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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with May Lee, a 60-year-old seasonal worker in Antarctica and former marketing and communications manager at HP. She worked at the McMurdo Station in 2025 and plans to return this year. It has been edited for length and clarity.After a layoff from HP in 2025, I decided to try something completely new and take a job in Antarctica as a seasonal supply technician at — at 59.My job, like the majority of jobs at McMurdo Station, followed what are known as “town hours,” which are from 7:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Monday…

On Thursday, nearly one million Americans will start receiving $500 checks from the Trump administration under its new Affordable Care Act refund program.The payments are meant for a narrow group of people who bought their own health insurance through HealthCare.gov, the federally run ACA marketplace.To be eligible, consumers must have enrolled in a HealthCare.gov plan and paid the full cost of their premiums without receiving federal premium tax credits or other financial assistance.In a letter accompanying the checks, Trump said the refunds are for people who use HealthCare.gov, “but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their…

A new startup wants to give wealthy tech insiders access to some of the hottest private-company deals.Get Access has launched a platform that pools money from individual investors so they can invest together in later-stage startup funding rounds that are usually limited to venture firms and large institutions, from Series B onward. The deals are referred by Get Access contributors, including mega AI investor Elad Gil and Box CEO Aaron Levie. Its first deals include Crusoe’s recent $3.9 billion size funding round, according to the startup’s CEO Michael Goodbody. The startup has now raised $5 million at an $85 million…

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, especially if you live in one of these 20 small cities.WalletHub compared more than 1,300 US cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 to identify the best places to live.The analysis evaluated the cities using 45 “key indicators of livability,” and it ranked the cities across five categories: affordability, economic health, education and health, quality of life, and safety.Within those five categories, it considered different criteria, such as median household income, job growth, unemployment rate, high school graduation rate, average commute time, parks per capita, violent crime rate, and pedestrian fatalities per capita.For…

Walmart is aiming to make it as easy as possible for its customers to find exactly what they want.The retailer is leveraging three new tools tied to its digital shelf labels for both customers and store associates to better find products. It’s the latest part of the company’s push to modernize its technology and incorporate artificial intelligence into its business.”We are people-led, tech-powered,” said Greg Cathey, Walmart’s senior vice president of digital transformation. “But the way we look at it is AI as a way to help associates do their job and free up time to allow them to invest…

Peter Keane-Rivera has specific criteria when he shops for investment properties.The Seattle-based millennial, who supplements his engineering salary with rental income, looks for large homes — at least 3,000 square feet — with unfinished basements, which give him room to add value.His strategy is to buy and hold long-term rentals, then rent them out by the room.”The more rooms, the more cash flow,” Keane-Rivera, who has 19 units across three properties, told Business Insider.He opened the books on his latest acquisition: a roughly 100-year-old, 3,900-square-foot house in Kent, Washington. Business Insider reviewed mortgage statements confirming his ownership of the property.…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Amy Suto, a 32-year-old freelance writer based in San Francisco. It has been edited for length and clarity.I started my career in Hollywood as a TV writer. By 2020, I was ghostwriting memoirs and traveling the world with my partner, now husband, Kyle Cords, to work with clients. Kyle was also a freelancer.In June 2023, I started a Substack documenting the realities of being a working writer. People kept asking me, “How do you get these jobs?” In the same year, I published the book “Six-Figure Freelance Writer” to answer that…

Building the spreadsheet will soon be AI’s job at Ford. But fixing the robots? The company still needs a human for that.On Wednesday, Ford CEO Jim Farley told reporters during Ford’s Accelerate the Essential Economy conference in Detroit that the “first inning” of the AI boom has had very different effects on vocational work and informational work.”If you work in finance doing spreadsheets, or you’re in a call center, or you’re an entry-level programmer,” he said, “those jobs are definitely going to be changed, eliminated with at least this first inning of AI.”Meanwhile, “AI as more of a companion to…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lemuel Bray, 85, who moved to the Philippines to better afford long-term care. He said his cost of living is lower, and the care he is receiving exceeds what he received in the US. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.I grew up with nine siblings. My father had children from a second wife after my mom died of cervical cancer. I’m a disabled veteran and get disability compensation. I was a hospital foreman in the Navy for over 13 years, two of which were in Vietnam.I suffered a…

The International Criminal Court in The Hague on Sept. 23. Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption i Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP via Getty Images If you want to see how far U.S. sanctions can reach, ask Kimberly Prost’s Alexa. After the United States sanctioned her, the Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court began losing access to services from companies in different countries. Her credit cards were also canceled. “You start to lose services from American companies, Amazon, Google, potentially Apple, whatever it may be,” she told Morning Edition. “Completely randomly, though, you don’t know when something’s…