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2025-06-06T19:14:56Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. I ranked four different store-bought barbecue sauces from worst to best. They all paired well with chicken nuggets, though some were thicker and more flavorful than others. I liked the barbecue sauces from Sweet Baby Ray’s the most, including the no-sugar-added variety. Barbecue season is here, so I made it my mission…

Health services and restaurant gigs are in strong demand, while office jobs are not.May’s jobs report out Friday morning showed the US added 139,000 new jobs that month. Adding in March and April’s numbers, that means that there are 406,000 more employed workers now than in February.But over those last three months, gains have been tightly concentrated in two sectors, while the rest of the labor market has been much flatter.Employment in private education and health services jumped by 252,000 in May from February, with robust growth at hospitals and individual and family services.Employment in leisure and hospitality rose by…

2025-06-06T18:11:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. YouTube is adding a new tool to let creators change thumbnails for videos in different languages. It’s part of a push by YouTube to help videos travel globally. AI-powered dubbing is a top priority among YouTube stars like MrBeast. YouTube is releasing a new feature to help creators spread their content around…

Congressional Republicans are siding with Donald Trump in the messy divorce between the president and Elon Musk, an optimistic sign for eventual passage of a tax cut bill at the root of the two billionaires’ public feud.Lawmakers are largely taking their cues from Trump and sticking by the $3 trillion bill at the center of the White House’s economic agenda. Musk, the biggest political donor of the 2024 cycle, has threatened to help primary anyone who votes for the legislation, but lawmakers are betting that staying in the president’s good graces is the safer path to political survival.”The tax bill…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Eileen Perry, a 57-year-old from North Carolina. Perry entered a home equity agreement with the financial services company Unlock to access her home equity. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I’m originally from New Jersey, where I lived with my husband and my son. In 2023, my husband passed away suddenly from pancreatic cancer. He left me well-off enough that I was able to buy a home in North Carolina for $260,000 outright, in cash.Unfortunately, timing is everything. I had an on-the-job injury; I broke my back, and I’m…

Venture capital juggernaut Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) pulled a power move at this year’s Tech Week — and it’s become the conference’s most compelling niche drama.Tech Week, whose current iteration was started by A16z in 2022, returned to New York City this month with a full calendar of events just as the city started heating up for summer. The conference’s “decentralized” nature means anyone can throw an event and apply to have it added to the official calendar, provided they follow a set of rules.However, one of this year’s new rules has drawn criticism from some organizers and attendees: Official tech…

Automation platform Quadient announced the acquisition of Serensia, a French electronic invoicing platform provider accredited by the French government as a Partner Dematerialization Platform. With ownership of a Peppol access point—a secure gateway for document exchange—Quadient can now offer a compliant, end-to-end e-invoicing solution to the millions of companies across Europe that will be required to transition to electronic invoicing under upcoming regulatory mandates. … Accounting solutions provider Sage announced a partnership with CPA.com, which licenses select AICPA resources to train Sage Copilot, its generative AI assistant designed to support accountants and finance teams with authoritative, context-aware guidance. The announcement…

President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans he is open to a state and local tax deduction cap lower than the $40,000 in the House-passed version of his giant tax bill, a person familiar with the matter said. Trump signaled his position in a meeting with Senate Finance Committee Republicans on Wednesday, and the comments added momentum to Senate GOP efforts to enact a lower SALT cap. That push has led to resistance from the House, with Speaker Mike Johnson telling Bloomberg TV Thursday he is fighting to keep the $40,000 cap as it is. After the White House meeting Wednesday, Senate Finance Committee…

2025-06-06T14:20:54Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. As a Costco employee of 19 years, I always look forward to browsing the aisles for new products. This June, Costco is carrying lots of great summer-focused items. The warehouse also has lots of tasty new food items like crispy beef tacos and a strawberry cake. Summer is quickly approaching, which means…

Descendants of wealthy families — or so they say — are flexing their lineage for millions of views.A slew of TikTok videos of people shouting out their family’s involvement in industry giants have gone viral. This trend, known as the “holy airball,” is set to rapper Jeezy’s “Soul Survivor.””Told her my dad runs a makeup company,” Dhruv Amin, the son of ELF Cosmetics CEO Tarang Amin, posted on TikTok, in one example.”She said, ‘Oh like a boutique,'” the next slide read. Then the reveal, captioned: “HOLY AIRBALL.”Some commenters immediately recognized the satirical videos as jokes, while others lamented over their…