The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without ...
Leslie Sherman-Shafer, an Uber driver in the San Francisco Bay Area, likes to start each shift with a full tank of gas. It used to cost her around $25 to fill up her Toyota Corolla. She’s spent closer to $40 since the Iran war began and pushed up the average U.S. price for a gallon of ...
For many job seekers, it might seem like there’s never been a harder time to find a job. Hiring for white-collar jobs has been especially weak, part of what economists call a “low-hire, low-fire” job market in which businesses are largely holding onto their workers while hiring remains sluggish, making it difficult for younger workers to land permanent work. Technology is also shaking up the hiring process. Automated systems enable job seekers to easily apply to more jobs, but those same systems also makes it even tougher to get noticed. According to data from hiring platform ...
With volatile gasoline prices rising in recent weeks, Edmunds has seen increased shopper interest in hybrids, plug-in hybrids and fully electric vehicles. If you’re thinking about going 100% electric, there’s a way to save even more money: Buy used. While new EVs are more expensive than similar gas-powered vehicles, steep depreciation can actually make a 3-year-old EV more affordable than its gas counterpart. This price downturn doesn’t just apply to outdated EVs either. Some of Edmunds’ favorite models can be found for cheap on the used market. We included the average ...
Ohio’s unemployment rate stood at 4.3% in January, down from 4.4% in December, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Friday. Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 16,300 over the month, from a revised 5,663,400 in December to 5,679,700 in January. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in January was 255,000, down from 258,000 in December. The number of unemployed has decreased by 34,000 in the past 12 months from 289,000. The January unemployment rate for Ohio decreased 0.5 percentage points from 4.8% in January 2025. The U.S. ...
Despite a drop of nearly 10 percentage points from the previous year, General Motors leads the nation in auto sales. GM sales in the first quarter of 2026 totaled 626,429 vehicles, the company reported this week in its news release. Chevrolet’s Silverado line accounted for 128,818 of its ...
