This year is shaping up to be the worst seasonal job market since 2009. Here are the major retailers hiring — and pulling back.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
Bill Laughlin, owner of the Christmas Etc. store, works on a Santa Claus figure on the sales floor in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Retail jobs typically represent about two-thirds of seasonal hiring each year, according to jobs site Indeed.

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

It's not just Florida. Real estate boomtowns are going bust.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style
A for Sale sign with added signs with discounts in front of a topical setting

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI

ICE agents are getting a 'super check' today. Here's who is and isn't getting paid as the shutdown drags on.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
ICE officer
The Department of Homeland Security will pay federal law enforcement like ICE, border patrol, and Secret Service during the government shutdown.

Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images

Ukraine says UK-made Storm Shadow missiles joined its long mission to destroy Russia's war machine from the rear

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
STORM SHADOW low-observable, long range air launched cruise missile displayed at Paris Air Show with the MBDA logo.
Ukraine said it had used Storm Shadow missiles to strike a gunpowder plant in Russia.

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Tariffs may sound simple on paper, but they unleash a tangle of costs for small businesses

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy, Business
Jon Calma Vagara runs a side hustle that sells fishing lure stencils to US customers.
Jon Calma Vagara runs a side hustle that sells fishing lure stencils to US customers.

Jon Calma Vagara

Coca-Cola's CEO explains why its $5 billion bet on a coffee chain hasn't worked out as planned

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
A Costa Coffee sign above one of the chain's cafes
Coca-Cola is "reflecting" on its coffee business several years after acquiring Costa Coffee.

NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images

Gold is suffering its worst drop in 12 years: Billionaire investor and 'bond king' Bill Gross thinks the top may be in

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
Bill Gross
Bill Gross is the billionaire cofounder of PIMCO.

Figge Photograpy/Reuters

A second major proxy firm told investors to reject Elon Musk's $1 trillion Tesla pay deal

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025.
A second major proxy firm just told Tesla investors to reject Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay plan, warning it hands him too much power for too little performance.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says there's a key difference between AI and past job revolutions

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Technology
David Solomon
The rise of AI is a lot like other tech revolutions, just a lot quicker, David Solomon says.

Stefano Guidi/Getty Images

Family offices are booming as the superrich look to futureproof their fortunes

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style
A cyclist rides along the Marina Bay promenade, which is next to the financial business district in Singapore on May 9, 2022.
Singapore has become a global hub for the world's wealthiest families, hosting more than 2,000 single-family offices by 2024, per Julius Baer.

ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images

Subscribe to Economy