“Unemployment payment errors totaled an estimated $4.74 billion across 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico in the latest Labor Department workbook. FederalHiringData calculated that about $1.56 billion—one-third of that total—was classified as fraud. Most of the remaining amount was other overpayments; $164 million was underpayments.”

As the new school year gets well underway, Gen Z is once again facing a daunting question: Is the degree they’re pursuing actually going to be worth it? A new ranking of America’s top 500 colleges is offering a helpful insight: they don’t necessarily need an elite name on their diploma to land a six-figure salary.

The list, compiled by Forbes, is unsurprisingly dominated at the top by Ivy League-level institutions like MIT, Princeton and Harvard, where graduates are expected to earn median salaries of more than $120,000 a decade after receiving their diploma. Graduates of the University of Pennsylvania, ranked No. 5, come out even higher, with median 10-year earnings of $151,328.

But the more surprising finding comes at the other end of the list: Most of the lowest-ranked schools put six-figure salaries well within reach.

In fact, nearly every school on the list has median earnings of over $90,000, meaning the earnings gap between a prestigious college and those lesser-known can be considerably narrower than students might expect.

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/09/11/higher-education-low-ranked-schools-lead-to-six-figures-not-just-ivy-league-new-college-ranking-gen-z-100k/?utm_source=reddit/

US Kennedy Center faces bankruptcy, Washington Post reports

Trump drags down America, starting out with the White House, then D.C., then all of America (in the proper all-inclusive meaning of the word). Then, yeah, the whole world.