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Economy
The 45-year decline of the middle class costs you $12,000 a year
By Jake AngeloFebruary 11, 2026
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Success
Apple CEO Tim Cook out-earns the average American’s salary in just 7 hours—to put that into context, he could buy a new $439,000 home in just 2 days
By Emma BurleighDecember 12, 2025
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Success
Gen Z wants to know what their coworkers earn—so they’re being more transparent about pay and shunning employers who hide salaries
By Jessica CoacciNovember 11, 2025
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Economy
The K-shaped economy has come for your wages, as lower-income Americans sees their gains plummet to the weakest rate in a decade
By Sasha RogelbergNovember 10, 2025
Robin Wright
Success
‘House of Cards’ star Robin Wright says Netflix made her juggle three jobs to earn the same $500,000-per-episode salary as her costar Kevin Spacey
By Emma BurleighJune 23, 2025
The real reasons the CEO-worker pay gap spiraled out of control in America—and what to do about it
Commentary
The real reasons the CEO-worker pay gap spiraled out of control in America—and what to do about it
By Claudio Fernández-Aráoz and Greg NagelApril 15, 2025
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Lifestyle
Economists say America’s gender wage gap is getting worse again—the first major setback for working women in 20 years
By Alexandra Olson, Claire Savage and The Associated PressOctober 16, 2024
Half of all households in the country can’t afford a normal starter home
Finance
Half of all households in the country can’t afford a normal starter home
By Alena BotrosAugust 30, 2024
Raising children is way more expensive than most parents imagined—and more than half of all parents say they went into debt to pay for their kids, study shows
Success
Raising children is way more expensive than most parents imagined—and more than half of all parents say they went into debt to pay for their kids, study shows
By Chloe BergerApril 26, 2024
Workplace expert Nick Bloom says CHROs are rising stars of the C-suite after ‘a huge increase in HR importance’
Newsletters
Workplace expert Nick Bloom says CHROs are rising stars of the C-suite after ‘a huge increase in HR importance’
By Emma BurleighApril 9, 2024
Stressed out female worker
Success
Whoopi Goldberg blames millennials’ work ethic for their money problems, but new research shows they still bear ‘economic scars’ from the Financial Crisis
By Orianna Rosa RoyleNovember 13, 2023
Women drop $15 billion more annually on medical expenses than men. How employers can fix the covert health insurance ‘pink tax’
Health
Women drop $15 billion more annually on medical expenses than men. How employers can fix the covert health insurance ‘pink tax’
By Erin PraterSeptember 26, 2023
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Personal Finance
‘I’m already saving for my daughter’s maternity leave—she’s only 2.’ Parental leave in the U.S. is so bad families are planning generations in advance
By Eleanor PringleSeptember 14, 2023
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Newsletters
New research finds that despite the stereotypes, women actually negotiate their salaries more than men
By Sheryl EstradaAugust 30, 2023
Activists with Our Revolution hold $15 minimum wage signs outside the Capitol complex on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.
Leadership
Over half of U.S. states will raise minimum wages in 2023. Here’s how that could affect higher-earning workers
By Paige McGlauflinMarch 30, 2023
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