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#TSA #GovernmentShutdown #SupportLocal
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A charity that usually feeds people in war zones and disaster areas is providing meals to TSA officers who aren't getting paid | Fortune
Across the country, collections are popping up to help Transportation Security Administration officers who have been without full pay for more than a month due to the partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security.
#Warfare #MilitaryTechnology #Drones
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The U.S. has the world's most advanced military, but the unforgiving economics of wars in Iran and Ukraine show quantity has a quality all its own | Fortune
The U. S. war on Iran has laid bare a dichotomy in the world's most advanced military: high-tech weapons and AI have delivered stunning blows at unprecedented speed, while defending against the swarm of missiles and drones launched in retaliation have come at unsustainably lopsided costs.
#VitaminK #PediatricCare #ParentalMisinformation
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It's not just vaccines. Parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns -- even protection from severe bleeding and blindness | Fortune
One day at an Idaho hospital, half the newborns Dr. Tom Patterson saw didn't get the vitamin K shots that have been given to babies for decades to prevent potentially deadly bleeding.
#AI #Metacognition #CognitiveFlexibility
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The one skill that separates people who get smarter with AI from everyone else | Fortune
After three years of widespread generative AI adoption, our data reveals only a small percentage of U. S. employees use AI in such a way that it enhances their thinking.
#FourDayWorkweek #RemoteWork #EnergyCrisis
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Covid gave us hybrid work. The Iran War might give us a 4-day week -- and this time, experts say it could stick | Fortune
It started in Asia, but now major governments around the world are once again mandating that workers stay home to save on fuel and survive an energy crisis as the war in the Middle East threatens vital oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
#WomenInTech #AIEquity #GenderDisparities
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We're at risk of a two-tier AI economy if we don't bridge the AI gender gap, expert says | Fortune
But experts warn this fast-paced innovation is leaving one essential group behind: women.
The jobs women hold are three times more likely to be automated by AI.
#FinancialLiteracy #DebtManagement #EconomicRecovery
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F-: Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Can't Pass a Basic Test of Financial Literacy | Fortune
Answer: $200. But if you got that wrong, you're not alone. Nearly two thirds of Americans can't calculate interest payments correctly, according to a new study.
#CivilRights #HigherEducation #TrumpAdministration
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Trump's DOJ sues Harvard, claiming failure to tackle antisemitism | Fortune
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, is another salvo in a protracted battle between the administration of President Donald Trump and the elite university.
#StudentLoans #EducationPolicy #DebtManagement
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Scott Bessent's Treasury Department will start overseeing the $180 billion of student loans that are in default | Fortune
The U. S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, a first step toward shedding management of all student loans as Trump administration officials dismantle the federal education agency.
#GovernmentBonds #EconomicPolicy #Inflation
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300 years of wars show they are 'always disaster times' for holders of government debt because of inflation and financial repression | Fortune
Government bonds, especially Treasuries, have long been seen as a safe haven during recessions, geopolitical calamities, and other market-moving disasters that create uncertainty.
#Economy #Inequality #KShapeEconomy
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Economists agree: You're not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the 'K-shaped economy' | Fortune
It all began with an anonymous Twitter handle named "Ivan the K. " The self-appointed "Lead Independent Director of Finance Twitter" had a dark theory in the depths of the pandemic.
#OilPrices #MiddleEastConflict #USMilitary
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As the U.S. gears up for a potential ground war in Iran, $100-plus oil threatens 'demand destruction' -- starting in Asia | Fortune
Oil declined to $109 per barrel after Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces would no longer target Iran's energy infrastructure.
#StudentDebt #GenZ #Millennials
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The graduate who racked up the biggest student loan in UK history owes more than $420,000 -- even pricier than the average British home | Fortune
As Gen Z and millennials watch the value of their degrees dramatically decline, one graduate in the UK has become the face of the crisis.
#GlobalTrade #Geopolitics #SupplyChain
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China is becoming a 'factory to the factories,' powering global manufacturing in places like Southeast Asia even as U.S. trade declines | Fortune
China is becoming a "factory to the factories," ramping up its exports of industrial components like smartphone parts, processors, memory chips and lithium-ion batteries, destined for final assembly in economies like Southeast Asia.
#Politics #DemocraticParty #YouthEngagement
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Jack Schlossberg on why Democrats lost young men to Trump -- and it starts with the reason he quit the Biden campaign | Fortune
Jack Schlossberg has a confession: He thinks Donald Trump did something right.
At Fortune's CEO Initiative dinner in New York, the grandson of President John F.
#Hubris #Democracy #PowerDynamics
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Anthony Scaramucci: America's billionaires and presidents have forgotten the lesson that destroyed Rome | Fortune
The Greeks had a word for what happens when power goes unchecked: hubris. The pattern in their tragedies is always the same -- a leader, swollen with success, decides the rules no longer apply to him.
