Gen Z's Latest College Grads Have A New Rival In The Workforce

Denver-based Guild, an online worker training platform, offered a hard lesson to its employees Wednesday, telling a quarter of them they would be out of a job. The company didn’t specify the number of workers being laid off when asked. But based on an estimated headcount of 1,200 employees, about 300 people may have lost their jobs. The latest round of layoffs comes a year after the company released 172 workers or about 12% of its workforce of more than 1,400 people.

Artificial intelligence can help solve the affordable housing crisis. Financial inequality remains an unsolved issue. The lack of affordable housing has led to a crisis where long-term wealth generation through homeownership is impossible for many. Closing the wealth inequality gap, which is closely linked to race, has become increasingly difficult due to systemic biases within financial institutions.

Giving Green helps nonprofits that it believes have the potential to make a significant difference in preventing climate change and reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. On a Friday morning in April, Dan Stein, the founder of Giving Green, a climate philanthropy organization, found some big news in a surprising email.

The final games of the National Basketball Association’s season are taking place now. Here’s how cord-cutters can stream the action. Basketball fans rejoice. The NBA conference finals began last night. The Boston Celtics beat the Indiana Pacers in overtime 133-128. Here’s what you need to know going into the rest of the finals and how to tune in, even if you don’t have a traditional cable TV subscription.

This call to action for Gen Xers is our moment to lead America out of political turmoil. Several years ago, I caught up with a business school classmate who was a rockstar. She’d had an incredible career in the 20 years since receiving her MBA and returning home to Turkey. But at this moment she was scared, and it had nothing to do with the underlying strength of her business: She feared that the political turmoil in her country was putting everything at stake—her company, her freedom, and her family’s future.

The tie-up comes amid an investment and tourism boom in Japan, partly fueled by the yen’s slide that has made the country’s goods relatively cheap. Japan’s Rakuten Group is partnering with eBay to test U. S. demand for used Japanese fashion goods, made all the cheaper with the yen trading near a 34-year low.