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America’s wealthy need pampering — and they’re hiring. “Wealth jobs,” or personal care jobs like childcare workers, private chefs, housekeepers, and massage therapists, have seen higher-than-average growth since 2010, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution. In fact, between 2010 and 2017, “the number of manicurists and pedicurists …

For many, being part of the middle class these days can mean they’re making every dollar count. Of course, it helps to live in a city where those dollars go furthest. That often means lower property taxes, good public schools, and secure jobs. A new study by financial services website …

Analysts and potential investors have had some big questions about WeWork. They now have some answers. In its public offering paperwork that it released last week, WeWork addressed many of those questions. One of the sections in the document was entitled “Expected Resilience in a Downturn.” But the company’s answers …

Starting your own business from scratch can be daunting, but doing it in a brand-new country can seem all but impossible. Luckily, countless immigrants have founded startups and small businesses in the US already, like Katya Dorozhkina, a Moscow-born entrepreneur. In 2015, Dorozhkina founded Starta Accelerator, an expansion of New …

Student debt is one of the fastest-growing financial burdens on Americans, with over $1.5 trillion in outstanding balances. With tuition skyrocketing and a college education continuing to be necessary to join or stay in the middle class, that debt burden is set to keep climbing. We took a look at …

Drug research has a diversity problem. Roughly 86% of participants in clinical trials are white, according to a recent analysis published in the journal Nature last year. And that’s in spite of the fact that clinical trial data used to approve US drugs increasingly comes from countries all around the …

Drug research has a diversity problem. Roughly 86% of participants in clinical trials are white, according to a recent analysis published in the journal Nature last year. And that’s in spite of the fact that clinical trial data used to approve US drugs increasingly comes from countries all around the …

The Amazon is in flames. São Paulo, Brazil’s financial capital and the largest city in the Western Hemisphere, went dark midday Monday because of fires from the rainforest, some 2,000 miles away. Meanwhile, when the Financial Times spoke with the country’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, he said the solution was …

Don’t have the time or money to get a bachelor’s degree? It turns out that plenty of two-year associate degrees have a high return on investment. According to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 25 highest-paying jobs that require only an associate degree. …

If you are a venture capitalist or an entrepreneur, your primary goal is to become wildly successful. You might have a more noble second goal of trying to build something that improves the world. But if you aren’t successful first, you won’t have the chance to unleash that world-changing idea. …