Business

As of the third quarter (Q3) of 2023, consumers collectively owed more than $1 trillion on their credit cards.

Retirement is what the majority of Americans look forward to after spending decades in the workforce. It comes with financial independence and newfound freedom.  However, Black women are not as supported as their white counterparts in retirement.

America's debt addiction takes on a new twist—thanks to opaque, unregulated "buy now, pay later" loans that have swept retail in the past few years.

Freeways, ports, and other industrial areas are often seen on the horizon — or closer, in some instances — in Black communities. Living in close quarters to, say, factories or petrochemical plants or other fixed sources of pollution is hugely detrimental to public health in such neighborhoods.

What’s behind Gavin Newsom’s u-turn on worker heat protections? Hint: It would cost billions of dollars to bring California’s prisons into compliance.

What kinds of startups are trending? When inflation surged toward the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks responded by raising interest rates, which caused companies to slash their investments.

Burnout is such a problem for workers that some bosses are considering shrinking the length of the workweek. Nearly one-third (30%) of large US companies are exploring new work schedule shifts such as four-day or four-and-a-half-day workweeks, according to a KPMG survey of CEOs released this week.

A new study identified Black-owned businesses and found Americans are willing to pay more to close the racial wealth gap.

Global policymakers and business leaders are now increasingly warning that the rise of artificial intelligence will likely have profound impacts on the labor market and could put millions of people out of work in the years ahead (while also creating new and different jobs in the process).

TikTok is again facing an imminent threat from Congress. On Wednesday, House Republicans added a hot-button bill that could lead to a nationwide TikTok ban to a wide-ranging foreign aid package intended to help Israel and Ukraine.