The Bottom Line

Featured interview with Kat Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Beneficial State Bank.   Megan Kamerick reports on why front-line bank jobs are generally so miserable.   Karan Chopra explores the need for employers and educators to build new bridges in an era of lifelong learning.

Featured interview with Erica Volini, U.S. Human Capital leader for Deloitte Consulting.   Marty Goldensohn reports on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's call for companies to show how they're making a "positive contribution to society."   Natalie Foster comments on how the retail industry is being decimated by avarice, not just Amazon.  

Featured interview with Nick Hanauer, co-founder of Second Avenue Partners.   Larry Buhl reports on the steady erosion of overtime pay in America.   Karan Chopra explains how great social benefits can result when "agents of innovation" combine with "agents of scale."

Featured interview with Dan Teran, co-founder and CEO of Managed by Q.   Molly Nugent reports on MIT professor Zeynep Ton's Good Jobs Strategy.   Natalie Foster explores why the basic income experiment underway in Stockton, Calif., is so significant.

Featured interview with Naturade CEO Claude Tellis and Kareem Cook, the company's chief marketing officer.   Bridget Huber reports on Impact America Fund's efforts to help improve low- to moderate-income areas.   Karan Chopra lays out what small rice farmers in West Africa can teach American business leaders.

Featured interview with Spencer Thompson, founder and president of Sokanu.   Bridget Huber reports on the skills that today's teens will need to succeed in the workplace of tomorrow.   Natalie Foster explores how and why the private sector is starting to make real strides on paid parental leave.

Featured interview with Daniel Weiss, managing partner at Angeleno Group.   Marty Goldensohn reports on Coca-Cola's "World Without Waste" sustainable packaging campaign.   Rachel Schneider ponders whether the United States can ever have lasting full employment.

Featured interview with Pager CEO Walter Jin.   Megan Kamerick reports on the mental-health app Woebot.   Kanyi Maqubela explores the fine line "between exploitative and empowering" in consumer finance.      

Featured interview with Quinten Farmer, co-founder and chief operating officer at Even.   Molly Nugent reports on one woman's struggles to cope with her own financial instability.   Rachel Schneider examines how our assumptions about gender are shaping the future of work.

Featured interview with O'Reilly Media CEO Tim O'Reilly.   Bridget Huber reports on how we seem to be facing less the rise of robot overlords and more the rise of robot coworkers.   Kanyi Maqubela considers whether censorship in China is as much about business as it is about politics.