Business
August's Perfectly Fine Jobs Report
The U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs last month—growth that’s favorable enough to keep an interest-rate hike in 2016 a possibility.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Does Walmart Understaff Its Stores in Minority Communities?
A Columbia University sociologist found that customers’ complaints on Yelp had a lot to do with their area’s demographics.
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Toby Melville / Reuters How Ransomware Became a Billion-Dollar Nightmare for Businesses
One cybersecurity firm estimates that extortive attacks now cost small and medium companies at least $75 billion in expenses and lost productivity each year.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Was It a Mistake for Trump to Focus on the Economy?
Jobs Day in 2016 has become an anti-climax, thanks to an improving climate that aids Hillary Clinton. So why is the Republican still painting a bleak picture?
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Ahn Young-joon / AP Samsung's Recall
The company announced that in some instances the battery in the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone exploded.
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Gene Blevins / Reuters 72 Hours on the Fire Line, Every Week
Armando Alvarez has been fighting some of California’s worst fires for 15 years, working shifts that can go well beyond his regular hours and last up to 18 days.
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Rick Lord / Shutterstock At Work in Two Genders
Observations from accomplished trans women about power and leadership in the office
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Being the Person Behind the Badge
Officer Cabria Davis talks about rebuilding community trust with the police in Camden, New Jersey.
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Thomas Kienzle / AP The Dangerous Life of a Trash Collector
Angel Veloz talks about his work ethic and why he dropped out of college to drive trucks.
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Marco Ugarte / AP The Real Reason Peña Nieto Fears a Trump Presidency
If Donald Trump follows through with some of his campaign promises, he could wreak economic havoc on Mexico.
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Richard Drew / AP Apple Pushes Back
Tim Cook, its CEO, described as “maddening” the European Commission’s finding that Ireland should recoup 13 billion euros in back taxes from the tech giant.
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Rachel La Corte / AP Minimum-Wage Hikes Go Straight to the Ballot Box
Blocked by lawmakers, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington state will decide for themselves this November whether workers get a raise.
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Jorge Lopez / Reuters The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream
Poor kids are finally narrowing the achievement gap with rich kids. Is contraception the cause?
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Chris Pizzello / Reuters August's Best Reads: Flint, the Fed, and the Business of Game Shows
The month’s most interesting stories about money and business from around the web
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Courtesy of National Park Service, Maggie L. Walker ... The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street
Richmond was once the epicenter of black finance. What happened there explains the decline of black-owned banks across the country.
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Bettmann / Getty The Mail-Order Brides of Jamestown, Virginia
In its early days, the first English settlement in America had lots of men, tobacco, and land. All it needed was women.
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How Alumni Are Reading the University of Chicago Letter
Over the past week, my alma mater has been all over my (and probably your) news feed. The general dramatic…
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters Who Wouldn’t Want Apple to Pay Its Taxes?
The Irish finance minister and … the U.S. Treasury?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Someone to Talk to Upon Returning From War
After serving in Vietnam, John Cowart spent three decades helping soldiers who were struggling with the effects of military service.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters California's Smart New Retirement Plan and the Industry That Opposes It
Many asset-management companies fear a program that would reduce something they depend on: consumers’ confusion.
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Virginia Mayo / AP Why the EC Ruled Against Apple
The European Commission ordered Ireland to recover up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) from the tech giant over what it called “illegal tax benefits.”
