Inflation Is Rising. A Stuffed Toy Shows Why
Follow a giraffe from China to a San Francisco apartment to understand just how clogged the supply c...
Alana Semuels
Semuels is a senior correspondent at TIME covering the consumer side of healthcare. She previously wrote about economics and business news. She is a four-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and she has won awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers and the Los Angeles Press Club.
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Big Tech Is Coming to Small Towns, but at What Cost?
Data centers run by Facebook, Google and other tech companies are expanding across the U.S., promisi...
How Hourly Workers Are Securing Better Pay and Benefits
After 17 months of having to show up to jobs in person, America’s hourly workers may be gaining leve...
It's Not So Easy to Boycott Men
A record number of women run Fortune 500 companies. But they only make up 8.2% of the list.
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New Study Details Depth of U.S. Segregation
More than 80% of large metropolitan areas in the United States were more segregated in 2019 than in ...
Is It Time to Ditch Wood-Framed Houses?
With climate change driving more destructive fires, some builders are pushing for steel to replace w...
How Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight
Alaska Airlines has trained its human flight planners to work with new artificial intelligence desig...
Why Is It So Hard to Get Student Loan Debt Erased?
The economy wins when student loans are erased, but borrowers often struggle to access relief progra...
One Thing Flourished in the Pandemic: Trash
Several cities reported big jumps in garbage collection as people stayed home and created trash or w...
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Fixing Policing Means Updating Outmoded Training
Independent police academies graduate thousands of officers a year, but there's no oversight of thei...
Laid-Off Workers Want First Dibs on Jobs
As companies begin rehiring, unions are pushing for right of recall legislation that would give firs...
During California Wildfires, Breathing Is a Luxury
This year's record blazes has given residents a glimpse of the apocalypse
Power Cuts Loom as Bans on Shutoffs Expire
Moratoriums on power cuts are lifting for millions of customers in September.
Millions of Americans Have Lost Jobs in the Pandemic—And Robots and AI Are Replacing Them Faster Than Ever
In the pandemic economy, humans are being left behind
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