A new report reveals that as a record number of people in the United States lost their jobs and struggled to put food on the table during the past year of the pandemic, the combined wealth of the 657 billionaires in the country grew more than $1.3 trillion, nearly 45%, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who saw his personal wealth increase by $65 billion — more than $7 million every hour.
How do I determine if my child is ready for school?
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
“First class” is about to become a misnomer.
Few problems are simultaneously so distressing and so addressable.
It’s trying to offer something Amazon and Spotify can’t.
As the president once put it: Come on!
“I have not eaten since. I’m going to do a juice cleanse today.
Disease reshapes our lives in surprising ways.
The Atlanta shooting suspect’s claim of “sex addiction” is the product of a huge evangelical industry.
Structural inequities in the U.S. labor market that have affected Black and Hispanic workers’ ability to advance out of low-paying jobs, as well as discrimination in hiring practices, are also likely having an effect.
Central bank officials now expect the unemployment rate to drop to 4.5 percent by the end of 2021.
Janet Yellen said the greater risk was not strengthening the economy as it recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents.
Another massive injection of federal cash could ignite the economy like never before. It also could drive up inflation and burst market bubbles, creating new headaches in an otherwise positive outlook.
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are in the final days of voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States. Ballots have been sent to nearly 6,000 workers, most of whom are Black, in one of the most closely watched union elections in decades.
In today’s news: Georgia Republicans are making yet another attempt to legalize the partisan election stealing that Donald Trump demanded after his loss. It’s Equal Pay Day, the day American women working full-time catch up, on average, to what American men made in pay during 2020. (That’s right: nearly three extra months of work.) And Democrats are pushing forward with a new American infrastructure plan after four years of Republican efforts falling flat.
At some point we should probably acknowledge the fact that the majority of those who supported Donald Trump are just bad people. After all, it seems clear that they intend to go out of their way to prove the point, one by one, time and time again.
As reported by the New York Daily News, a woman, identified as Stephanie Denaro of Queens and accompanied by at least three children, got in line at the Davidovich Bakery on New York City’s Lower East Side.
The company came under fire this week after U.S. government scientists accused it of releasing misleading data.
Laura Ingraham—the Fox News host who seems to spend all of her time thinking up new ways that Democratic efforts are a plot against America—had Kris Kobach, the disgraced Kansas secretary of state, on her program. Kris Kobach, for those that don’t remember, promised to prove vast voter fraud using taxpayer dollars, but only ended up spending millions of dollars and proving … well, nothing, while leaving states in debt for his actions.
Amid the never-ending sad news that has taken over the news cycle comes an uplifting story. The San Francisco grandma who went viral for beating her attacker vowed to donate more than $900,000 toward combatting anti-Asian hate. Following her attack on March 17, Xio Zhen Xie’s family started a GoFundMe campaign in order to help her pay for her medical bills. While the goal was to raise $50,000, by Tuesday the campaign raised more than $919,000.
On Tuesday, Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth backed down from a threat to delay approving Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees because of a lack of high-level Asian American representation among the president’s brain trust. She made the announcement after receiving assurances from the Biden administration that it would strive for greater AAPI representation in government.
The administration wants to shift focus from diagnosing people who suspect they’re infected to regularly screening millions of Americans at school or work.
Another day, another chance for the Texas senator to shrug off the idea of showing respect for other people.
The IRS hasn’t received the payment information it requested to send checks to Social Security recipients.
The decision comes as the company struggles to meet its delivery targets.
I’m ready to bone. Respectfully.
