Students in the 5 day pre-K class at Immanuel Unite Church of Christ line up to go outside after helping to sort donated food items. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Covid hospitalizations a...
Tag: U.S. Economy
Here are 3 things to know about unemployment claims
A job seeker receives information from a recruiter during a job fair in Miami, Florida, on Dec. 16, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images The number of people filing for unemployment be...
Biden will make 400 million N95 masks available to Americans for free
Workers produce N95 respirators at Protective Health Gear (PHG) in Paterson, New Jersey, U.S., January 14, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters President Joe Biden will make 400 million highly protective ...
U.S. companies are expecting to pay an average 3.4% raise to workers in 2022
U.S. employers expect to pay an average 3.4% raise to their workers in 2022, according to a Willis Towers Watson survey. That projected wage growth is faster than actual raises paid in the prior two y...
Some Americans blocked from ordering Biden’s free Covid tests in early website launch
Take home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, are seen in this illustration taken January 11, 2...
WHO says omicron won’t be last Covid variant as global cases surge by 20% in a week
Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme attends a news conference on the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Geneva, Switze...
Labor Department vows to protect workers from Covid after mandate blocked
US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh speaks about Labor Unions during an event in the East Room of the White House September 8, 2021, in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The Labor ...
How U.S. economic sanctions work
Economic sanctions remain one of the most powerful tools the United States has in its foreign policy arsenal. And as Russian forces continue to amass along the border with Ukraine, officials in the U....
GE suspends Covid vaccine and testing rules after Supreme Court blocks Biden mandate
An employee helps install a traction motor onto the truck of a General Electric Evolution Series Tier 4 diesel locomotive at the GE Manufacturing Solutions facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Luke Sharrett...
Why used car prices are pushing inflation higher
A pedestrian walks past a certified pre-owned car sales lot in Alhambra, California on January 12, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Despite President Joe Biden’s upbeat comments on w...
Biden says U.S. to provide high quality masks for free to Americans
US President Joe Biden holds up a KN95 mask as he delivers an update on his Administrations whole-of-government COVID-19 surge response at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 13, 2022. Jim W...
Biden deploys military medical personnel to hospitals in six states
A soldier transports a patient at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 30, 2021. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Thursday will announce the...
Despite higher wages, inflation gave average worker a 2.4% pay cut last year
A San Francisco grocery store. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Inflation is taking a big bite out of workers’ paychecks, eroding many of the raises businesses have offered to attrac...
Omicron less severe, hospital stays shorter at large California health system
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Patients at a large health system in Southern Calif...
Omicron disrupts essential services as workers call out
A US Marine veteran is treated by medical workers in a negative pressure room in the Covid-19 ward at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare system campus and medical center in W...
Sen. Paul’s accusations ‘kindles the crazies,’ incited death threats
U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci called out Republican Sen. Rand Paul during a congressional hearing Tuesday, accusing the lawmaker of spreading bad information and inciting death thre...
Covid cases on cruise ships surged 30-fold in two weeks
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to the ...
U.S. sets fresh records for Covid hospitalizations and cases with 1.5 million new infections
Medical staff treat coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient Frank Clark in his room on an isolated medical unit floor at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, U.S., January 5, 2022. Shannon...
Drs. Fauci, Walensky testify before Senate on U.S. omicron response
[The stream is slated to start at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The top health leaders in the U.S. will testify before the Senate on Tuesday about...
Pfizer CEO says two Covid vaccine doses aren’t ‘enough for omicron’
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla addresses a press conference after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the factory of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Puurs, Bel...
Johnson & Johnson splitting itself up could come with some risks
Johnson & Johnson announced in November that it plans to spin off its consumer business into a new publicly traded company by November 2023. The news didn’t surprise Wall Street. “The ...
Moderna CEO says fall booster shots will likely target omicron
Moderna is working on a booster shot that will target the omicron variant of Covid for this fall as nations around the world prepare to distribute annual vaccinations against the virus. “We are ...
Pfizer CEO says omicron vaccine will be ready in March
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla addresses a press conference after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the factory of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Puurs, Bel...
Here’s where the jobs landed last month — in one chart
The leisure and hospitality sector led hiring in December as restaurant and bar managers added wait staff, cooks and bartenders to payrolls ahead of the holidays. That sector saw net job growth of 53,...
Pfizer vaccine effective, protects against MIS-C, CDC says
Safeway pharmacist Ashley McGee fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 booster vaccination at a vaccination booster shot clinic on October 01, 2021 in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty...
FDA shortens Moderna booster waiting period to 5 months for adults
A healthcare worker prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site operated by SOMOS Community Care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Manhattan in New York City, Janua...
Moderna CEO says fourth Covid shot may be needed, citing efficacy issue
A nurse prepares a syringe with a dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Enfermera Isabel Zendal hospital in Madrid, Spain, July 23, 2021. Juan Medina | Reuters Moderna CEO Step...