Fancy/Veer/Corbis | Getty Images Bianca Thomas was always working. Except on Sunday — that was church day. But in March, everything changed. Thomas lost her job as a prep cook in an eatery catering to Boston Bruins and Celtics season ticket holders. Singing in the church choir, a joy of hers for 13 years, wasn’t possible
Month: August 2020
Agatha Kulaga, co-founder and CEO of Ovenly Source: Agatha Kulaga The past few months certainly haven’t been easy for small businesses. Many had to shut their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. While some may never reopen, others are ramping up their business — and hoping they don’t have to shut down again. Retail and
Participants in a demonstration against racism hold a sign with a clenched fist, the so-called “Black Power” symbol, at Neumarkt. The rally of the “Black Lives Matter Dresden” group wants to draw attention to structural racism after the violent death of George Floyd. Sebastian Kahnert | picture alliance via Getty Images It is intolerable, and
Thirty showings in 3 days on this Sherman Oaks, California property, The Agency Multiple offers and bidding wars return to California’s luxury market. Despite a severe economic downturn in many sectors, California’s luxury real estate market is on a high. Listen to Valery Neuman, founding partner of Compass Greater Palm Springs. “In 29 years selling full-time
Delta Air Lines passenger planes are seen parked due to flight reductions made to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham, Alabama, March 25, 2020. Elijah Nouvelage | Reuters Delta Air Lines will have more flight attendants than needed into next summer and have asked cabin crews to take as
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Booking Holdings (BKNG) – Booking Holdings lost $10.81 per share for its latest quarter, smaller than the loss of $11.50 predicted by Wall Street analysts. The parent of Priceline, Booking.com, Kayak and other travel services also saw revenue beat estimates, even as the
By Liz Seegert, Next Avenue Contributor getty Researchers have launched a global effort to examine the long-term effects of Covid-19 on the brain. Scientific leaders from more than 25 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin and North America, with guidance from the World Health Organization, are looking into neurological complications stemming from the coronavirus. Many
Computer keyboard enter key with a magic quick fix button concept for it support, technical … [+] assistance and customer service getty Did you get the wrong amount in your stimulus check? Help may be available sooner than you think. Initially, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) advised that individuals who received the wrong payment amount
Alistair Berg | Getty Images College students can now receive unemployment benefits, provided they can prove they had paid work last year. The reason is the CARES Act, which became law in March and made assistance for unemployment more widely available through Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. This is a separate program from a state’s traditional unemployment
Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaking at the fifth annual “Beating the Odds” Summit on July 23, 2019, at Howard University. Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post | Getty Images Former first lady Michelle Obama said she has been “dealing with some form of low-grade depression” amid the coronavirus pandemic, but that trying to maintain a
Eric Eremita is bringing his New York attitude home. Eric Eremita Eric Eremtia is best known from several HGTV shows including Love It Or List It and Brother Vs Brother, as the stereotypical New York contractor you wouldn’t want to fight with, especially when he has power tools in his hands. But, Eremita recently made headlines for being
A pedestrian wearing a protective mask passes in front of a vacant storefront displaying graffiti that reads “Unmask Maui” in Paia, Maui County, Hawaii, U.S., on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. Mia Shimabuku | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hawaii Gov. David Ige will reinstate restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus as cases in the
A Jos. A. Bank store location in San Francisco announces its permanent closure on Aug. 6. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images The unemployment rate fell for the third straight month, to 10.2% in July. That exceeded expectations, as employers added about 1.8 million jobs to their payrolls. That adds up to good news for
getty A Health Savings Account (HSA) is a savings vehicle for people who are enrolled in high deductible health plans to save for future medical bills. The features of HSA accounts also make it a very good retirement savings vehicle, and in some ways, are better than a 401(k). HSA contributions are pre-tax, if made
Taxes and staking are two topics that have a murky history together due to lack of staking specific guidance issued by the IRS. How staking should be taxed is already a controversial issue (How Staking Tezos May Generate ‘Rental’ Income). When staking income should be taxed is an even more pressing issue because it affects
“I’m on Indeed every single day, looking for jobs,” Lafauci, 36, said. “There’s nothing.” Source: Sarah Lafauci It’s now been over a week since tens of millions of Americans have stopped receiving the $600 federal unemployment boost. Negotiations between Republicans and Democrats over what to replace those payments with have turned into an increasingly protracted and bitter
Spencer Platt | Getty Images Desy’s is one of the last bars left standing in Morrisville, North Carolina. Owner Desislava Nikolova made her American dream come true by opening Desy’s and another bar in nearby Cary after immigrating to America from Bulgaria 11 years ago. While the coronavirus pandemic forced the majority of her counterparts in the local
When Amber Lynn Gilles was refused service by a San Diego Starbucks barista in June, she took her frustrations to Facebook: “Meet lenen from Starbucks who refused to serve me cause I’m not wearing a mask. Next time I will wait for cops and bring a medical exemption.” After a GoFundMe drive raised over $100,000
Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC Investors are preparing for a variety of news in Berkshire Hathaway’s second-quarter earnings report this weekend, ranging from the possibility of record overall net income to weaker operating results from the conglomerate’s industrials companies. Wall Street also hopes that Berkshire, which is expected to report per-share earnings of $2.12
The federal government’s stopgap measures in the CARES Act helped buoy the economy. But with key … [+] policies now expired, the housing market is to see a turn for the worse, says EasyKnock founder Jarred Kessler. getty Despite early predictions of an impending doom, the housing market has so far eschewed the dampener that
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- …
- 35
- Next Page »