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CEO of America’s largest Social Security advisory firm: Trump’s big tax cut ‘did not help’

“Very few at the very top gain more and more tax advantages…the lower and middle class aren’t really seeing a benefit,” Martha Shedden told Fortune.

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Interest on the $38.8 trillion national debt has tripled since 2020, and it already costs taxpayers more than defense and Medicaid

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‘Could it kill someone?’ A Seoul woman allegedly used ChatGPT to help carry out two murders in South Korean motels

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MacKenzie Scott’s close relationship with Toni Morrison long before Amazon put Scott on the path to give more than $1 billion to HBCUs

Slack cofounder says workers and CEOs can get stuck doing ‘fake’ work like pre-meetings and slideshows

Gen Z men are eating ‘boy kibble,’ the human equivalent to dog food, to load up on protein cheaply

USAA CEO says Gen Z ‘are not going to be as well off’ as boomers and Gen Xers—they need to take ownership of their success, he urges

Here’s how to build something that lasts, from the founder of a $300 million bootstrapped company that’s been growing for 28 years straight

Meet the Gen Z college students who turned Excel into a competitive esport—they’re competing in spreadsheet challenges and it’s helping them land jobs

Dolly Parton’s philanthropy inspiration is her father who couldn’t read or write: ‘I saw how crippling that could be’

The Great Wealth Transfer is already happening as millennials hitting their ‘Peak 35’ are richer than ever

CEO of the tech company behind Hinge and Tinder set up an employee hotline where staff can DM him anytime: ‘No hierarchy. No filters. Just real input.’

Workers are making over $1 million by secretly holding down multiple gigs—and they’re doing it all within the 40-hour workweek

Japanese companies are paying older workers to sit by a window and do nothing—while Western CEOs demand super-AI productivity just to keep your job

Exclusive: How Becky Kennedy built a leadership playbook for parenting—and a $34-million-a-year business

It’s more than George Clooney moving to France: America is becoming the ‘uncool’ country that people want to move away from

Walmart exec says U.S. workforces needs to take inspiration from China where ‘5 year-olds are learning DeepSeek’

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says he spends up to 40% of his time on company culture, not products, because it’s the only thing that will win the AI race

Despite the constant ‘job apocalypse’ warnings, computer science graduates are actually on track to earn $81,000 right out of college

MacKenzie Scott gave away $7.2 billion in just one year. That’s more than Jeff Bezos and most other billionaires have donated in their lifetimes

50 seasons later, ‘Survivor’ bets on nostalgia to win the ratings game

Rolex has just opened a trade school for watchmakers in Texas. Already competition is as fierce as Harvard’s, and students could walk out with $95,000 jobs

‘Trump Accounts’ means kids can have $270,000 saved by age 18. Larry Fink says that’s twice as much as most adults have now

Amazon Ring’s founder is back with a hard pivot to AI. How Jamie Siminoff went from ‘Shark Tank’ reject to $1 billion brand

Former Apple exec had lunch with his boss Steve Jobs for 15 years—he says the late founder’s ‘insatiable curiosity’ taught him to never coast on his expertise

Ex–presidential candidate Andrew Yang warns that millions of white-collar workers will lose their jobs within 18 months: ‘The AI jobpocalypse is here’

Jeff Bezos says being lazy, not working hard, is the root of anxiety: ‘The stress goes away the second I take that first step’

Gen Z Olympic champion Eileen Gu says she rewires her brain daily to be more successful—and multimillionaire founder Arianna Huffington says it really does work

Forget job titles when you’re in your 20s—that was the best career advice Barack Obama gave his ex-speechwriter

3 lessons from investing’s ‘moneyball’ moment

We studied chatbots and language and saw a huge problem: They mean 80% when they say ‘likely’ but humans hear 65%

Trump announces 401(k)s for all: ‘We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year’

Alibaba cofounder tells aspiring entrepreneurs that picking a team you’d spend “24/7 with” should be their first priority—not work-life balance

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