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CEO Exits Fall 26% as Firms Cut Management Layers Instead
Boards are keeping chief executives in place while companies strip out the management tier beneath them, new turnover and workforce data show.
How Weekly Jobless Claims Numbers Get Made
The Labor Department's Thursday initial claims figure passes through two separate state filings and a federal seasonal-adjustment step before it reaches markets, and a related rate decides who gets extra weeks of benefits.
How Congress Counts Electoral Votes Under the Reformed Rules
The 2022 rewrite of the Electoral Count Act set a one-fifth objection threshold, named the state executive as the single certifying official, and made the presiding officer's role ministerial.
Trump Cuts Steel Tariffs To 25%
-origin metal, the Federal Register shows.
How Community Notes decides which fact-checks the public actually sees
A note doesn't go public because a majority of raters like it — it goes public only when people who usually disagree agree it helps, a design choice now shaping correction systems on both X and Meta's apps.
How an INTERPOL Red Notice Actually Works
A Red Notice looks like a global arrest warrant, but INTERPOL itself says it cannot compel any country to make an arrest — the real power, and the real limits, sit elsewhere.
How a Continuing Resolution Actually Funds the Government
Congress has finished its full appropriations process on time only three times in 47 years, making stopgap spending bills the routine way agencies stay funded.
What an SBA 7(a) Loan Really Costs Small Business Owners
Beyond the interest rate, the SBA's most popular loan program comes with an upfront guaranty fee and a separate annual service fee, and the agency — not the bank — sets the ceiling on both.
The size of the independent workforce is a measurement choice, not a fact
9 million independent contractors. 8 million businesses without employees. Here is why both are right, and how to tell which number you actually need.
How Section 220 Lets Delaware Stockholders Demand Corporate Records
The Delaware General Corporation Law gives stockholders a narrow but well-tested tool to inspect a company's internal records before deciding whether to sue — and a 2025 legislative overhaul has redrawn its edges.
37% Top Tax Bracket Doesn't Apply to All Income
IRS Revenue Procedure 2025-32 sets the 2026 federal income tax brackets, and the mechanism behind them trips up more taxpayers than the numbers themselves.
How the WARN Act's 60-Day Clock Actually Works
The federal law behind mass layoff notices covers most large employers but leaves real gaps, and its penalties are lighter than many workers assume.
What a News Desert Actually Measures — and What It Misses
The county-level count is the best supply map local journalism has, and it was never built to tell you whether anyone is at the council meeting.
Prime Is 6.75%: How That Number Reaches Your Loan
Banks post the prime rate, the Fed publishes it, and your note decides when it lands. The spread and the reset date do more work than the headline number.
Bid Protests: How the 100-Day Clock Actually Works
A protest freezes a federal contract award long before GAO rules on the merits — the automatic stay, not the final decision, is usually what determines the outcome.
What qualified immunity actually shields government officials from
The doctrine is not immunity from all lawsuits. It is a specific, court-made rule about what a plaintiff must prove before a case against an official can go to trial.
Why Substack keeps 10% of subscriber revenue and two rivals keep 0%
Substack, Ghost and beehiiv publish three different answers to what a publishing platform should take from a paid subscription — and their own numbers show which one is actually cheaper depends on how big the list already is.
What grain basis measures, and why it swings by region
Basis is the cash price minus the futures price, and it moved sharply in 2024-2025 — here is what sets it and how to read it.
What the 83(b) Election Actually Does, and Why 30 Days Is Absolute
The election trades a small tax bill today for a fixed measuring date on founder stock — and the statute gives you 30 days from transfer, with no general power for the IRS to forgive a late filing.
How States Decide Who Draws Congressional District Lines
The Constitution hands redistricting to state legislatures, but 18 states now route some or all of the job through a commission instead.
Developing Countries' Debt Payments Hit A 50-Year High
Low- and middle-income nations paid $741 billion more in debt service than they received in new financing from 2022 to 2024, the widest such gap in five decades, World Bank data show.
How Ballot Curing Turns a Rejected Signature Into a Counted Vote
A mismatched or missing signature doesn't end a mail ballot's chances. Election offices flag it, notify the voter, and give them a fixed window to fix it — a process with its own deadlines, tiers of review, and paper trail.
What the EU's content-moderation database actually discloses, and what it doesn't
The DSA Transparency Database logs every platform takedown across the bloc in near-real time. Researchers say its categories are too vague to show what's really being removed.
The Single Objection That Can Freeze a UN Sanctions Case
Placing a name on a United Nations sanctions list takes agreement from all fifteen Security Council members.
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