Summary List Placement The number of Americans filing for unemployment insurance sank to another pandemic-era low last week as the labor market’s recovery charged forward. Jobless claims totaled an unadjusted 385,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. The median estimate from economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for 387,000 initial claims. The count marks a […]
Summary List Placement States choosing to end the supplemental $300-a-week unemployment benefit early could cost local economies more than $12 billion, according to a report by the bipartisan Joint Economic Committee published on Wednesday. Cutting the benefit early could ultimately hamper economic recovery from the coronavirus because people would have less money to spend, the […]
Summary List Placement Apple expects to see its employees in the office for three days a week from September. CEO Tim Cook announced the change in an email sent to staff on Wednesday, seen by The Verge. Most employees would be expected to come in on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, and it would be up […]
Decades before YouTube, there was Nam June Paik, a Korean American artist who believed all people should have their own TV channel. Matt Dibble explores a retrospective of this visionary video artist. Producer: Matt Dibble details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received this content from this noted web source: VOANews.Com
Summary List Placement Hello Modes readers! Here is my full conversation with Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal. You probably know him as @TheStalwart on Twitter or as the co-host of Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast. I was excited when Joe accepted my offer to get on the phone and talk about trucking and non-trucking topics. Here’s our conversation. Beer is bad Rachel: […]
Summary List Placement The Education Department on Wednesday cancelled its recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools (ACICS) for approving a school that reportedly has no faculty or students, but received federal funds anyway. USA Today conducted an investigation last year that found that although approved by ACICS, Reagan National University in South […]
Summary List Placement New analysis suggests that relief payments included in Congress’s sweeping stimulus were highly effective at supporting Americans and easing various stresses through the pandemic. The pandemic-era stimulus checks weren’t the first instance of the government issuing relief payments, but the amount of cash sent directly to Americans over the past year is […]
Home sales on properties labeled as “expensive” or “high-end” have skyrocketed in California’s Bay Area, Miami and Las Vegas in 2021, and overall purchases of high-end homes in the country jumped 26% year over year during the three months ending April 30, according to a recent study from Redfin. “Affordable” and “mid-priced” home purchases rose […]
Summary List Placement A new ruling from the Senate parliamentarian could pose a roadblock for President Joe Biden’s $4 trillion economic agenda and Democrats attempting to evade a Republican filibuster as they push ahead with major spending plans on health, education, and childcare. A ruling issued last Friday from Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough said there […]
A massive and long-awaited new translation of Mein Kampf — peppered with scholarly commentary to explain Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s disjointed, hate-filled manifesto — has been released in France. The project has been controversial, but supporters say it could serve as a warning against rising acts of hate and antisemitism today. The book is a […]
Summary List Placement On the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, President Joe Biden unveiled plans to address the racial wealth gap in the country. But those plans did not include student debt cancellation, which the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called a missed opportunity. “While many […]
Summary List Placement Leaders at Sunnyside Community Services, a non-profit center that serves neighborhoods in Queens, New York City, are well aware of the devastating toll COVID-19 has had on their community. The coronavirus disease had killed more Queens residents than any other borough as of March 2020, when New York City became an epicenter […]
Mortgage applications dropped for the second straight week, this time down 4% for the week ending May 28, 2021, according the Mortgage Bankers Association‘s weekly mortgage applications survey. This week’s data was compared to mortgage applications from the week of Memorial Day in 2020. The overall housing index hit its lowest point since February, said Joel Kan, […]
Summary List Placement The current US labor shortage, which is hitting industries from education and healthcare to hospitality and ride-hailing apps, is holding back the nation’s economic recovery from the pandemic, the US Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday. In some states and some industries, there are fewer available workers than there are vacancies, according to […]
