Business

The UAW strike is not the first time a union weaponized the element of surprise

5:15am October 20, 2023

by Nick Fountain

The United Auto Workers union is showing the power of surprise as they threaten future strikes. That tactic was pioneered by a different union. Flight attendants.

When your boss is also your landlord: Employers are offering rentals to their workers

5:09pm October 19, 2023

by Carly Berlin

To find housing for workers, some employers in Vermont are turning into landlords. But the relationship to the employee renters can be tricky.

Union academic workers and supporters march and picket at the UCLA campus amid a statewide strike by nearly 48,000 University of California unionized workers on Nov. 15, 2022, in Los Angeles.

Education

UAW members aren't all assembling cars. More and more are unionized grad students

4:11pm October 19, 2023

by Andrea Hsu

At its peak, the United Auto Workers union had 1.5 million members. Today, the "A" in UAW might as well include academia, as roughly 100,000 of the union's 383,000 members work in higher education.

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The SEC is finalizing climate rules while California has its own regulations

5:11am October 19, 2023

by Michael Copley

Some big companies have been trying to water down federal rules that would force them to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. A new California law may push them into transparency.

Netflix sign is photographed outside its office building in Los Angeles, Wednesday, April 20, 2022.

Arts

Netflix raises prices for its premium plan

1:32am October 19, 2023

by The Associated Press

Netflix said it's raising the price for its most expensive streaming service by $2 to $23 per month in the U.S., and its lowest-priced, ad-free streaming plan to $12 — another $2 bump.

UAW strike ramps up as Kentucky facility walks off job

5:39pm October 18, 2023

by Jacob Munoz

The United Auto Workers strike now includes one of the largest and most profitable Ford plants. At the Kentucky facility, 8,700 workers walked off the job. Ford says it will have a huge impact.

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Household finances improved between 2019 and 2022, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve. Home ownership increased, despite a drop in affordability.

Economy

Why the average American family's net worth increased 37% during the pandemic

4:52pm October 18, 2023

by Scott Horsley

A new survey from the Federal Reserve finds that family finances overall improved in recent years, despite the economic upheaval caused by the pandemic.

Walter Isaacson, left, and Michael Lewis are authors and friends from New Orleans. Their new books are about billionaire Elon Musk and fallen crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried respectively.

Books
Arts

As Walter Isaacson and Michael Lewis wrote, their books' heroes became villains

4:47pm October 18, 2023

by David Folkenflik

What happens when the hero you plan to write about becomes a villain in much of the public's eye? We asked bestselling authors Michael Lewis and Walter Isaacson about Sam Bankman-Fried and Elon Musk.

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A cosplayer dressed as a boxed Barbie doll attends the MCM Comic Con at ExCeL exhibition centre in London on May 26, 2023.

It's a pink Halloween. Here are some of the most popular costumes of 2023

2:57pm October 18, 2023

by Kaity Kline

People are spending more money than ever on Halloween costumes. Here are the ones people are buying the most in 2023.

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Some users of X, formerly Twitter, will have to pay $1 a year to tweet on the site

7:23am October 18, 2023

The move only applies to new users in the Philippines and in New Zealand. Why them? The posting on X doesn't say. Elon Musk has said he wants to stop fake accounts and bots from taking over the site.

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