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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s central promise has been to bring down his city’s cost of living. Loading audio narration… But New York’s affordability problems are a result of its own success: Despite slowing population growth, the city’s housing stock and services are still in high demand, pushing prices…
Parenting is a hard job, and for many Americans, there aren’t many options to get professional childcare help. Loading audio narration… “Nearly half of all young children in the US live in a childcare desert, meaning they live in an area of the country where there is not sufficient licensed…
Small and seasonal US businesses rely on about 100,000 international students to boost their staff each summer. Loading audio narration… This year, though, demand threatens to outweigh supply.”We’re seeing the same number of businesses participate. However, the requested number of supplemental participants might be slightly less,” Kasey Simon, president of…
I started applying for jobs in the first week of my senior year at Stanford University, assuming I would have something lined up by graduation, if not sooner. I was surrounded by friends entering finance and consulting, where recruiting begins early and offers are secured months, sometimes years, in advance.…
Just 15 minutes, from concept to publish. That’s how long it took for me to create a basic version of a work management tool like Asana without writing a single line of code. Loading audio narration… The idea struck me one weekday when I asked my team: “What annoys you…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Zhang, a 25-year-old former Google employee based in Seattle. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When Google hired me as a software engineer at 22 years old, it felt like a huge accomplishment. It wasn’t just…
Jennie Young is a professor of rhetoric and women-and-gender studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Loading audio narration… I created the Burned Haystack Dating Method to help women survive dating apps — then I stopped dating altogether.As the method went viral, moderating fast-growing online communities on top of my…
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