Des Moines food pantries face spiking demand as the Iowa region’s SNAP enrollment declines
A volunteer loads food into a bag at the Des Moines Area Religious Council food pantry in 2020.
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Who’s thriving, who’s struggling and who’s stuck at the kitchen table: how working lives are changing in the UK
shutterstock PeopleImages.com - Yuri A/ShutterstockFor many people in the UK work is changing: how we work, what we do and where we do it. The change is faster for some than it is for others – and it’s not always changing for the better.
The founder kings of Silicon Valley: Dual-class stock gives US social media company controllers nearly as much power as ByteDance has over TikTok
When Congress passed a law in 2024 to ban TikTok unless it came under U.S. ownership, lawmakers argued that the app’s Chinese parent company posed national security concerns.
Looking inward: why Trump’s tariffs highlight the need for NZ to build local capacity
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWhen retail executives start swearing during earnings calls, something is clearly amiss.
Tech startup culture is not as innovative as founders may think
Eric Yuan was not happy at Cisco Systems even though he was making a salary in the high six figures, working as vice president of engineering on the videoconferencing software Cisco WebEx.
“I even did not want to go to the office to work,” Yuan told CNBC Make It in 2019.
We analyzed racial justice statements from the 500 largest US companies and found that DEI officials really did have an influence
In 2020, American businesses responded to an unprecedented wave of racial justice protests with an equally unprecedented surge in corporate commitments.
Mae Reeves used showstopping hats to fuel voter engagement and Black entrepreneurship
Mae Reeves and her husband, Joel, pose with her hats at Mae's Millinery in Philadelphia, circa 1953.
The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit
The flourishing Black business district in Detroit, Mich., photographed in 1942. Arthur S. Siegel via the Library of Congress, CC BY-NDBlack businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s.
Theft, daydreaming and everything in between: most of us are a bit ‘deviant’ at work
We usually think of workplace deviance as linked to “bad apples”–the troublemakers who egregiously slack off, steal from the company or openly clash with coworkers. But what if deviant behaviour was also more subtle–daydreaming, taking long coffee breaks or cracking an edgy joke in a meeting? It turns out most employees engage in quieter patterns of minor misbehaviours, and it’s changing how we think about deviance on the job.
Trump’s tariffs threaten Indigenous businesses in Canada — the government must take action
It’s a tough time for Canadians to start a new business. A looming recession, intensifying trade war with the United States and geopolitical uncertainty are making the economic landscape difficult for many business owners.
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