Good evening, this is Markets Desk with the stories shaping the conversation tonight.
American workers are sounding an alarm that goes beyond the paycheck. A new survey finds a majority of U.S. employees now support an AI sovereign wealth fund, a mechanism to hold corporations accountable as tech layoffs continue climbing. The message from labor is clear: the gains from automation should not flow in only one direction.
That anxiety has a neuroscience component, too. Researcher Brené Brown is warning that human beings are simply not wired to absorb change at the pace currently being imposed on them. Between recession fears, daily policy shifts, and accelerating automation, Brown says workers are showing genuine psychological strain. Her word for it is blunt: people are not okay.
Meanwhile, the New York Federal Reserve is offering one concrete answer to the question of how young people navigate all of this uncertainty. New research confirms that engineering graduates can expect to earn close to one hundred thousand dollars within five years of finishing school, making it among the highest-returning majors relative to the average annual cost of nearly thirty-eight thousand dollars per year for a college education. The data makes a pointed case for the value of technical credentials in an economy being reshaped by the very technology unsettling everyone else.
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