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An additional 3.8 million Americans filed jobless claims in the past week, the Department of Labor reported on Tuesday, amid continuing economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Total U.S. unemployment since the start of the pandemic has soared to 30 million, or 18 percent of the workforce. States are currently formulating plans to reopen businesses …
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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a new coronavirus plan based on the GI Bill to give front-line workers free college tuition, billing it as the first program of its kind in the country. Those eligible under the “Future for Frontliners” plan would be workers including “the ones staffing our hospitals and nursing homes, stocking the …
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Macy’s plans to reopen 68 US stores on Monday in states that have loosened coronavirus lockdowns, the department store operator said on Thursday, as more retailers sought to get business going after a crushing month of closures. Cincinnati, Ohio-based Macy’s, the largest US department store operator by sales, said it expects to have all of …
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The Oscars and streaming have reached a detente. For one year and one year only, streaming-only films can be nominated for the 2021 Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week. How generous of our Hollywood overlords. Their saintly flip-flop is, like everything else, caused by the unprecedented disruptions of …
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Kourtney Kardashian is doing the Lord’s work. The 41-year-old reality star supported her ex-boyfriend Scott Disick on Wednesday — and sent a message about the importance of social distancing — by slipping into a look from his Talentless clothing line. Kardashian modeled Disick’s black “Stay Home” hoodie ($129) and matching sweatpants ($129) on Instagram while …
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Zoom shares continued their two-day slide on Thursday after the company backtracked on a claim that it had 300 million users. The video-conferencing platform made the embarrassing admission in a quiet update to last week’s blog post where it had said that its user base has grown 50 percent to 300 million amid the coronavirus …
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Twitter beat Wall Street’s expectations in its Thursday earnings report, but shares dipped in early morning trading after the company warned of slowing ad sales due to the coronavirus. The social network’s stock had climbed as much as 11 percent in pre-market trading after it reported a smaller than expected loss amid higher revenue and …
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Welcome back to Bel-Air. Will Smith, 51, brought back the cast of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” for his Snapchat show “Will From Home” on Wednesday and Thursday. Former castmates Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton Banks), DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jazz), Tatyana Ali (Ashley Banks), Karyn Parsons (Hilary Banks), Daphne Maxwell Reid (Aunt Vivian) and Joseph Marcell (Geoffrey) …
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US stocks slid Thursday as Wall Street winced at new data showing the coronavirus crisis has put more than 30 million Americans out of work in just six weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped as much as 378.26 points, or 1.5 percent, to 24,255.60 in early trading after the US Department of Labor said …
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More than 3.8 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, meaning the coronavirus crisis has sidelined more than 30 million workers, new federal data show. That means 18.6 percent of the nation’s workforce — more people than the entire state of Texas — tried to collect unemployment checks in the last six weeks as …
An additional 3.8 million Americans filed jobless claims in the past week, the Department of Labor reported on Tuesday, amid continuing economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Total U.S. unemployment since the start of the pandemic has soared to 30 million, or 18 percent of the workforce. States are currently formulating plans to reopen businesses …
