined is 5,559 lei. As of January 1, 2022, the recipients of pensions set after January 1, 1999, who worked for five to seven years after retiring, can also have their pensions recalculated. Of the 690,200 recipients of pensions, 168,600 continued work after reaching retirement.

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