Author: Daniel snow

How to bounce back, rebuild confidence after losing your job

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From the tech industry to the federal government, thousands of American workers have been affected by widespread layoffs in 2025.This year, U.S.-based employers announced 275,240 job cuts in March, a 205% increase compared to March 2024, according to outplacement services firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.If you recently found yourself unexpectedly back on the job market, you’re in good company.”I always say to people that it’s almost rare to find someone these days who hasn’t experienced a layoff,” says NYC-based career coach Eliana Goldstein.While losing your job can be demoralizing, it’s essential to remember that a layoff is not a reflection…

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Qatari PM denies jumbo jet gift to Trump is bribery

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meet in Doha, Qatar, on May 14, 2025.Brian Snyder | ReutersQatar’s prime minister on Tuesday denied accusations that Doha’s offer of an estimated-$400 million Boeing 747 jet to U.S. President Donald Trump was an attempt to curry favor with the White House administration.”I call it an exchange between two countries. And basically the relationship that we have between Qatar and the United States is a very institutional relationship,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said. “The plane story is a ministry of defense to department of defense transaction, which…

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Student loan delinquencies risk ‘spillovers’ to other debts, NY Fed

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The Trump administration’s resumption of collection efforts on defaulted federal student loans has far-reaching consequences for delinquent borrowers.For starters, borrowers who are in default may have wages, tax returns and Social Security payments garnished.But involuntary collections could also have a “spillover effect,” which puts consumers at risk of falling behind on other debt repayments, according to a recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,As collection activity restarts, disposable income falls”We were obviously somewhat concerned about potential spillovers to delinquencies on other types of debt,” the New York Fed researchers said on a press call earlier this month.”During the period where people…

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FDA outlines stricter Covid vaccine approval standards

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Brandon Guerrero, 34, of Compton, receives both a flu and COVID-19 vaccine at CVS in Huntington Park on August 28, 2024.Christina House | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesThe Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday outlined new regulatory guidance for future Covid-19 vaccine boosters, setting stricter approval standards for healthy Americans. The FDA recommended different standards of evidence for approval based on patients’ risk of getting severely sick from Covid, according to a paper published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper’s authors are FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad, an outspoken critic of the pharmaceutical industry…

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Tips for new grads to negotiate their salaries

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For some new graduates, the prospect of negotiating a job offer is even scarier than final exams.Banking app Chime conducted a survey of 2,000 recent higher education graduates in April to determine their biggest career and financial concerns.According to the survey, 54% of new grads said that they find negotiating a salary to be “more painful than breaking up with a partner.”There are a couple reasons that new grads find salary negotiations so formidable, says Janelle Sallenave, Chime’s chief spending officer.Many new grads have rarely, if ever, had to negotiate a job offer before: “It’s not something that one does…

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