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FutureLearn has hundreds of online courses from top universities like Johns Hopkins, and most of them are free

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  Summary List Placement Like edX and Coursera, FutureLearn offers a wide range of online courses and programs from top universities and organizations. Many short courses are completely free to audit, while longer programs can cost anywhere from $39 a month to about $1,000 for a certificate. FutureLearn also offers a number of online degrees. […]

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Trump left Biden $1 billion to spend on healthcare enrollment efforts, new report finds

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Summary List Placement Former President Donald Trump significantly reduced spending on enrollment efforts in the Affordable Care Act, leaving President Joe Biden with around $1 billion in unused funds to spend on healthcare, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. In a new report released on Monday, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that over fiscal years […]

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Upcoming IPO could value loanDepot at $6.5B

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LoanDepot, one of America’s largest mortgage lenders, released pricing of its hotly anticipated independent public offering (IPO) on Wednesday. The multichannel lender said it would be selling 9.41 million shares of common stock; funds held by its private equity backer Parthenon Capital Partners would sell 5.59 million shares in the upcoming IPO. The offering price […]

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Biden’s upcoming executive action will focus on job creation through climate action, and the order has big support from CEOs and climate groups

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Summary List Placement President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday that addresses the climate crisis, and both climate groups and corporate America have expressed support for big action on the climate and the job creation that would come with it. Climate change is one of the four crises the president said is […]

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AIME promotes Katie Sweeney to CEO

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Influential mortgage broker advocacy group Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) has promoted Katie Sweeney to CEO. Sweeney was previously AIME’s executive vice president of strategy, and her duties included creating partnerships with top wholesale mortgage lenders and industry vendors. “I’m excited to rally for the independent originator by leading AIME’s support of brokers to […]

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Biden’s plan for a $15 minimum wage could mean 1 in 5 Americans earn more. Nearly a third of Black workers would get a raise, research suggests.

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Summary List Placement Nearly 32 million Americans would earn more under President Joe Biden’s proposals to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, according to calculations by thinktank Economic Policy Institute (EPI). This is around 21% of the US’s total workforce. Women, minorities, and frontline workers would benefit the most, it […]

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Only 1 in 10 companies expect all their staff to return to the office when the pandemic dies down, a new report suggests

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Summary List Placement Only about one in 10 companies expect all their employees to go back to the office once the pandemic has subsided, according to a new report by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). NABE’s January 2021 Business Conditions Survey report revealed that 11% of 97 NABE panelists expect all of their […]

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Rising mortgage rates push applications lower

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For the second week in a row, mortgage applications decreased – this time, down 4.1% for the week ending Jan. 22, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The 30-year-fixed rate rose to 2.95%, its highest level since November 2020, according to Joel Kan, MBA associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. All […]

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With Biden at Helm, Pets Return to White House

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With Joe Biden as president, pets are back in the White House after a break in the longtime tradition during his predecessor’s time in office. Elena Wolf has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. Camera: Natalia Latukhina, Dmitrii Vershinin Masha Morton contributed. details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received this content from this noted web source: VOANews.Com

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Presidential Pet Tradition Returns to White House

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With Joe Biden as president, pets are back in the White House after a break in the longtime tradition during his predecessor’s time in office. Elena Wolf has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. Camera: Natalia Latukhina, Dmitrii Vershinin Masha Morton contributed. details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received this content from this noted web source: VOANews.Com

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Industry mourns death of PennyMac’s Stanford Kurland

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PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust announced that company founder and Non-Executive Chairman Stanford Kurland died at age 68 due to complications from COVID-19. Kurland had also been battling brain cancer. The company and industry leaders alike mourned his passing, calling him an “esteemed industry leader, visionary and friend.” “I am deeply saddened to share the news […]

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Here’s how long mortgage rates might stay under 3%

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Summary List Placement Low mortgage rates have contributed to an active housing market over the last several months, with markets across the country recording skyrocketing home prices. Freddie Mac, the popular loan company that surveys weekly mortgage data, has reported low 30-year fixed rates since the onset of the pandemic.  In July, for the first […]

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9 MBA consultants, coaches, and admissions experts to know if you want to get into a top business school

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Summary List Placement Stanford Graduate School of Business, the best business school in the world, according to global higher education analyst QS Quacquarelli Symonds, accepts just over 6% of applicants. Even if you don’t want to compete with the best of the best, top programs such as the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, […]

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Raising the federal minimum wage through budget reconciliation would be ‘a stretch,’ House Budget Chairman says

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Summary List Placement House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth said on Monday that raising the federal minimum wage within President Joe Biden’s stimulus proposal by using budget reconciliation is unlikely to pass through the Senate. Biden’s $2 trillion relief package is currently under negotiation in Congress. Given its partisan nature, Democrats have started to eye reconciliation […]

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Billionaires made $3.9 trillion during the pandemic — enough to pay for everyone’s vaccine

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Summary List Placement A new report from Oxfam found that the world’s billionaires didn’t just recoup losses from the coronavirus: Their collective wealth increase could pay for the entire world’s vaccinations and prevent anyone from falling into poverty. “The increase in the wealth of the 10 richest billionaires since the crisis began is more than […]

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UK unemployment hits highest level in 5 years, but government support limits pain during new COVID lockdowns

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Summary List Placement The UK unemployment rate hit its highest level in 5 years in the three months to November, official figures showed on Tuesday, although the government’s wage-subsidy scheme kept joblessness lower than in other countries. Unemployment rose to 5% over the period, the Office for National Statistics said, up from 3.8% a year […]

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SitusAMC acquires Assimilate Solutions

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Real estate services and technology firm SitusAMC on Monday announced its acquisition of mortgage and title outsourcer Assimilate Solutions – the second acquisition by the New York-based firm in January, and its fourth overall in less than a year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a statement, SitusAMC said its latest acquisition will help to […]