Summary List Placement An unusual imbalance between supply and demand in the labor market is holding back the hiring rebound, but the trend shouldn’t last long, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said Tuesday. On one hand, job openings soared to record highs in March as the country reopened and businesses looked to rehire. Yet a […]
Servicers’ forbearance portfolio volumes managed to drop one basis point last week to 4.18%, the 13th consecutive week of declines. However, some unfortunate trends are beginning to crystalize. Despite declines for nearly every investor type, last week’s positive numbers were offset by an 11 basis point jump in forbearance share for portfolio loans and private […]
Summary List Placement Millennial homeowners are having buyer’s remorse. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of millennials regret buying their home, a new Bankrate survey that polled 1,400-plus homeowners found. Just over 20% cited expensive maintenance costs as the reason why, while 13% said it’s because they overpaid. Those reasons come as no surprise in today’s cutthroat housing […]
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Summary List Placement Feminism is a powerful social and political movement that calls for economic, cultural, social, and political equality for women. As such, the movement makes its greatest strides when it’s intersectional — which is why books that explore feminism across class, race, gender identity, ability, and sexuality help foster greater inclusion and […]
Summary List Placement President Joe Biden’s infrastructure- and family-focused spending plans will become law, just not in their current form, Goldman Sachs economists said Friday. With stimulus in the rear-view mirror and the country on the mend, the White House has shifted its focus to long-term investments in the economy. Democrats and Republicans continue to […]
Summary List Placement Richard Cordray, the head the Education Department’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), is remaining committed to helping student loan borrowers through new issued guidance that would enhance oversight of student loan servicers. On Friday, Cordray — former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and an ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren […]
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday his government is on board with hosting the Copa America soccer tournament later this month, in a last-minute switch after planned host Argentina pulled out due to the coronavirus. Speaking to supporters in Brasilia, Bolsonaro said he consulted with Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga and they had agreed the […]
Summary List Placement Finance ministers for the Group of 7 are set to back a new global minimum tax, according to a Reuters report. The move would potentially be a major step forward for both the Biden administration and international taxation. According to a draft obtained by Reuters, the group supports the push for a tax […]
Summary List Placement In 2015, Toronto-based Eropa Stein was finishing up her three-year master’s program in forensic psychology on her way to a PhD, an endeavor she’d planned out for 10 years and sunk approximately $30,000 into. But instead of staying in academia after getting her degree, the newly minted grad founded Hyre Staff, a […]
Summary List Placement Economic recoveries are improving around the world, but the global rebound remains massively uneven, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a new report. The OECD revised its estimate for global gross domestic product higher on Monday, citing unprecedented policy support and the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. Output is now […]
Summary List Placement President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday announced new measures designed to narrow the racial wealth gap and build wealth in Black communities. The plan would help combat discrimination in the housing market, and grow the number of federal contracts given to small, disadvantaged businesses by 50% over the next five years — […]
Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open on Monday and wrote on Twitter that she would be taking a break from competition, a dramatic turn of events for a four-time Grand Slam champion who said she experiences “huge waves of anxiety” before speaking to the media and revealed she has “suffered long bouts of depression.” […]
Summary List Placement Billionaire investor Bill Gross wrote in a Financial Times op-ed on Tuesday that the Federal Reserve could risk sinking the dollar if it continues to support accommodative monetary policies for too long. “I suspect that $5 trillion spending programmes and the Fed’s current package of near zero per cent short-term rates and […]
Summary List Placement Small restaurant owners have hiked the prices of some menu items due, in part, to a severe shortage of workers, Fox Business reports. Restaurants have struggled to attract workers since they reopened, with many people demanding higher wages. Some owners have passed the cost of these wages onto customers, Fox reported. […]
