People in the United States and other developed countries are losing faith in the capitalist system to improve their lives, according to a new global poll commissioned by the World Economic Forum, published on the eve of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

In an instant, I didn’t know if I’d get to see my daughter turn 6.

I’m in my 30’s and if not for inheritance bailing me out of my bad luck and poor life decisions in my 20’s and early 30's, I would be homeless or in public housing. Got two rental properties gifted to me and cash worth $650k all combined, which just a fraction of the total will get. Having a safety net helps cushion the blow of failure. Screwed up in life so many times.

The tragic story of a family ravaged by the U.S. immigration system.

Setting goals is critical for every organisation because goals determine the broad vision and direction for any business. The best goals will align with the company mission, vision and culture and describe the business' longer term aspirations before laying out specific actions. Do you know the difference between goals and objectives and how are they related? Without objectives, goals have little support and can be difficult to reach.

Death was the great leveller, but new life-extension technologies will widen the gap between the haves and havenots

There’s a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company, in playing for the team that’s winning big.

Rajeev Behera is the CEO of Reflektive, a platform for managing employees performance and goals, husband, and father. Behera believes that the key to successfully moving forward in life is aggressive short-term goals paired with real time feedback. He believes that many of the principles and methods from the corporate world, can be implemented into individuals personal lives to help them achieve work-life balance. Behera notes, “that over the course of time, work-life balance will change.

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At 107, Anthony Mancinelli has been cutting clients’ hair for 96 years. And counting.

She’s transfixing! Miss Spain, Angela Ponce, the first openly transgender contestant in the 66-year history of the Miss Universe pageant, is getting rave reviews for her bikini body, runway glamour and message of inclusion. “I always say: Having a vagina didn’t transform me into a woman,” the post-op trans gal told reporters as the pageant got underway last week in Bangkok, Thailand.

Part of creating your dream life is finding financial freedom and abundance. That means having enough money so that you no longer worry or stress about how you're going to pay your bills. You want enough money to live comfortably and happily.

Amid sexual abuse lawsuits and dwindling membership, the Boy Scouts of America may file for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Is nothing sacred?

There was once a path to a stable and prosperous life in America that has since closed off. It was a well-traveled path for many Americans: Graduate from high school and get a job, typically with a local manufacturer or one of the service industries associated with it, and earn enough to support a family. The idea was not only that it was possible to achieve this kind of success, but that anyone could achieve it—the American dream. That dream defines my family’s history, and its disappearance calls me to action today.

The death last month of Christian missionary John Allen Chau, at the hands of the uncontacted island tribe he had hoped to evangelize, triggered a thorny debate. Was the Indian government, which oversees North Sentinel Island, keeping the people of this tribe in a glass museum box or protecting their freedom? Some scientists assert that these isolated tribes cannot survive without some intervention from outside.

Humans can get by in the most basic of shelters, can scratch together a meal from the most humble of ingredients. But we can’t survive without clean water. And in places where water is scarce—the world’s deserts, for example—getting water to people requires feats of engineering and irrigation that can be cumbersome and expensive.

by Rudyard Kipling

In his new book, David Graeber examines the decoupling of work from meaningful activity.

Researchers at MIT said 30 percent of Uber and Lyft drivers are actually losing money after taking car expenses into account, while most drivers earn less than minimum wage.

For the first time ever, US corporations have begun reporting pay ratio data. And a movement is building to crack down on companies that don’t share the wealth

A woman looks for groceries and goods in a supermarket in Caracas.

One in 11 Americans pays for space to store the material overflow of the American dream

It has to do with grossness and frequency.

It’s possible that they aren’t, it’s just that you have trouble reading neutral facial expressions because of your family experience, a new study suggests.

Mr. Goodall wanted to die because of his deteriorating health, and he flew to Switzerland to find legal services to assist him, choosing Beethoven for his last song.

Officials have told them to leave, and offered them modern homes, but the residents of Zhong cave in remote southwestern China are determined to stay.

Avocado Index Shows Millennials Hardest Hit In Inflation-Per-Generation Measure. The generational price index showing inflation per generation indicates that over the last 5 years, millennial inflation has increased 14% more than baby boomer inflation.

Employers are bellyaching about a lack of workers to fill jobs, but they're not willing to pay more to attract them.

A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers.

The New Zealand company behind a landmark trial of a four-day working week has concluded it an unmitigated success, with 78% of employees feeling they were able to successfully manage their work-life balance, an increase of 24%. Two-hundred-and-forty staff at Perpetual Guardian, a company which manages trusts, wills and estate planning, trialled a four-day working week over March and April, working four, eight-hour days but getting paid for five.

Don't like your Uber rating? Well, in a not-so-distant future, you just might have a score for everything else in your life.

As living expenses rise but wage growth remains subdued, Australians are increasingly needing to overspend and dip into their savings. That was the key finding of ME Bank's latest "financial comfort" report, which surveyed 1,500 people about how they perceived their own financial wellbeing in the first half of 2018. The steepest decline was observed when people were asked how confident they felt about their short-term cash savings.

A boom in construction for the high end of the market comes as prices continue to rise for the poorest.

Children face a lower risk of suicidal behavior if their parents are religious, according to new research published in JAMA Psychiatry. The study found that parents’ belief in the importance of religion was associated with a lower risk for suicidal behavior by their children, regardless of a child’s own beliefs.