In 2023, Anna-Marie Ortiz worked remotely for a fintech startup, where she earned $60,000 a year. She liked the job well enough, but wasn’t sure what her future at the company would look like. “I realized I can’t wait around for other people’s dreams, and that’s when I decided to go all in on mine,” she tells CNBC Make It. That July, Ortiz used the last of her $2,000 in
(Reuters) – General Motors (NYSE:)’ self-driving car unit, Cruise, admitted on Thursday to submitting a false report to influence a federal investigation and will pay a $500,000 fine as part of a deferred prosecution agreement, the Justice Department said. Source link
The UK’s unemployment rate has risen, official figures suggest, while pay growth continues to slow. The rate of unemployment stood at 4.3% in the three months to September, up from 4% the previous quarter. However, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) urged caution over giving too much weight to its latest jobs figures due to issues with how it gathers the data. While wage growth has eased, pay is still
Getty Images Millions of households in England and Wales will struggle to pay their water bills when they go up, a consumer watchdog has warned. The water regulator, Ofwat, has provisionally said bills would rise by an average of £19 a year between 2025 and 2030 – a 21% increase over that period. But in a survey of 9,500 households carried out by the Consumer Council for Water (CCW), some