Summary List Placement Parents in China are rushing to buy a $120 smart lamp that’s equipped with surveillance cameras to help them keep a watchful eye on their kids while they’re doing homework, Liza Lin reported for The Wall Street Journal. Made by TikTok owner ByteDance, the Dali Smart Lamp comes with two cameras: one […]
Brena NathHW+ Managing Editor This issue marks my first issue overseeing the magazine with a cover photoshoot, and wow, Matt Jones, who is portrayed on the cover, really set the bar high when it comes to what it means to be a Rising Star. He formerly served as senior counsel for the Senate Committee on […]
Thailand held a welcoming ceremony Monday to mark the return of two ancient handcarved artifacts that were stolen decades ago and smuggled out of the country to the United States. The two 680-kilogram Khmer-style stone carvings had been on display at the Asian Arts Museum in San Francisco, which was required to forfeit them when […]
Next month’s Copa America soccer tournament will take place in Brazil, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said on Monday, as it thanked President Jair Bolsonaro for stepping in after original host Argentina pulled out after a surge of COVID-19 cases. The surprise decision, which relocates the competition from one South American coronavirus hot […]
Summary List Placement Walter Hussman, the newspaper publisher whose name adorns the University of North Carolina’s journalism school, warned the university against hiring New York Times magazine journalist and 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, according to emails obtained by the digital magazine The Assembly. Hussman, an alumnus whose $25 million donation to the school in […]
Moviegoing increasingly looks like it didn’t die during the pandemic. It just went into hibernation. John Krasinski’s thriller sequel “A Quiet Place Part II” opened over the Memorial Day weekend to a pandemic-best $48.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Including the Monday holiday, the studio forecasts the film will gross $58.5 million in […]
Summary List Placement The US economy is set to grow at the fastest rate since 1984 this year thanks to government stimulus and the speedy rollout of coronavirus vaccines, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said. In its latest economic outlook, the OECD group of rich countries said US gross domestic product […]
All seven passengers aboard a plane, including “Tarzan” actor Joe Lara and his diet guru wife, are presumed dead after it crashed in a lake near the U.S. city of Nashville, authorities said. The small business jet crashed at around 11:00 am local time Saturday, shortly after taking off from the Smyrna, Tennessee airport […]
The organizers of the Tokyo Olympics have secured about 80% of the medical staff needed to stage the Games, a top Olympic official told Reuters on Monday, amid worries over infections and the slow rollout of vaccinations in the Japanese capital. Toshiaki Endo, vice president of the Games organizing committee, said some domestic spectators could […]
Helio Castroneves won the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday for a record-equaling fourth time, in front of the largest crowd to attend a sporting event in the United States since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 46-year-old Brazilian surged to the front with two laps to go and held off a challenge from hard-charging Spanish […]
Summary List Placement Gas prices reached a seven-year high, at an average of $3.04 per gallon on Sunday, up $1.14 per gallon from the same time last year, according to AAA. The spike in price comes as more than 37 million Americans are expected to travel this weekend, with 9 out of 10 driving, according […]
Summary List Placement I knew New York City was back when I found myself dancing on top of a booth in an East Village bar last weekend. The night began with dinner out and ended with another bargoer’s drink on my shoe, eating pizza on the street, and an invitation from a six-pack-wielding stranger for […]
Workers dig and ferry wheelbarrows laden with sand to open a new shaft at a bustling archaeological site outside of Cairo, while a handful of Egyptian archaeologists supervise from garden chairs. The dig is at the foot of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, arguably the world’s oldest pyramid, and is one of many recent excavations […]
Summary List Placement The same day that cybersecurity startup Arctic Wolf announced that it had been valued at $1.3 billion, it also said that it was moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Minnesota. When it made the announcement in October 2020, it joined dozens of other companies that have moved out of California over […]
Gavin MacLeod, the veteran supporting actor who achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” before going on to even bigger fame as the cheerful Captain Stubing on “The Love Boat,” has died. He was 90. MacLeod died early Saturday, his nephew, Mark See, told Variety. MacLeod’s health […]
Summary List Placement According to Google Trends, searches including the words “labor shortage” have skyrocketed in the United States over the past month. The term first began to spread on social media in April, when people shared photos of handmade signs at fast food restaurants apologizing for slow service and complaining that “no one wants […]