Carrie Kirby

In its push to better care for its animals, Perdue is challenging everything.
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There is a distinct sound one hears well before stepping foot into the chicken house near Perdue Farms’ Salisbury, Maryland, headquarters.
It begins as a soft chorale from the outside and only grows more electric once you step over the threshold to find hundreds of fl...

Chicago Cubs star Ian Happ is selling coffee to raise money for charity.

The new generation is redefining the workplace
Alma Klein, 47, enjoys managing a team that is about one-third generation Z.
But she says she also has a list of “things they are comfortable with that would have sent me into a coma when I was a junior employee.”
Things like broadly sharing their salary figures. Requesting a one-on-one meeting with a senior manager immediately upon hiring. Disclosing mental health struggles and requesting accommodations.
Klein, SVP creative director at Arc World...

As glaciers melt, coastlines crumble and weather patterns all over the world become more chaotic, you’re probably asking yourself: What can I do to slow climate change?
If you are an investor, one thing you can do is to create a climate-friendly portfolio. But how to get started? Even if you have a sizable fund to invest, can one person really make a difference?
We asked Chicago experts and companies to weigh in, and the answer is: Yes. You can make a difference for the climate — and make mon...

While the artificial intelligence revolution holds great promise, what happens when the now-ubiquitous algorithms wreak havoc in our lives? Iowa law professors on the cutting edge of this field offer insights.

In January 2020, something momentous happened: Women outnumbered men in the paid workforce. Feminists cheered, and some economists predicted that the demographic shift would be permanent.
Then the pandemic changed everything. In the first 10 months of the Covid crisis, women lost more than 5.4 million jobs. Men lost jobs in the pandemic too, but they recouped their losses. By early 2022, there were still a million fewer women in the workforce than there had been two years earlier.
“As the vir...

Options based on your age group for getting back on track.

Fewer women than men invest their earnings1, and that needs to change. The consequences of not investing are serious—like the gender retirement gap. Women over 65 live on income that’s about 17% less than men and have a longer life expectancy. Let’s see what happened when three women took a different path.
Greater financial freedom and independence are two of the top reasons why people invest. Three women told us about the surprising ways investing improved their lives, from windfalls to life...

Legacy can mean different things to each of us as we consider our family estate planning and wealth transfer and what we hope to leave behind for the next generation. Is your priority to leave security for your children and spouse? To endow a building on the campus of your alma mater? Or is it most important that your loved ones remember you every time they hold a keepsake item or engage in a favorite tradition?
To explore strategies for wealth transfer and family estate planning, Make It Bet...

With most retirement accounts, once you reach a certain age, you’ve got to take what’s called an annual required minimum distribution (RMD). This means you take a payout from your IRA, 401(k) or other retirement account. The required amount is calculated based on your age and the account balance.

But what can you do with the RMD money you may not need right then? Let’s say your pension or other income has already got your expenses covered for the year. If that’s the case, you may be scratchin...

Seeing GameStop in the headlines today reminds me that this is one of the stores where I like to use a little hack to accrue miles even on local shopping. On GameStop and a number of other online retailers that have brick-and-mortar stores near me, I like to place an order online through the miles shopping portal, then choose in-store pickup to get the goods. I do this when I don’t want to wait for or pay for shipping.
For example, there is a GameStop a few miles from my house. On the Southwe...