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Suzy Welch worries that Gen Z is ‘unemployable’—and some leaders are intervening to teach them basic life skills

Liz Feld, who works on college campuses with Gen Z, says “They’re threatened” by small talk. “They will tell us that they see a rejection in a conversation as personal failure.”

By Nick Lichtenberg

September 29, 2025

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Former gas station owner and JCPenney manager who became a millionaire after 50 dies at 94, leaving his company to employees

Bud Light isn’t the only beer brand struggling: Gen Z’s prohibition vibes are souring the future of beer as we know it

Walmart, supermarket data prove it: Valentine’s Day is for the procrastinators

RE/MAX founder’s first real-estate sale: After 6 months of trying and failing, a chance encounter at the grocery store and 5 deals in 48 hours

Millennial middle managers are most likely to be feeling stressed, overwhelmed and burned out at work

Bank of America and Lockheed Martin say you don’t need a degree to land a job there—but that’s not what their hiring data suggests

America faces a shortage of primary care doctors–and they’re drowning in work. Here’s how AI can solve the physician burnout crisis

Thousands of U.S. Uber and Lyft drivers set to park their cars and picket at major airports in Valentine’s Day strike

Mickey Mouse wants to unionize

Travis Kelce’s Super Bowl behavior is emblematic of the ‘rise of the jerk’

If Bill Gates could ask a time traveler anything, he’d want to know whether AI eventually doomed or helped humanity

Jeff Bezos’s move from Seattle to Miami could save him over $600M in capital gains tax on a planned share sale

Usher marries longtime girlfriend in Las Vegas hours after the Super Bowl with Elvis Presley impersonator officiating

So many Americans were gambling on the Super Bowl online that transactions hit nearly 15,000 per second

Meet oil’s new king: 85-year-old Autry Stephens, raised by peanut-and-melon farmers and now worth $25.9 billion

Despite all their anti-capitalist talk, Gen Z is addicted to celebrity—they’re more likely to purchase from brands they think are ‘cool’

Gen Z and millennials are trying to dodge layoffs by turning to low-paid but ‘stable’ government jobs

The unexpected sign that AI may soon take your job: Higher pay

Dolly Parton’s advice for running her sprawling business empire at 78: ‘Rely on “higher wisdom,” look your best, and don’t boss anyone around’

Jimmy Van Eaton, pioneering rock ‘n’ roll drummer who spent 4 decades selling bonds after backing Jerry Lee Lewis, dies at 86

‘The kids are all on TikTok or the internet and understand therapy speak’: Gen Zers’ parents recoil from school mental health treatment

Sriracha mogul David Tran is a 78-year-old immigrant turned multimillionaire—and now his empire is in peril

Did capitalism already die and nobody noticed? Yanis Varoufakis thinks so

The wealth gap is getting worse, and rich white people are getting even richer

From JPMorgan to Trader Joe’s: 2 millennials who’ve been best friends since college quit their 6-figure jobs to start a multimillion-dollar hard seltzer brand

After a two-decade hiatus, Joni Mitchell emerged as the queen of songstresses in the best year yet for women artists

Feel the burn(out): Millennials are aging from bright-eyed ‘hustle culture’ workers into exhausted middle managers

Gen Z—not baby boomers—are most afraid of AI because they haven’t experienced any other tech booms, recruitment expert says

Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’

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