#HealthCare #AffordableCareAct #DiabetesManagement
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'Sometimes I don't even take my medicine': Americans are choosing between insulin and buying gas following Trump's Obamacare cuts | Fortune
Lately, Priscilla Brown has had to choose between properly managing her Type 2 diabetes and affording other necessities, like gas in her car.
#SkilledTrades #EducationReform #JobMarket
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TV host Mike Rowe slams schools for portraying skilled trades as a 'consolation prize' -- when he's met data center electricians making $280K a year | Fortune
For many decades, students have been steered toward a singular path: go to college, or risk falling behind. It's a message that took hold in the 1970s and 80s, when school districts removed shop classes -- once designed to introduce students to trades like carpentry, welding, and electrical work.
#CEO #BusinessLeadership #AITransformation
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The AI era is turning Corporate America into a CEO churn machine | Fortune
Adobe's longtime CEO Shantanu Narayen announced he was stepping down last week, a move caused, at least in part, by investors' impatience with the software company's AI transition.
#AIPilot #BusinessStrategy #AITransformation
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From pilot mania to portfolio discipline: how the best companies are escaping AI purgatory | Fortune
According to the now well publicized MIT-affiliated research and reporting, fewer than 5% of enterprise AI pilots ever deliver measurable business value.
#RareDiseases #Biotech #DrugDevelopment
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The $3.4 billion lesson Big Pharma needs to learn: its shelved drugs could save millions of patients | Fortune
For patients living with rare and neglected diseases, the next breakthrough treatment might already be sitting in a pharmaceutical company's filing cabinet.
#FutureOfWork #BlueCollarJobs #AIImpact
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'Plumbers regularly earn more than lawyers': Top entrepreneur makes a bold prediction that AI will flip the American Dream | Fortune
For decades, the standard formula for financial success was the same: go to college, get a degree, and land a prestigious white-collar job -- probably a lawyer, consultant, or investment banker.
#AI #WorkforceDisruption #FutureOfWork
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Fortune 500 firm updates AI price tag to $4.5 trillion, estimating 93% of jobs vulnerable to disruption | Fortune
Professional services company Cognizant (number 217 on the 2026 edition of the Fortune 500) has reassessed its estimate of AI's impact on the workplace, and the results are starker than before.
#EnergyCrisis #OilPrices #MiddleEastConflict
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It's almost inexplicable why oil prices aren't much higher. But here's why markets are 'resilient' so far despite the biggest energy supply shock ever | Fortune
The war in Iran represents the biggest energy supply shock in history with the Strait of Hormuz choke point effectively off limits to the 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas that flows through it each day.
#JonesAct #OilPrices #EnergyMarkets
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White House suspends the Jones Act for 60 days. Analysts see a gas price impact of 3 cents | Fortune
As the U. S. and Israel's war against Iran continues to upend energy markets and supply chains worldwide, the Trump administration says it will temporarily waive maritime shipping requirements under a more than century-old law known as the Jones Act.
#USChinaRelations #MiddleEastConflict #Geopolitics
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'The United States is undermining itself': China is ignoring Trump's Hormuz request as the Iran war deepens and his Beijing trip slips | Fortune
China won't help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz as requested by President Donald Trump, but it is probably welcoming the delay in Trump's highly anticipated trip to Beijing as the U.
#SmallBusiness #ArtificialIntelligence #BusinessGrowth
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Fewer than 1 in 5 small businesses are good at actually integrating AI | Fortune
Main Street is racing to fit artificial intelligence into its business models, but most small businesses are still learning to walk before they can run.
#Graduation2026 #CareerPath #AIImpact
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns AI could leave the class of 2026 facing the highest unemployment in years -- even without a recession | Fortune
With graduation season just weeks away, millions of college seniors are preparing to walk across commencement stages and become the youngest members of the workforce.
#Philanthropy #GivingBack #Nonprofit
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Only one couple out of 250 billionaires has kept their promise to give away their fortune -- and a philanthropy CEO says Elon Musk is right about why | Fortune
Giving away billions sounds easy. Write a check and change the world. But Elon Musk, the world's richest man, admitted last year that, actually, "it is very difficult to give money away for the reality of goodness.
#WorkLifeBalance #Flexibility #EmployeeEngagement
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Bosses are fighting a new battle in the RTO wars: It's not about where you work, but when you work | Fortune
For the last three years, the corporate world has been locked in a territorial dispute. The "Return to Office" (RTO) wars were defined by geography: the home versus the headquarters.
#Venezuela #EconomicReform #Democracy
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Before Maduro ouster, Nobel Prize winner said Venezuela has a $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize over 500 companies and undo socialist 'disaster' | Fortune
Months before the U. S. military arrested Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, opposition leader María Corina Machado called for what she described as the most ambitious economic transformation in the nation's history -- a sweeping privatization aimed at reversing his policies and what she calls "the disaster this socialist system has wrought.
