Economy - Part 5
In the last week and a half, Texas Republicans moved to block $8 billion worth of pandemic unemployment benefits for 1.3 million people — just days after voting to extend a corporate subsidy program that is enriching fossil fuel companies and has ...[Read more]
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We’re in an era of the cult of the entrepreneur. We analyze the Tory Burches and Evan Spiegels of the world looking for a magic formula or set of personality traits that lead to success. Entrepreneurship is on the rise, and more students coming out of b ...[Read more]
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Friedrich, who issued a 20-page ruling on May 5 claiming the federal agency had overstepped its authority, wrote in an accompanying opinion that the eviction ban “is the role of the political branches, and not the courts.” Friedrich added that the “ ...[Read more]
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The election of Joe Biden has not demolished the Republican Party, or that party’s ongoing attempts to block policies that might give humanity a chance at survival. Moreover, the advent of the Biden administration has not negated some of the most persis ...[Read more]
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Dozens of the largest low-wage employers in the United States manipulated their own rules during the coronavirus pandemic to hand wealthy CEOs substantial raises while their vulnerable frontline workers struggled to get by with inadequate paychecks, meage ...[Read more]
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Money laundering has long been a major issue in the United States but over the last several years, the evolution of technology has made the laundering threat far worse.
Last fall, BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ...[Read more]
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The head of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has said the bloc is “ready to discuss” a US-backed proposal for a waiver on the patents for Covid-19 vaccines and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he was “absolutely in favour” ...[Read more]
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Amazon is dictating the hygiene and monitoring the social media posts of drivers that it’s contracting from other small companies, new documents show. The policies are part of a litany of strict guidelines that recent reporting has found Amazon workers ...[Read more]
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A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows annual premiums for a family now top $21,000, and deductibles have more than doubled since 2010. ...[Read more]
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President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday that he is raising the minimum wage for employees contracted to work for the federal government to $15 per hour starting next spring.
The increase will represent a 37 percent increase in pay overall from th ...[Read more]
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If you were reading the news back in 2008, then you probably remember how residential mortgage backed securities fueled by subprime mortgages tanked the global economy. Now John Flynn, a veteran of the mortgage securities market, says it’s happening all ...[Read more]
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