💬 Quoted… “I told him maybe we should start using it as a recruitment tool.”

• Looking for love? Forget trying to appear on The Bachelorette or Love is Blind – and go work for Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) instead. Twenty couples (so far) have met while working for the 90-year-old longtime senator and eventually got married, the latest being Jennifer Heins Davis, Grassley’s chief of staff, and Nick Davis, a former Grassley legislative aide who now works for Iowa’s attorney general.

📈 Stat of the Day: 58% = the percentage of US households who owned stocks in 2022, a figure that’s ~5% higher than any other year in history, per the Fed's newly-published Survey of Consumer Finances. It appears the mysterious shareholders that push corporate America forward may actually be the family next door.

🤔 Did You Know?... If you think 5% unemployment is high, try turning into an ant. An estimated 40% of worker ants are “unemployed” and specialize in being inactive, per a peer-reviewed study published in 2017. They do appear to have their reasons, however – when scientists studying this phenomenon took away the portion of worker ants who were most active, the “unemployed” ants took up the mantle and effectively performed the colony’s open jobs.

📰 Worth a Read: Shein, the fast fashion darling mulling a US IPO, opens up about forced labor, data privacy → (CNBC)