12+ hour, 41+ min ago   (537+ words) Ford says its dealerships have thousands of open mechanic jobs that can pay six figures. The catch: very few people last long enough in the job to actually get to that level of pay. In Kent, Ohio, 39-year-old technician Ted…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (314+ words) Sluggish hiring last month closed out a year of weak employment gains even as layoffs and unemployment have also been low, per the AP . It was, in other words, a "low hire, low fire" year, as the Wall Street Journal…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (469+ words) A Tennessee university will pay a professor $500,000 and give him his job back after firing him over a social media post about Charlie Kirk's killing'then admitting it broke its own rules, the New York Times reports. Austin Peay State University…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (405+ words) A major Texas teachers union is taking the state to federal court over how officials responded to educators' online remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk after he was killed in September. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Austin, the state…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (530+ words) A Texas teachers union sued the state's education department on Tuesday, accusing it of an improper "wave of retaliation" against public school employees over their social media comments following the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk. Despite calls for…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (310+ words) It's bad news for those in default on their student loans: The federal government is going to resume garnishing wages starting next month, reports the Washington Post . The first 1,000 notices will go out on Jan. 7, and the number of notices…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (382+ words) Being the star kid in the classroom or on the team may not be the ticket to top-tier success later on, according to a sweeping new study of elite performers. Researchers led by Arne Gullich at Germany's University of Kaiserslautern-Landau…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (320+ words) Military kids on US bases are about to join the growing list of students who can't check TikTok between classes. Tucked into the $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act is a new requirement: K-12 students at schools run by the Department of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (244+ words) Harvard is quietly scrutinizing two seniors who helped thrust Larry Summers' ties to Jeffrey Epstein back into the spotlight. Sources tell the New York Times that the university has opened a confidential disciplinary investigation into students Rosie P. Couture and Lola…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (275+ words) A Wall Street Journal feature on the strange new jobs emerging in the modern world includes a remarkable stat: "LinkedIn estimates 1 in 5 Americans has a job that didn't exist in 2000." 1 in 5 Jobs Today Didn't Exist in 2000 A Wall Street Journal…...