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An additional 2.4 million Americans filed jobless claims during the past week, bringing the total number of unemployed Americans to 38.6 million, or about 23 percent of the workforce. “The hemorrhaging has continued,” Torsten Slok, chief economist for Deutsche Bank Securities, told the New York Times. Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom has authored a study claiming …
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Another 2.4 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the number of workers sidelined by the coronavirus crisis topped 38 million, new federal data show. That indicates almost a quarter of the US workforce has tried to join the nation’s unemployment rolls in the past nine weeks as the pandemic kneecapped the global …
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended the firing of the State Department’s inspector general and took aim at Democrats investigating him over the decision, singling out Senator Robert Menendez for particularly harsh criticism. President Trump fired Inspector General Steve Linick on Friday at Pompeo’s recommendation, saying in a letter to House Speaker Nancy …
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The U.S. birthrate fell to the lowest level since the federal government began compiling statistics in 1909. In 2019, the U.S. saw a rate of 58.2 births per 1,000 women ages 15–44, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. The number of births in 2019 was …
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The Department of Justice warned California in a Tuesday letter that the state’s lockdown order “facially discriminates against religious exercise” and that Governor Gavin Newsom’s rulings “do not justify California’s actions” in banning in-person worship. Eric S. Dreiband, an assistant attorney general and the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, wrote in a …
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Jason Wahler is donating therapy sessions to families who are grieving the death of loved ones lost to coronavirus. “The Hills” alum partnered with singer Hilary Roberts and The Red Songbird Foundation to launch the #GiveGriefAChance campaign. “We’re looking to help at least 20 people with up to 12 therapy sessions at no cost, who …
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Firearms are the most practical and effective way for the average American to secure his or her life, liberty, and property. A common joke in the American gun community goes something like this: Q: Why do you carry a gun? A: Because carrying a cop is too heavy. This humorous quip should not detract from …
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Germany tried paying people for not working after WWI. It didn’t turn out so well. Massive government debt, sky-high unemployment, the economy frozen, idle workers receiving payments from the government. This might sound like COVID-19, but I am actually talking about post-World War I Germany. If your high school history teacher skipped this story, here’s …
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Senator Ted Cruz on Tuesday called for the Justice Department to investigate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to have the NYPD shut down an Orthodox Jewish school that opened in violation of the city’s social distancing orders. The Texas Republican accused de Blasio of violating the right to freely exercise religion and …
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Snoop Dogg is feeling just like the rest of us during quarantine. Last week, the 48-year-old rapper shared a video of himself in his car while listening to the “Frozen” hit “Let It Go.” “I had to come sit in my car and listen to this s–t man,” he said, taking a moment of respite …
An additional 2.4 million Americans filed jobless claims during the past week, bringing the total number of unemployed Americans to 38.6 million, or about 23 percent of the workforce. “The hemorrhaging has continued,” Torsten Slok, chief economist for Deutsche Bank Securities, told the New York Times. Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom has authored a study claiming …
