by Sophie Hayssen | May 31, 2026 | Economy
When Shelbi Arcand graduated from The Villages Charter School in 2014, she was one of 100 kids in her graduating class. This small community of young families wasn’t surprising given that her school was designed for children whose parents worked for The Villages,...
by Sophie Hayssen | May 24, 2026 | Housing
To see an updated version of this story with interactive graphs, click here. When the power went out in ViewPoint RV & Golf Resort, resident Kath Noble, 80, recalls chaos. Food spoiled; residents in the 55-and-over community fell in the darkness; some had to be...
by Cole van Miltenburg | May 23, 2026 | Economy
One morning in April, radiologist Andrew Moriarity was listening to a podcast episode about self-driving cars when the conversation began to sound strangely familiar. “In the early days, self-driving cars actually needed twice as many people as a normal car to drive,”...
by Giulio Gnash | May 22, 2026 | Economy
Jessica Ruiz had dreamed of attending Coachella for years. So when the 26-year-old finally got her chance this spring, she found herself sitting on the grass overwhelmed. “At one point I was sitting on the floor just looking around and cried out of pure happiness and...
by Stephanie Hong | May 20, 2026 | Economy, Featured
Kevin Boyle earns a base wage of $11.35 an hour as a bartender at Bedsta in New York City. Like most servers, he makes more on tips. On his 2025 tax return, Boyle was not satisfied with his tax refund amount at all. This year, however, his finances look much better...
by Irene Milanez | May 19, 2026 | Economy, Featured
The figure on Lydia Grosswendt’s laptop ticked upward as she entered months of tips from brunch shifts, where she mixed Bloody Marys for customers as early as 9:30 in the morning. Grosswendt, a 24-year-old bartender at a Lower East Side Australian restaurant, was...
