By Arlene Weintraub, Next Avenue Only 58% of Americans age 65 or older have broadband internet access at home, which means 22 million people that age lack it, according to the nonprofit Older Adult Technology Services (OATS). This became especially problematic during the pandemic, when so many people needed to get on the internet for telehealth
Pope Francis wearing a face mask attends an inter-religious prayer service for peace along with other religious representatives in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, a church on top of Rome’s Capitoline Hill, in Rome, Italy, Oct. 20, 2020. Guglielmo Mangiapane | Reuters Pope Francis on Saturday came out in favor of a waiver
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Beyond Meat (BYND) – Beyond Meat lost 42 cents per share for the first quarter, more than double the 19 cents per share loss that analysts had expected. Revenue also missed forecasts, with the company saying the pandemic has dampened both retail and
Hiring was a huge letdown in April, but teenagers looking for summer gigs may be in luck. The Covid pandemic, of course, hit this group especially hard. Last summer, the unemployment rate for 16-to-24 year olds was 18.5%, about twice as high as the year before. (July is typically when youth employment peaks.) Now, heading into the
If you haven’t filed your 2020 tax return, are you still dealing with complexities created when RMDs (required minimum distributions) were waived for 2020? RMDs are mandated distributions (withdrawals) from tax-deferred accounts, such as IRAs. Doing your taxes for 2020 can be confusing, given that RMDs were suspended for 2020 in March by the CARES
This onetime seat of a powerful family in southwestern France took shape over six centuries. Set near the town of Périgueux, the chateau is made up of three interconnected structures built from the 12th through the 18th centuries. Ramparts forming a defensible boundary around the fortified property are still in place. Ramparts forming a defensible
Jason Wallace (C), director of the District of Columbia’s Commission on Fathers, Men, and Boys, gets a little emotional support from DC Office of Nightlife and Culture Director Shawn Townsend (L) and Deputy Mayor John Falcicchio (R) as he gets a shot of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine from DC Health Nurse Kendria Brown
Joan Slatkin/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images More than 1 in 4 unemployed Americans have been out of work for over a year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data issued Friday. Long-term joblessness has been rising steadily throughout the Covid pandemic and poses greater financial risks for affected households. Nearly 2.7 million people
Florida has recently attracted some of Wall Street and Silicon Valley’s biggest names like Keith Rabois, Elliot Management and Goldman Sachs. “For years, even though people would talk about moving, it really wasn’t cool among the wealthy to move to Florida. It was like, OK, you couldn’t hack it in New York, so you go
VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Maybe you’ve seen one too many headlines about the explosive rise in value of dogecoin, or heard one too many stories about someone making a life-changing profit off the cryptocurrency, and now you’re ready to get in. You might be thinking, so what if the coin started
In this article ETH.CM= Gary Vaynerchuk holds a “VeeFriends” token, which is part of his part of his first NFT collection. Source: VeeFriends | Gary Vaynerchuk After weeks of teasing his drawings on Twitter, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk announced Wednesday he’s launching his first NFT collection, “VeeFriends,” a series of 10,255 character tokens available for purchase
According to the National Retail Federation Mother’s Day spending is expected to total a record $28.1 billion this year, up $1.4 billion from last year. Can you imagine if instead of splurging on flowers and gifts, that much money were to pour into women’s retirement accounts this month? Of course, that’s not going to happen.
A few days ago on May 3rd workers on 7th Ave and 48th St in Manhattan unveiled Times Square’s newest billboard flanked by bright red LED Coca-Cola banners and advertisements for The Phantom Of The Opera, even though the Big Apple’s Broadway theaters have been closed for more than a year. The 10’ x 60’
A woman wearing a protective face mask buys a bunch of flowers from a stall in Columbia Road flower market in east London on Mother’s Day, March 22, 2020. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS | AFP | Getty Images This Mother’s Day, it’s more likely to be breakfast in bed, not an opulent buffet. Even though consumers are
The Roku 3 television streaming player menu is shown on a television in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg via Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Square – The payment company’s stock rose more than 6% after the company’s first-quarter earnings topped
People have been on the move since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. With remote work at play, many are leaving expensive cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago for the suburbs or for more affordable cities like Austin, Phoenix or Nashville, according to a LinkedIn report. Rents prices across the country have been adjusting to
Henry McMaster, the governor of South Carolina. Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images At least two states will soon kick workers off pandemic-era programs that expanded and raised unemployment benefits. The governors of Montana and South Carolina announced this week that they are ending their participation in the federal programs at the end of June. The
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a listening session on broadband internet at the New Hampshire Electric Co-op in Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 23, 2021, as she travels to the state to promote the administration’s economic plans. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images As the White House attempts to sell President Joe Biden‘s multi-trillion-dollar
Clutter is one thing. Lots of us have unneeded items in our homes. Books abound on how to de-clutter but these do not seem to apply to aging parents. It bothers the adult children when they see it and say something but the elders do not seem to want to change the situation. Or perhaps
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler told CNBC on Friday the agency is looking into how commission-free retail brokerage apps encourage more stock trading and then make money off m the execution of those trades. “There is a little bit of a conflict of interest,” Gensler said on “Squawk Box,” one day after testifying about this issue