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Roberta Kwok

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Freelance science writer. Bylines @NYTimes @NewYorker @Southern_Review @NatureNews. 2020-21 Project Fellow at @KSJatMIT.
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Is AI Turning Back the Clock on the Job Market?

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By Roberta Kwok
| Yahoo Finance
For more than a century, the effect of technology on jobs followed a clear trend: as machines took over manual tasks, blue-collar professions suffered, while white-collar occupations enjoyed gains. But AI seems poised to follow the opposite trend. The ability of AI to handle office tasks, such as copywriting and data analysis, seems more likely to harm white-collar jobs than blue-collar jobs, where hands-on skills remain paramount.
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Why It’s So Hard to Battle Corporate Debt with Policy

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By Roberta Kwok
| Yahoo Finance
When Donald Trump signed the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), it seemed like a huge win for corporations. The new law slashed the corporate tax rate from as high as 39 percent to a flat 21 percent. But beneath that business-friendly benefit lurked some less-favorable changes to how companies calculate their tax burden, including a limit on the amount of debt interest that companies could write off.
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The Growth Factor Fueling Industry Behemoths

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By Roberta Kwok
| Yahoo Finance
Consider a few types of furniture companies: There’s the small artisan firm, where a carpenter builds one-of-a-kind armoires and cabinets. There’s the medium-sized chain like Crate & Barrel, with about 100 stores in North America and a sprinkling of international locations. And then there’s IKEA. Since its founding in 1943, the Swedish furniture behemoth has expanded to 487 locations around the globe.
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