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Indeed’s CEO wants to break this ‘vicious cycle’ in hiring

Hisayuki Idekoba hears regularly about how broken hiring can feel.As head of the job platform Indeed, job seekers tell him they have applied to roles only to get nothing back, while employers complain about unresponsive candidates and surging application volumes, thanks in part to AI bots that flood open roles…

‘It’s going to hurt’: How a surging student-loan payment is reshaping a family’s future

Jodi and Paul Sprague raised their daughters with a guiding principle: understand the value of a dollar. By elementary school, Evelyn and Olivia were learning about mortgages, car insurance, and basic accounting in the carpool lane.Early one June morning, before Evelyn, 17, and Olivia, 19, left for their summer jobs, Jodi sat them down with news that threw the Spragues’ carefully managed budget into question. The student-loan payments the family had budgeted for since 2015…

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The federal government’s annual budget deficit reached $2 trillion after the first 11 months of fiscal year 2026, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported. The CBO’s monthly budget update for August noted that the 11-month deficit total was $6 billion lower than the same period last year, though it…

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Brooks Brothers Creative Director Michael Bastian Remembers 9/11

The Brooks Brothers location at Manhattan’s One Liberty Plaza sustained heavy damage when the Twin Towers collapsed on September 11, 2001. The store reopened exactly one year after the attacks.While the store is no longer there — it closed in 2018 amid planned renovations and relocated a few blocks away…

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