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Udemy’s online courses range from coding bootcamps to drawing lessons — here are 25 of the bestselling ones

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  Summary List Placement Udemy has about 130,000 online courses, covering a range of diverse topics. Each course typically offers hours of video, articles, downloadable resources, a certificate of completion, and lifetime access.  Below, you’ll find a ranking of its most popular classes — from an to .  Right now, the site is discounting courses for […]

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Forbearances hold steady as exits slow

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The U.S. forbearance rate held relatively steady last week, rising one basis point to 5.38% of servicers’ portfolio volume, according to a survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association released on Monday. The virtually unchanged rate of forbearance volume can be attributed to a stalemate between steady declines in almost every investor class and a whopping 26 basis point jump in […]

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Trump’s impeachment trial threatens to derail speedy passage of Biden’s stimulus package and set up another unemployment cliff

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Summary List Placement A second impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump is looming — and it jeopardizes much of President Biden’s early legislative agenda, which includes the quick passage of a multi-trillion-dollar rescue package. The House is expected to transmit the article of impeachment to the Senate on Monday evening, a step that triggers […]

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8 million Americans have fallen into poverty in recent months as government benefits lapse, a new study finds

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Summary List Placement With government benefits from the first stimulus package expiring, 8.1 million Americans entered poverty in recent months, according to a study put out by University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame economists.  Early in the pandemic, the federal government put together a stimulus package that included one-time direct payments to American […]

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Zillow: Expect another record year for home sales

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Zillow’s 2021 housing forecast echoes the projections of other industry experts of a rapid acceleration of home value appreciation, with numbers anticipated to be even higher than in 2020. According to Zillow’s Home Value Index, the company expects seasonally adjusted home values to increase by 3.7% from December 2020 to March 2021, and by 10.5% […]

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Bernie Sanders says Democrats will use reconciliation to pass Biden’s $2 trillion stimulus package. Here is how that would work.

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Summary List Placement Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said on Sunday that Democrats will use budget reconciliation to pass President Joe Biden’s stimulus package with a simple majority in Congress.  In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Sanders said that Democrats will use reconciliation to pass Biden’s $2 trillion stimulus package to quickly provide aid […]

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Workers lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the pandemic. Women and Gen Z saw the biggest losses.

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Summary List Placement Workers around the world cumulatively lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the coronavirus pandemic — an 8.3% decline — according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO). American workers saw the largest losses in earnings, a 10.3% decline.  Globally, 8.8% of working hours were lost, and 114 million people […]

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Biden to sign off on $400 billion campaign pledge for federal agencies to buy American-made goods

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Summary List Placement President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Monday that will reform the Buy American rule by strengthening the federal government’s procurement of American-manufactured goods. During his campaign, Biden pledged to invest $400 billion in new spending over the course of his presidency, which would be geared toward buying American-made goods […]

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The world’s 1,000 richest people have already bounced back from COVID-19 wealth losses, but it could take more than a decade for the poorest to recover, Oxfam warns

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Summary List Placement It took nine months for the top 1,000 billionaires in the world to bounce back from financial losses triggered by the pandemic — but billions of people will remain in poverty for more than a decade, according to a new Oxfam survey released on Monday. The study, called “The Inequality Virus,” said […]

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Buccaneers, Chiefs to Face Off in Super Bowl

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs have advanced to face off in the National Football League’s Super Bowl.  The game, which is one of the most-watched television programs in the United States each year, will take place February 7 in front of a restricted crowd of about 22,000 people due to the coronavirus […]

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South African Jazz ‘Giant’ Jonas Gwangwa Dies Aged 83

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South Africa jazz trombonist and composer Jonas Gwangwa, whose music powered the anti-apartheid struggle, died Saturday aged 83, the presidency said. President Cyril Ramaphosa led the tributes to the legendary musician who was nominated for an Oscar for the theme song of the 1987 film “Cry Freedom.”   “A giant of our revolutionary cultural movement […]

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US Television Host Larry King Dies Aged 87: CNN

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Larry King, who quizzed thousands of world leaders, politicians and entertainers for CNN and other news outlets in a career spanning more than six decades, has died at age 87, CNN reported Saturday, citing a<span class="TextRun SCXW254283150 BCX9" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" details ⇒ BusinessMediaguide.Com portal received this content from this noted web source: VOANews.Com

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Parents should always write a thank you note after a preschool interview or tour. An expert shares what it should include, and 3 example letters that hit the mark.

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Summary List Placement Wendy Levey knows a thing or two about how to get kids into top-ranked preschools.  Levey, who founded a premiere preschool on the Upper East Side in New York that she directed for 45 years and now consults parents on how to get their kids into top programs, told Insider that one […]

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The Dept. of Transportation will prioritize climate change in support of Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, Buttigieg tells Congress

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Summary List Placement Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg told lawmakers during his confirmation hearing on Thursday that he will prioritize climate change as part of the Department of Transportation’s support for President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plans. Biden has proposed a $2 trillion investment in infrastructure, according to his website, with the intent to create “the […]

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CoStar and private equity group battle for CoreLogic

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Nearly three months after CoreLogic confirmed it was exploring multiple acquisition offers following the rejection of a hostile takeover bid, the data giant is now evaluating the final two bidders. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported that CoStar Group and a private equity group led by Warburg Pincus are currently competing for the data provider, though […]

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As he takes office, President Biden faces a unique economic crisis — and the chance to redefine economics forever

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Summary List Placement Millions of us who remember President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January of 2009 can recall the deep feeling of anxiety that hummed in the background of the event. Our nation was facing an unprecedented economic collapse, and there was a genuine sense that the global economy could be completely wiped out.  I […]