How Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight
Alaska Airlines has trained its human flight planners to work with new artificial intelligence desig...
Alana Semuels
Semuels is a senior correspondent at TIME covering the consumer side of healthcare. She previously wrote about economics and business news. She is a four-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and she has won awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers and the Los Angeles Press Club.
Why Is It So Hard to Get Student Loan Debt Erased?
The economy wins when student loans are erased, but borrowers often struggle to access relief progra...
One Thing Flourished in the Pandemic: Trash
Several cities reported big jumps in garbage collection as people stayed home and created trash or w...
Fixing Policing Means Updating Outmoded Training
Independent police academies graduate thousands of officers a year, but there's no oversight of thei...
Laid-Off Workers Want First Dibs on Jobs
As companies begin rehiring, unions are pushing for right of recall legislation that would give firs...
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During California Wildfires, Breathing Is a Luxury
This year's record blazes has given residents a glimpse of the apocalypse
Power Cuts Loom as Bans on Shutoffs Expire
Moratoriums on power cuts are lifting for millions of customers in September.
Millions of Americans Have Lost Jobs in the Pandemic—And Robots and AI Are Replacing Them Faster Than Ever
In the pandemic economy, humans are being left behind
How COVID-19 Helped Grow Amazon's Power
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made billions during the COVID-19 pandemic as retail stores suffered, heighten...
$600 a Week in Extra Unemployment Benefits May Soon End, But Millions of Americans Still Can't Find Jobs
'It's tough to even think about what happens when July ends.'
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Segregation Has Gotten Worse, Not Better, and It's Fueling the Wealth Gap Between Black and White Americans
'Everybody thinks that something was solved back in the 60s, but no, it wasn’t really solved, it jus...
'It's a Race to the Bottom.' The Coronavirus is Cutting Into Gig Worker Incomes as the Newly Jobless Flood Apps
As companies lay off employees, competition for gig work is soaring, and prices for gigs are droppin...
Millions of Americans Facing Financial Ruin
The coronavirus has exposed the fragility of America’s safety net
The Poor Are Getting Poorer As Creditors Pursue Debts
'Things were bad before the COVID emergency, they got worse with COVID, and they’re going to get eve...
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