“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.”

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Kurtz, 49, said his finances were “already tight” this year after he also had to pay more for fertilizer and chemicals.

Mike Bloomberg started at Salomon Brothers as a clerk making $9,000 a year, making his way up to partner, before getting the boot. He has no hard feelings, and learned critical lessons from the rejection.

The billionaire tech CEO says that a tough-love management style, influenced by his Taiwanese parents, has been key to Nvidia’s $5 trillion success.

Anne Hathaway received the same AI-written thank you note from every candidate—and Meryl Streep said what every boss is thinking: “That’s just tragic.”