Despite White House claims, prices on key staples are on the rise, including cranberry sauce and potatoes. But official data actually suggests that prices are going up. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts suggest turkey prices will be about 40 percent higher than this time last year, largely because of supply shortages tied to … [Read more…]
Symone Austin, 33, was earning $131,000 annually as a UX designer when she lost her job in January 2025, not long after she had purchased her house in North Carolina. Here is how she has managed to pay her $2,800 mortgage and her student loans for the past 10 months despite the loss.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. The economy added only 119,000 payroll jobs in September. Revisions to August and July erased another 33,000 positions (the country actually lost 4,000 jobs … [Read more…]
Faced with cuts imposed by the United States and other countries, the World Health Organization must lay off thousands of staff, including several hundred in Geneva. The World Health Organization (WHO), headquartered in Geneva, must let go of 1,282 staff worldwide by June 2026 due to cuts imposed by the United States and other countries. … [Read more…]
This week brought more bad news for the international ecosystem on the shores of Lake Geneva. UNICEF and the WHO have announced new layoffs and relocations, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has not been spared. Some of the world’s largest global health donors—including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis … [Read more…]
For years, the world of grants, contracts, and compliance has been defined by manual tasks: reviewing dense donor agreements line by line, tracking deadlines with spreadsheets, drafting subawards from outdated templates, and racing to fix issues during audits. If you’ve worked in government, NGOs, philanthropy, or international development, you know the drill. Contract teams are … [Read more…]
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Stephani Cherkaoui has a pot of Moroccan tea on the kitchen stove in her townhome, half an hour outside Washington, D.C. Her kids’ artwork — her “favorite collection” — adorns the walls. Her cat, Dublin, settles himself on a kitchen chair. Over the past five months, Cherkaoui has had time to … [Read more…]
After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people They call themselves the “lifeboat crew”. After losing their jobs abruptly when the Trump administration slashed US overseas aid earlier this year, a group of dedicated workers decided to … [Read more…]