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Degree-free widening trend among U.S. employers

Walmart has eliminated college degrees as a requirement for hundreds of its corporate roles. The retail giant said in September that it would get rid...

U.S. rent affordability drops to lowest level in decades

Rapid inflation is hitting low-to-moderate income renter households the hardest. For the first time in decades, the rent-to-income ratio has reached 40 percent at...

What are APIs? A computer scientist explains the data sockets that make digital life...

APIs, or application programming interfaces, are the gateways to the digital world. They link a wide array of software applications and systems. APIs facilitate communication...

Demographics, they are a ‘changing

The American family has undergone significant change in recent decades. There is no longer one predominant family form, and Americans are experiencing family life...

Profits get a lot of hate, but we all benefit from them every day

Profits have gotten a lot bad press. Perhaps second to private property (theft, according to Bakunin) profits are the devil incarnate in the view...

Net neutrality—why is it so controversial?

Federal net neutrality legislation has split politicians largely along partisan political lines—with President Obama imposing net neutrality restrictions, President Trump repealing them and President...

America’s biggest cities have 5.5 million empty homes

While the housing market is historically tight and seemingly less affordable by the day, the largest U.S. cities have a surprisingly large stock of...

Why we shouldn’t fear AI destroying hundreds of millions of jobs

Workers, entrepreneurs, and companies should explore ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into their workflows and businesses—and give the job displacement fears a rest. I recently...

Year of the e-bike

Electric bikes are gaining momentum fast. Why—and how—cities and states are helping more consumers get on board. In the quest to electrify the transportation sector,...

RealPage reports rent-to-income ratio flip

RealPage reported this month that wages are outpacing rents by a widening margin. Moody's Analytics tells a much different tale. After reporting...

Yardi and property managers sued over revenue management software

Property management software firm Yardi Systems was sued in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on September 8 over its...

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