Te-Ping Chen

4 weeks ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Steven Nelson |Tripti Lahiri |Te-Ping Chen |Rebecca Munson

Quotes of the Day:“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.“– E. O. Wilson“You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at language. It begins in the language.”– Joseph Brodsky"Under the influence of great fear, almost everybody becomes superstitious.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Te-Ping Chen |Hannah Yoon

By Te-Ping Chen | Photographs and video by Hannah Yoon for WSJ PHILADELPHIA—Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.  Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Te-Ping Chen |Scott Calvert

April 26, 2025 10:00 am ETState and local governments rolled out the red carpet to federal workers who were laid off en masse this year. But months after losing their jobs, many federal applicants are still waiting to get through the door.   Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

2 months ago | wsj.com | Te-Ping Chen

Teamsters endorse the duties, but not all of labor is sold on the plan; ‘When the economy starts tanking, the first thing people don’t buy are cars’At President Trump’s Rose Garden announcement this week rolling out worldwide tariffs, just one other person spoke alongside him: a former auto worker from Detroit whom he invited to address the crowd. “My entire life I have watched plant after plant after plant—in Detroit and in the metro Detroit area—close,” Brian Pannebecker told the crowd.

2 months ago | wsj.com | Te-Ping Chen |Roshan Fernandez

Lewis, who left the council this year, was unmoved. “We can’t even seem to get people to mow their lawns these days. I don’t know how we’re going to keep chicken coops clean,” she told the crowd before voting “nay” on the measure, which would have allowed backyard chickens at some homes. Her grandmother, who raised chickens, always told her they were “dirty birds,” she said in an interview. Lewis had other concerns, including bird flu. “I hate to be a Debbie Downer,” the 68-year old said.