Topline The U.S. is one of the most divided countries when it comes to attitudes about the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new Pew Research Center poll published Thursday, underscoring the political...
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Millions Of Young People Worldwide Remain Unemployed Because Of The Pandemic, UN Says
Topline The number of unemployed young people around the world is set to hit 73 million in 2022, a slight improvement from the year before, but still well above global youth unemployment rates before ...
U.S. Repeating Covid-19 Pandemic Mistakes
In the latest episode of his HBO show “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” John Oliver scored the … [+] U.S. response to the monkeypox outbreak a “no” on a scale of one to 100 (Photo by Rich Fu...
Weapons Contractors Thrive Despite Pandemic, Supply Chain Issues
America’s top weapons contractors had another banner year in 2021 despite labor and supply chain issues linked to the COVID pandemic and other global economic challenges, according to the latest editi...
HBO’s Los Espookys Gets Season 2 Premiere Date After Three-Year Pandemic Delay
The Latino-led cast of ‘Los Espookys’ return for season two of the dark comedy. HBO After a three-year wait, the zany, absurdist dark comedy Los Espookys, featuring a predominantly Latino ...
When Does New-Car Supply Bounce Back? Not In July, Or In 2022, Either
Sure, people are complaining about gas prices and interest rates, but that doesn’t seem to be … [+] curtailing high demand, or high new-vehicle prices. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images D...
Energy, Oil, And Gas: The Network Visibility Imperative
U.S. and global oil, gas, energy, and utility companies are looking at challenges in their markets, rarely seen in recent years. The complexity of delivering energy to previous high standards is stagg...
Biden speaks about his negative Covid test and the broader pandemic effort
President Joe Biden spoke in the the White House Rose Garden after testing negative for Covid-19 and ending the strict isolation measures he had been following since contracting the coronavirus last w...
Coronavirus Likely Emerged In Wuhan Market, New Studies Find
Topline A pair of studies suggest the coronavirus originally jumped from animals to humans in a market in Wuhan, not a laboratory. Two studies find that coronavirus stemmed from the Huanan Market in W...
Licensing Still A Big Business During The Pandemic, As Sales Top $315 Billion
The Licensing Expo, held in Las Vegas in May, brought licensed brands and manufacturers together to … [+] create merchandise deals. Licensing International Pokemon, superheroes, Disney Princesse...
Universal Free School Lunches Will End Soon After Cuts To Pandemic-Era Spending
Topline Universal access to free school lunches will come to an end in the coming weeks, after expanded federal funding passed during the early part of the pandemic was not renewed in the latest spend...
Harvard’s Mass General Hospital Is Rolling Out A Massive Hospital-At-Home Program
Mass General Brigham (MGB) hospital system is one of the most famous organizations in the world, known for its cutting edge clinical care, research, and innovation. In its latest venture to reduce spe...
All Jobs Businesses Cut in Pandemic Are Back, but Not Where They Were Lost
Private-sector payrolls exceeded prepandemic levels in June, taking just over two years to close a 21 million job gap that was created in the spring of 2020 and reshaping the labor market in the proce...
The pandemic snacking and drinking habits that are here to stay
People visit the M&M store in Times Square on July in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic significantly changed consumer behavior from where they shopped to what they...
A New Study By CVS Shows That People Want More Personalized & Curated Care
The newly released CVS Health 2022 Health Care Insights Study illuminates the current state of healthcare and the changing notions of consumer preferences. A lot has changed with regards to healthcare...
Bank Of America Fined $225 Million Over ‘Botched’ Handling Of Unemployment Benefits At Height Of Pandemic
Topline Federal banking regulators fined Bank of America on Thursday after finding its fraud filter unlawfully froze customers’ prepaid unemployment insurance benefit accounts, leaving “distressed con...
US homebuyers are backing out of deals at the highest rate since the start of the pandemic — here’s what that means for real estate
Seller beware: US homebuyers are backing out of deals at the highest rate since the start of the pandemic — here’s what that means for real estate As a well-known inflation-proof asset, real estate ha...
Children Are Doing 20% Less Physical Activity Amid The Pandemic, Study Finds
Topline Topline: Children’s physical activity worldwide dropped by 20% over the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a JAMA Pediatrics study released Monday – a “developmental turning point,” researchers s...
How the pandemic may lead more manufacturers to the U.S.
More and more U.S. companies are moving their production and manufacturing facilities back home due to the pandemic supply chain snarls and the insufficient production abroad. As a result, it has beco...
Home prices may still rise, but car values are set to fall from pandemic peak: Goldman
Homes and vehicles are two big-ticket items that most American families will require financing to obtain. There’s some good news — and bad news — when looking at both assets in the next two years, acc...
Ford Q2 China sales were worst since Covid pandemic began
Visitors walk past a Ford Escape Titanium at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai on April 17, 2019. Greg Baker| AFP | Getty Images DETROIT — Ford Motor joined its crosstown rival General Motors in repo...
Framing An “Abuse-Of-Crisis Prevention Act” To Confine The Federal Government
I’ve been through a few of these. I was here at 9/11, I was here during the financial crisis in ‘08, I was here during the fiscal cliff. We occasionally have these great crises and when they occur we ...
Here Are The Winners And Losers Among The Top-Selling Vehicles In The Pandemic Era
The Ford F-150 pickup truck remains the top-selling vehicle in the U.S., but component shortages and … [+] other factors have caused sales to drop by around a third since the start of the pandem...
How Can The Media And Entertainment Industry Lure Employees Back To The Office
CENTURY CITY, CA – AUGUST 12: A general view of the CAA talent agency in Century City on August 12, … [+] 2020 in Century City, California. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) GC Ima...
5 Musts To Achieve Covid-19 Independence
Far from cause for celebration, this 4th of July marks the 6th wave of Covid-19, with BA.4 and BA.5 variants leading the parade. As one variant of concern follows another, the world remains in a state...
Black And Hispanic Households Hit Harder By Inflation—On Top Of Economic Inequality Caused By The Pandemic
Topline Black and Hispanic Americans are affected more by record inflation than other groups, according to research published Thursday by the New York Federal Reserve, in one of the first studies of h...
Vermont Ski Town Wins $62 Million Financing After Pandemic Spurred Growth
New funds will help create expanded infrastructure, water supplies and a new village, boosting … [+] business in Vermont. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) ASSOCIATED PRESS I wrote earlier this month (”In ...
China’s Xi arrives in Hong Kong in first trip off mainland since pandemic
Chinese President Xi Jinping is pictured here speaking during the unveiling of the Communist Party’s new Politburo Standing Committee on October 25, 2017 in Beijing, China. Lintao Zhang | Getty ...
North America Auto Production Slowly Rebounds: S&P Global Mobility
Ford Motor Co. Dearborn Truck Plant Photo: Charlotte Smith/Ford Motor Co. North American auto production is rebounding somewhat in 2022 – S&P Global Mobility said this week it expects production o...
California Hate Crimes Hit 20-Year High In 2021—Driven By Covid-Era ‘Pandemic Of Hate’
Topline The number of hate crimes reported in California increased by nearly one-third in 2021 to reach the highest level in 20 years, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday, saying t...