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Plus Size Clothing Is Disappearing From Stores While the Market It Serves Keeps Growing
The global plus-size women's apparel market exceeded $324 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow to $445 billion by 2032. The majority of US women, 54.4%, wear size 14 or above. ...
USPS Is Running Out of Money and On-Time Delivery Has Dropped to Its Lowest Point in Years
The United States Postal Service is legally required to provide mail delivery service to every address in the country, six days a week, at a uniform price regardless of location. D...
Two Indigenous Languages Disappear Every Month and the Oral Knowledge Recorded Only in Those Languages Disappears With Them
Every two weeks, on average, a language that has existed for hundreds or thousands of years is spoken by its last fluent elder. When that person dies, the language does not simply ...
Sports Betting Has Been Legalised Everywhere and the Research Shows Every Dollar Bet Is a Dollar Not Invested
You open a sportsbook app on a Saturday morning. You have $50 to put on the afternoon's games. You make the deposit. You place the bets. The games happen. Most of your bets lose. Y...
People are being secretly recorded by strangers wearing Meta smart glasses in public and there is currently no law that gives them any recourse
A man approaches a woman on a beach, in an airport lounge, at a coffee shop. He starts a conversation, casual, almost candid-looking footage shot from his own perspective. She has ...
Elderly people lose $7.7 billion to scams every year and their families have almost no way to know it is happening until the money is gone
It came in on a Tuesday afternoon. The voice sounded exactly like her grandson. He was in trouble, he said. A car accident. Someone was hurt. He needed money for a lawyer before th...
Contractors won't come out for small home repairs and the gap hits elderly homeowners hardest
The handrail on the back stairs is loose. It has been loose for four months. Every time someone uses those stairs they grip a railing that gives slightly under pressure. For a heal...
Submitting a short film to festivals costs hundreds or thousands of dollars with almost no transparency about what your money actually buys
You made a short film. It took six months and every favour you could call in. The total cash budget was $3,000, which is modest by any industry standard but significant for a perso...
Four in ten companies post job listings with no real intention of hiring anyone
You spent two hours on the application. You tailored the cover letter. You researched the company, adjusted your resume to match the job description, and submitted everything throu...
Buying concert tickets from resellers has become a genuine gamble with no reliable way to verify authenticity before the show
Understanding ticket fraud requires understanding why primary market tickets sell out in minutes for popular shows. Ticketmaster processes tens of millions of ticket purchases simu...
Renters have no reliable way to verify a landlord's reputation before signing a lease
Finding a rental apartment involves weeks of searching, dozens of applications, and significant emotional energy. The actual decision about which landlord to trust with your housin...
Facebook Marketplace has no safe way to pay, meet, or arrange delivery and fraud is the predictable result
Facebook Marketplace launched in 2016 as a simple feature within the Facebook app. It grew by leveraging the existing social graph to create a sense of familiarity and trust in wha...
Job applicants have no way to know which companies are known for ghosting after interviews
You prepared for weeks. You researched the company, practised your answers, cleared your schedule for four rounds of conversations, built what felt like a genuine connection with t...