How young people manage a financial windfall
ZeroToHero Mattia Roach still gets around Toronto on the subway. In a city where detached cottages can sell for $1 million, Mx. Roach, using their/their pronouns, still shares an apartment with…
August 2023
With TikTok and Lawsuits, Generation Z is dealing with climate change
When Calico Tria was returning home from her hula lesson on August 8, her father called. The apartment in Lahaina was gone, he said, and he was running for his…
Hawaiian Electric was warned of the system’s fragility before the Maui wildfire
Hawaiian Electric has known for years that severe weather is becoming a greater risk, but the company has done little to bolster its equipment and has failed to adopt contingency…
Cruz agrees to reduce the fleet of self-driving cars in San Francisco after the crash
Less than a day after a driverless taxi collided with a fire truck at a San Francisco intersection, Cruz on Friday approved a request from state regulators to halve the…
As student loan payments resume, Generation X struggles to save for old age
With Generation X coming within screaming distance of retirement, with its oldest members only four years away from the age at which they can start drawing Social Security, these Americans’…
In China, there are more single women than homebuyers who resist gender norms
After she signed the contract for her new apartment in southern China, Guo Miaomiao, 32, went through the mental list of what she’d enjoy as a homeowner. Leather sofa in…
Chinese nickel plants in Indonesia created needed jobs, in addition to pollution
For most of his 57 years on the island of Sulawesi, Jamal has become accustomed to scarcity, mediocre expectations and a dismal lack of jobs. People mined sand, caught fish,…
After the Maui Wildfires, Will Tourism Help or Hurt?
In the midst of responding to the wildfires on Maui that destroyed the iconic town of Lahaina and claimed more than 110 lives, Hawaii remains mostly open to tourism, despite…
China’s Evergrande, a giant developer, files for bankruptcy
China Evergrande, the real estate developer giant, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, more than two years after it defaulted on its debt payments. The company’s collapse in 2021 followed…
Credit card debt is at a new peak as some borrowers face financial stress
The New York Federal Reserve reported this month that Americans’ credit card balances rose rapidly in the second quarter, to a record high of more than $1 trillion. Federal Reserve…