Young people who skip university for vocational courses could find themselves better off with higher wages and no HECS debt, according to a new report. 

Research taken out by the Grattan Institute, in Victoria, found that students are being told inaccurate information about employment. 

Read more at Daily Mail.

Launching a new business can be one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of your life. You get to be your own boss, fulfill your own dreams and watch the seeds you plant blossom right before your eyes.

But entrepreneurs all-too-often get caught up in what I call playing business. They’re so excited about building a cool website, finding a unique office space or even designing their first business cards, that they rush through or skip some of the critical steps to laying the groundwork for success in business.

Read more at Forbes.

After a turbulent week for stocks, the markets are facing another potentially volatile week as the trade war and key economic data take centerstage.

Investors will be monitoring any additional escalations or developments regarding the U.S.-China trade war and currency war. Until last week, many economists were optimistic about the overall health of the U.S. economy. However, President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would be slapping 10% tariffs on the remaining $300 billion worth of Chinese goods has started to change some economists’ positions.

Read more at Yahoo Finance.

When it comes to retirement savings, theory often differs from reality.

On average, Americans believe they need $1.7 million to retire, according to a recent survey from Charles Schwab, which looked at 1,000 participants in 401(k) plans nationwide.

Read more at CNBC.

With more than 800,000 migrants currently applying for asylum in the U.S., a growing number of immigrants rights groups are calling attention to the plight of LGBTQ people, many of whom are seeking asylum because of persecution back home due to their gender identity and sexuality.

Some also say they are facing similar abuse in U.S. immigration detention facilities. Ivette Feliciano reports.

Read more at PBS News.

California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, including a ban on the type of high-capacity ammunition magazines used in some of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings.

How long those types of laws will stand is a growing concern among gun control advocates in California and elsewhere.

Read more at PBS News.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she sees comprehensive immigration reform not only as Congress’ official work but also as its moral responsibility as she finishes up a tour of Central America.

Pelosi traveled with a congressional delegation to explore the causes of immigration and possible solutions. The group visited Guatemala and El Salvador, along with migrant detention facilities in McAllen, Texas.

Read more at PBS News.

Guards on Jeffrey Epstein’s unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail’s operations told The Associated Press.

The person said that the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s Special Housing Unit was staffed with one guard working a fifth straight day of overtime and another who was working mandatory overtime. The person wasn’t authorized to discuss jail operations publicly and spoke Sunday on the condition of anonymity.

Read more at Associated Press News.

As America’s opioid crisis spiraled into a fentanyl epidemic, prosecutors say one young Utah man made himself a drug kingpin by creating counterfeit prescription painkillers laced with the deadly drug and mailing them to homes across the United States.

Former Eagle Scout Aaron Shamo, 29, will stand trial beginning Monday on allegations that he and a small group of fellow millennials ran a multimillion-dollar empire from the basement of his suburban Salt Lake City home by trafficking hundreds of thousands of pills containing fentanyl, the potent synthetic opioid that has exacerbated the country’s overdose epidemic in recent years.

Read more at Associated Press News.

The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi’s heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not.

“I will not sit in silence while my parents are taken away,” read a sign carried by two Hispanic boys. They were among a group of several dozen marchers who set out on foot from the church to the town square in Canton to protest the 680 migrant arrests at seven poultry plants in Mississippi last Wednesday.

Read more at Associated Press News.