I drive for Uber and Lyft as a medical student. It's not the profitable side hustle I expected it to be.

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Medical student Porshaye Watkins poses on a walking path with a forest in the background. She is wearing a white medical coat a dress with a blue pattern, and a stethoscope around her neck.
Porshaye Watkins drives for Uber and Lyft as a side hustle.

Porshaye Watkins

Shoppers are on pace to break Black Friday online spending records and use AI more than ever as sales hit $8.6 billion

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Black Friday sales
AI-driven traffic to retail sites is expected to surge 600% compared to last year, according to Adobe.

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American money is transforming the Cotswolds into the 'Hamptons of England'

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Facade of D'Ambrosi Fine Foods
D'Ambrosi Fine Foods is an American-run business in Stow-on-the-Wold.

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As locals gossip beneath the low-beamed ceiling of a coffee shop, I ask Audrey Ann Masur to speak up.

How retailers are responding to the affordability crisis this holiday season

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Black Friday electronics shopping deals at Walmart Supercenter retail store in North Bergen, New Jersey
Retailers like Walmart are marketing affordability and value to attract increasingly cautious consumers.

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I drive for Uber and Lyft in Hawaii. I earn less than I did driving a cab, but this benefit keeps me coming back.

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Richard Detty, a ride-hailing driver in Honolulu, wears sunglasses, a dark grey Hawaiian shirt, and a kukui nut lei while smiling and giving shaka signs with both hands.
Richard Detty drives for Uber and Lyft part-time in addition to his business as an Amazon seller.

Richard Detty

Bankruptcies are on the rise. What it means, in 3 charts.

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A going out of business sign
Bankruptcies are on the rise

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Trump is changing student-loan eligibility for professional degrees. Here's what you need to know.

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President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump's administration is placing new student-loan borrowing caps on graduate and professional degrees.

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They died 'doing what they loved': The stories of workers in their 80s who died on the job

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Joyner Library and Ralph Scott
Ralph Scott, who died in 2022, worked at East Carolina University's Joyner Library for 52 years.

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Goldman Sachs flags 'growing signs of weakness' in the US jobs market as layoffs mount

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Woman holds box containing personal items while leaving office
Layoffs are on the rise triggering, Goldman economists to speculate the US job market may be softening, according to a new report.

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Vintage photos show what life was like in America's small towns a century ago

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Hermosa, South Dakota, 1927.
Hermosa, South Dakota, 1927.

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