Prostock-Studio | iStock | Getty Images If you’re among the millions of people across the nation with no health insurance, you may be able to remedy that soon. A special enrollment period to get a plan through the federal Affordable Care Act health exchange (or your state’s exchange if it has one) opens Monday and
Even after being fully inoculated against Covid, some public health precautions are still needed until more data on the vaccines can be collected, Dr. Kavita Patel told CNBC on Friday. It’s well understood the two-shot vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are highly effective at preventing severe disease and death from Covid-19, Patel said in a
Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Bill Michael, U.K. chairman of accounting giant KPMG, has quit his role after telling staff to stop moaning about the coronavirus pandemic during a virtual meeting earlier this week. KPMG on Friday confirmed that Michael, who has headed up the U.K. firm since 2017, had resigned
First-time claims for unemployment insurance totaled 793,000 last week as declining Covid-19 cases provided little relief for the jobs market. The total for the week ended Feb. 6 was above the 760,000 forecast from economists surveyed by Dow Jones but a slight decrease from the previous week’s upwardly revised total of 812,000. The pandemic era
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 20: Dog waste overflows from a city trash can on December 20, 2020 in … [+] Brooklyn. A recent snow storm and budget cuts due to the COVID-19 crisis, feeds fears that daily life services, such as trash collection, have declined dramatically in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis
Indian born-developer Dilip Barot vividly remembers the day he first learned to meditate. That was also the day he began to understand what it means to be mindful and present in the world. Growing up in Gujarat on India’s northwest coast, Dilip lived with his parents and seven siblings in a tiny, two-room 300 SF
By Diane Eastabrook, Next Avenue FRANKFORT, KY – JUNE 19: Hundreds of unemployed Kentucky residents wait in long lines outside the … [+] Kentucky Career Center for help with their unemployment claims on June 19, 2020 in Frankfort, Kentucky. (Photo by John Sommers II/Getty Images) Getty Images At the end of 2018, Ida Lane, 63,
President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with Senators from both parties in the White House on Feb. 11, 2021. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images More unemployment benefits may be on the way as Democrats and the Biden administration pursue a $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package. The legislation would increase the amount of jobless benefits workers receive
Fourth generation cattle rancher Loren Poncia has made Stemple Creek Ranch carbon positive. He’s implemented rotational cattle grazing systems that allow soil and grass to recover, applied compost on pastures and planted worm farms and chicory that aerate the soil. Courtesy of Paige Green President Joe Biden has called on U.S. farmers to lead the
The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Desktop Metal Inc. (NYSE: DM), today, Thursday, December 10, 2020, in celebration of its listing. To honor the occasion, Ric Fulop, Co-Founder and CEO, rings The Opening Bell®. NYSE Roger Lee of Battery Ventures says that “SPAC” used to be a “bad four-letter word” in Silicon Valley. Now, the
We’re sisters who grew up financially insecure. Today, each of us has a net worth of six figures and we teach others about how to build wealth through our financial education company Winenance. While we are now on the road to financial independence, this wasn’t always the case. Here’s how we got started and our top
A bitcoin ATM is seen inside the Big Apple Tobacco Shop on February 08, 2021 in New York. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Pressure is building on Wall Street banks to accept bitcoin as a legitimate asset class – and it’s coming from within, CNBC has learned. Last month, during a town hall meeting
Vanessa Bisorca loves her life as a stay-at-home mom to two teenage children. She also loves fashion. In 2015, the lifelong bargain shopper decided to sell some clothes from her closet to pocket extra cash and make room for new items. Bisorca, 38, downloaded the fashion e-commerce app Poshmark and listed a few pieces of
UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 10: Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., left, and ranking member Rep. Kevin … [+] Brady, R-Texas, talk during the House Ways and Means Committee markup on COVID-19 relief measures. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The major tax provisions of the pandemic relief
More than 400,000 apartment units will reach completion nationwide in the year 2021. getty Apartment demand has been rebounding since summer, although landlords have had to offer sweeter concessions to prospective tenants to get warm bodies into the large numbers of buildings that are finishing construction. The pace at which vacant apartments were absorbed fell
An innovative crowdfunded forensic investigation of the Ohio State Teachers’ Retirement System will … [+] invite public participation. getty An innovative forensic investigation of the nearly $80 billion Ohio State Teachers Retirement System crowdfunded by the Ohio Retired Teachers Association will invite public participation by posting all documents obtained from OSTRS online for public scrutiny;
Getty Images This tax season may end up being even less fun for many filers. On top of figuring out how Covid relief might affect their return, those complications could result in more taxpayers making mistakes and hearing from the IRS, experts say. And depending on the specifics, it could mean a smaller refund or
World Health Organization workers decontaminate the house of a pastor who has just tested positive for Ebola in Beni, June 13, 2019. Sally Hayden | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The World Health Organization on Friday confirmed a third case of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as health officials race
Luis Alvarez The GameStop bubble has come and gone but the rookie investors who speak emoji and Reddit may be here to stay with big implications for brokerage firms, as well as traditional investors who must pay closer attention to where this fast-moving, smartphone app-wielding crowd is moving next. “We believe some of the new
Billionaire Elon Musk is the richest person in the world. As CEO of aerospace company SpaceX, electric car company Tesla and neurotechnology company Neuralink, as well as founder of The Boring Company, which constructs tunnels, Musk has a lot to manage each day. “I work a lot,” Musk told Joe Rogan during the latest episode