Brazil’s Best Employers of 2026

Brazil’s Best Employers of 2026

The top-ranked Brazil-based employer is accounting firm Contabilizei (no. 5), which specializes in helping small businesses and entrepreneurs with financial services from managing expenses and invoices to taxes. As the number of new small businesses in the country continues to grow, and more people flock to digital banks, innovative fintechs like Contabilizei have an opportunity…

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Australia’s Best Employers of 2026

Australia’s Best Employers of 2026

TIME and Statista have launched the 2026 list of Best Employers, based on independent employee surveys conducted in countries around the world. In Australia, Statista gathered 200,000 evaluations from employees across a wide range of sectors. These surveys asked open-ended questions about employees’ willingness to recommend their own employer and their willingness to recommend other…

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Americans Feel Guilty Spending on Joy Amid Rising Costs

Americans Feel Guilty Spending on Joy Amid Rising Costs

When money is tight, 47% of respondents seek lower-cost or free ways to experience joy, while 42% save up before spending. Some make steeper trade-offs: 20% cut back on necessities, and 13% take on debt or use credit. In the previous three months before the survey, 38% of respondents cut back on dining out, 34%…

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Dolly Parton’s Cause of Death Revealed

Dolly Parton’s Cause of Death Revealed

More details have come to light surrounding Dolly Parton‘s passing. Reps for the “Jolene” singer—who died at age 80 on Aug. 25, four days after she was hospitalized in Nashville, Tenn.—shared that her cause of death was cancer. “After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer,” her team said in a statement to People, “Dolly…

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In Books, the California Promise and a Century of Reinvention

In Books, the California Promise and a Century of Reinvention

‘Cannery Row’ by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck is the novelist of early California. His canonical works, namely Of Mice and Men and the epics East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath, all contain characters searching for something better in the midst of hardships. But Steinbeck’s 1945 novel Cannery Row—a short, ambiguous, often hilarious, quietly…

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