A new report is saying the quiet part outloud -- most of Americans do not hold quality jobs. My latest @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Between the Trump Administration declaring private accounts a red flag for foreign students and prospective employers using AI to find fake applicants, the old rules are becoming obsolete. Fiona Riley and I report for our latest @forbes.com weekend feature: www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Success isn't owned, it's rented; youth is a mindset, embrace it; collect experiences over promotions. Those are just some of the best career advice from this year's commencement speakers. Check out the rest (which we'll be updating!) below: www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Why one CTO still deploys code every week, how hired-hands at some of the largest companies in the world became billionaires and why it could get harder to ditch the corporate grind in this week's @forbes.com Careers newsletter: www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Fewer foreign-born workers are looking for jobs in the U.S. plus why shareholders vote down anti-DEI proposals, missed payments and layoffs at Selena Gomez's Wondermind and Meta's military ambitions in today's @forbes.com Careers newsletter. www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

The National Science Foundation has halted all funding activities. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: Elon Musk says he’ll spend more time at Tesla but he’s not offering any near-term fixes to its sagging sales and brand image as market conditions get tougher. The easiest fix would be a hit new EV but none is on the horizon #Tesla #electricvehicles www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

There’s a surprising name lurking in the rankings of startups that have raised the most funding this year. Infinite Reality. This obscure metaverse startup claims to have raised $3 billion on a $15 billion valuation. Not all is as it seems...

Following a number of high-profile incidents of stops and device searches at the border, some employers are thinking about issuing burner phones to their U.S.-bound workers, just like they would to China. My latest for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Paging through cancelled HHS grants a few weeks ago, I noticed an alarming trend: 'DOGE' was shuttering maternal and child healthcare programs, despite what Musk and Trump were saying about 'The Birth Rate.' New from me, on the human costs of DOGE: www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Our seventh annual @forbes.com AI50 list is live! This was one of the most competitive years for the AI 50 list, which features the world's most promising AI startups. Startups are shifting focus from the AI model horserace to build applications that automate scutwork across specific domains.

New U.S. tariffs go into effect at midnight. That's set off a mad scramble as shipping firms rush to get as many ships loaded with their customers' goods to the U.S. before midnight strikes--and sent shipping costs soaring. Read my latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...

Walmart, Blackstone and others join the Burning Glass Institute in insisting that skills, not degrees, are the key to job success. Their new career website could be a game changer for 11 million jobs, from software engineer and financial manager to customer service. www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Job Growth Accelerated In March—But Unemployment Hits 4.2% As Tariffs Threaten To Send Jobless Rate Over 5%

Small Business Owners Debate Whether To Display Trump’s Tariff Costs On Receipts

Here’s why Amazon—despite being a retail giant & heavily dependent on goods manufactured in China—is positioned well to withstand the #tariff blows. Read my latest for @forbes.com below. I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments/dms ⬇️ www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

NEWS: More than 500 law firms sign on to an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie amid the firm’s legal battle against Trump’s executive order targeting its business. Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As more Big Law firms capitulate to the Trump administration, law students are left wondering: how to express their discontent with firms? More on how they're taking advantage of summer associate recruiting season in my latest for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

If private industry experience is any guide, the government’s top talent is likely to be the first out the door following the "deferred resignation" offer made to its over 2 million civilian workers. Read my latest @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Teal announced today it raised $7.5 million in funding and moving beyond just job search tools. “We’re for the intrapreneur, for the employee who wants to be an employee," founder and CEO David Fano tells me. My latest for @Forbes www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Job growth was stronger than economists anticipated last month, according to the Labor Department’s monthly nonfarm payrolls report released Friday morning, a key datapoint as investors and policymakers reassess the state of the economy ahead of the shift in power in the nation’s capital.

New: A coalition of Silicon Valley leaders — incl General Catalyst, Palantir and 8VC — are backing the New American Industrial Alliance, a trade group launched today to lobby the Trump administration on manufacturing, defense and energy. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

The U.S. needs to build much faster and much cheaper. Steel magnate Barry Zekelman is gambling $1 billion of his family’s money that he can churn out prefab apartment complexes to meet that demand. My latest @Forbes feature www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Great story from @simonemelvin.bsky.social: "RxBar cofounder, Peter Rahal, sold his first company to Kellogg's for $600 million in 2017. Now free from a five-year-long non-compete agreement, his new David bar aims to be the ultimate health supplement." www.forbes.com/sites/simone...

Double duty this year as I also had the pleasure of editing this year's @forbes.com Under 30 Retail and E-Commerce list! This year's founders were behind this year's buzziest brands, from viral products hitting retailers to new inventory-management software: www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

Guessing the family color for the PANTONE color of the year this year has been my biggest accomplishment so far thank you all <3 (My bet was on a whiskey brown if you care) www.pantone.com/color-of-the...

Had the pleasure of editing this year's @forbes.com 30 Under 30 Food and Drink list, highlighting the chefs, entrepreneurs and content creators shaping the future of food. From knife makers to vitamin shots, and chefs to influencers, take a look at the final 30 below! www.forbes.com/sites/chloes...

1/3 Over the past 3 years, more than 70 of my colleagues have left @forbes.com. Reporters who mentored me closely—and encouraged me to pursue journalism with conviction & confidence despite a discouraging media landscape—left because management wasn’t willing to pay them what they're worth.

On Forbes’ biggest day of the year - the release of ‘30 Under 30’ - we have walked off the job in a 24-hour work stoppage in protest of @forbes.com continued intransigence at the bargaining table and repeated labor law violations. (1/3)

As CEOs cut back on DEI and tell young workers to leave their politics at home, charitable giving, with an employer match, has emerged as a way for employees to bring their own values to work. My latest for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/mariag...

A few words about the big difference between PRIMARY and SECONDARY sources. Podcasters, TikTok stars and other "influencers" are getting all the attention right now, but for the most part they are secondary sources, talking about / riffing on / remixing what primary sources have gathered elsewhere

Worried about Form 1099-K? Form 1099-K introduced a requirement for reportable payment transactions—think payment app or online marketplaces. The IRS says it will treat 2024 as an additional transition year so that the reporting threshold is $5,000. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

What's motivating some tech people, including startup CEOs and college coders, to apply to Elon Musk's new agency DOGE? I spoke to a bunch of early applicants and folks around the hiring process to answer those questions (and others, like how big DOGE is supposed to be) for @forbes.com.

The best way to keep up with my writing (other than here) is through @forbes.com’a careers newsletter, which I write and send out every Tuesday. You can subscribe (for free) here: www.forbes.com/sites/career...

Will start using this more now but for now — a quick intro! My name is Maria Gracia, I’m a business reporter currently at Forbes writing about workplace news. I speak Spanish, Portuguese, French and love dogs. Follow along for news