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1 day ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Jacob Zinkula |Henry Blodget
Some companies are cutting middle management positions, and the roles that remain could change significantly in the years ahead. Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn's chief economic opportunity officer, believes AI adoption — and the broader economic transformation he expects it to drive — will fundamentally change what it means to be a middle manager over the next decade.
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2 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Ayelet Sheffey |Henry Blodget
President Donald Trump is pausing one of the harshest consequences for student-loan borrowers who default on their debt. On Monday evening, the Department of Education confirmed to Business Insider that it would be pausing Social Security garnishment for defaulted student-loan borrowers after restarting collections on May 5.
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4 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Ayelet Sheffey |Henry Blodget
Thousands of student-loan borrowers are at risk of getting a smaller Social Security check this month. President Donald Trump's Department of Education said that, beginning in early June, thousands of student-loan borrowers in default could start facing garnishment of their federal benefits. "The first monthly benefit checks subject to offset are those scheduled for early June," the department said in early May.
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5 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Juliana Kaplan |Henry Blodget
Rachelle Biennestin decided to break a habit this year. The 31-year-old used to regularly visit Target to buy clothes, cat stuff, video games, and groceries, including her beloved snack: chocolate-covered pretzels. Last year, she said, she started noticing a change at her happy place, including messy shelves, fewer workers, and a shift to self-checkout. "Target used to get this rep that it was the fancier, nicer Walmart," she told BI.
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6 days ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Allie Kelly |Henry Blodget
It's a tough time to be a middle manager. Companies are looking for ways to cut costs, and mid-career employees' jobs are increasingly on the chopping block. Earlier this year, Big Tech giants like Google, Intel, and Amazon announced their plans to lay off thousands of workers, mostly managers. Last week, the trend hit Walmart, which said it will "remove layers and complexity" by reducing its labor force by 1,500 people, many of them in midlevel corporate roles.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Juliana Kaplan |Henry Blodget
The Trump administration is trying to revive a measure that would make government workers who currently enjoy strong civil-service employment protections more like those in Corporate America: easily fireable. For now, many federal workers can't be fired for their political affiliations and can only be fired for a justifiable cause. Trump's move would change that by classifying them as employees who determine or make policy.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Ayelet Sheffey |Henry Blodget
At the end of March, James Southern received a warning from his student-loan servicer stating: "Your account is seriously past due."According to a bill statement reviewed by Business Insider, his servicer suggested he put forth $9,942 to make his account current, or he could make a payment of $1,414.71 to start chipping away at his delinquent student-loan balance.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Catherine Boudreau |Henry Blodget
In April, I wrote about a federal worker who was five months shy of eligibility for a full pension of $6,000 a month when she was fired in the DOGE cuts. I received nearly 100 emails from readers, and almost all expressed how little sympathy they felt. "Welcome to the real world," several said. "Go get a job and work till you're dead like the rest of us," another wrote. "National Steel went bankrupt. US Steel bought them for nothing. Thousands lost what was promised to us," another said.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Ayelet Sheffey |Henry Blodget
From taxes to student-loan forgiveness, provisions in President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" are one step closer to affecting Americans' wallets. The House passed Trump's tax bill on Thursday morning — an expansive piece of legislation that extends the president's 2017 tax cuts and makes other key changes to the tax system, along with implementing significant changes to Medicaid and SNAP. The bill is now headed to the Senate, where it is still subject to change.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Noah Sheidlower |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bernita Clark, 82, who retired 18 years ago and has been financially comfortable since. Clark, who lives in Texas, said she never expected to retire at all until she reached her late 40s after years as a single mother. Through years of careful saving and long-term planning, she retired a few years before retirement age, though she took on part-time work in her 70s. Her words have been edited for length and clarity.
