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362K workers have gone on strike this year

🛝 The childcare cliff

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Green

The White House’s climate jobs training program aims to put 20K people to work in its first year

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SnacksWrap

Earnings Wrap: FedEx, General Mills, and KB Home

FRIED

The Crypto Catch-Up…

Starbucks has 383B latte varieties

🌳 Biden’s green-collar jobs

Liftoff (Rocket Lab)

Satellite

SpaceX rival Rocket Lab stumbles as the reusable-rocket industry takes off

Pooch

Walmart opens its first pet-services center to grow its slice of the $320B furry industry

Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 live with family

🚀 Rocket Lab’s blast was off

Bread and circuses (Richard A. Brooks/Getty Images)

Thrill

Disney’s pouring $60B into its parks-and-cruises biz as cable and streaming struggle

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FitCheck

H&M is now charging for returns as more retailers discourage customers’ send-it-back habits

DEFI(NE)

Heard on the Block: “total value locked”

The US national debt passed $33T for the first time

🎢 Disney’s $60B park play

Drilling for liquid gold (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Slick

California sues oil titans, saying they deceived the public on climate change

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Struck

With the UAW on strike, auto workers and carmakers buckle up for a long and bumpy ride

TikTok now has a Billboard Top 50 chart of viral songs

☀️ California vs. Big Oil

Feels like the ’90s again (Santi Visalli/Getty Images)

BARBARBAR

Hackers of MGM and Caesars up the ante as cybercrime crashes the corporate party

This painting sold for $8 million… and everyday investors profited

US restaurant tipping fell to 19.4% last quarter, the lowest since the start of the pandemic

🎰 MGM and Caesars' hackpot

When the buffet is already empty (Jeff Greenberg/Getty Images)

SkyClubbin’

Delta overhauls its loyalty program as more Americans splurge for status in the skies

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Coverage

Car-insurance rates spike the most in 47 years, and they aren’t the only premiums rising

BYENANCE

Barbie toy sales are up 25% since the “Barbie” movie came out

✈️ Delta’s loyalty test

It’s pronounced en-vidia (Kim Kulish/Getty Images)

Chipper

Chip startups are in an investment slump as Nvidia takes the AI spotlight — for now

RICHISH

Americans’ wealth hits an all-time high, but don’t look at their bank accounts

US car-insurance prices have soared nearly 20% in the past year

💬 The Nvidia effect

It’s a double-double (Leonard Ortiz/Getty Images)

2FOR1

Fast-food minimum wages are likely to rise in California as labor makes gains during hot strike summer

Hydrated

Pepsi introduces Gatorade Water, doubling down on the functional-bev trend with H2O

Unpacked

Snacks Unpacked: Apple goes all in on USB-C with its priciest iPhone yet

After Mexico’s presidential election, each branch of its government will be led by a woman

🍟 California’s $20 min wage

Uncrustables’ new sibling (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Jelly

PB&J icon Smucker buys Hostess for $5.6B as the snackification of America intensifies

A credit card where zero adds up to a number of benefits

Fee-ride

BMW ends its heated-seats subscription as carmakers embrace the monthly model

Heard on the Block: “phishing”

Just 3% of US workers wear “business professional” clothes to work

🥜 Smucker’s $5.6B Twinkie bet