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Jul 09 2020
News
Unemployment Claims Level Off as New Job Losses Offset by Hiring
The number of Americans receiving continuing unemployment benefits has held near 20 million in recent weeks
The number of workers seeking new unemployment benefits has plateaued at a historically high level, showing that many Americans are still losing their jobs amid a broadly healing labor market.
Weekly jobless benefit applications, historically a proxy for layoffs, have held
Wall Street Journal (News)
Sep 29 2020
News
Coronavirus death toll hits 1M worldwide
There have been over 1 million coronavirus-associated deaths worldwide since the illness was first reported in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
In January, as the virus began to spread outside of the country's borders, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global health emergency, but it wasn’t officially deemed a global pandemic until
Fox News Digital
Jul 09 2020
News
For 16th straight week, unemployment filings top 1 million
When Americans lose their jobs, they file for unemployment benefits, and the government has kept track of the number of these filings every week since 1967. Up until fairly recently, with a healthy domestic job market, the weekly tally has been about 210,000.
But as we've discussed, looking at historical data, we know what things look like when there's an economic crisis. In early 2009
MSNBC
May 19 2021
News
New York's Probe Into Trump Organization Is Now A Criminal Inquiry
The New York state attorney general's office has widened its probe into the Trump Organization to include an examination of potential criminal wrongdoing, according to the office's spokesman.
Previously, the office was investigating former President Donald Trump's namesake company in a solely civil matter with New York Attorney General Letitia James focusing on whether the company
NPR (Online News)
May 29 2015
Opinion
OPINION: Why doctors quit
They are turning into data entry clerks because of the electronic records mandate.
Charles Krauthammer
Oct 20 2021
Opinion
COVID-19 is plummeting in Florida — DeSantis's critics hardest hit
Late this summer, COVID-19 finally took off in Florida and began ravaging its elderly population, courtesy of the delta variant. Some people were very pleased about it.
Critics of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis were positively gleeful. They had been waiting a very long time for data that would finally back up their case against him — that for avoiding severe restrictions for the first 18
Washington Examiner
Nov 12 2020
News
Hospital ICUs running out of space due to COVID-19 surges across the country
Hospitals around the country are running out of beds in their intensive care units due to the uptick in COVID-19 cases.
The U.S. is averaging about 125,000 new cases of the virus a day, according to an ABC News analysis of the trends across 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., from using data from the COVID Tracking Project.
Wednesday marked the eighth consecutive
ABC News (Online)
Feb 09 2021
Analysis
Donald Trump will probably be acquitted of inciting an insurrection
DONALD TRUMP accounts for half of all presidential impeachments. He holds the unique distinction of having been impeached twice, compared with once each for Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. None has been convicted at trial (the constitution dictates that the House impeaches a president and the Senate tries him). Mr Trump’s acquittal took place almost exactly one year ago; his second trial
The Economist
Feb 18 2021
Fact Check
FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
President Joe Biden got some facts wrong and spun others in a Feb. 16 town hall that aired on CNN.
He said it was “not true” that he had revised his 100-day school reopening goal, saying it “was reported” that he meant a majority of schools only need to be open one day a week. That’s exactly what his press secretary had said.
Biden left the false impression that the preceding
FactCheck.org
Jul 05 2020
News
Amid pandemic, fewer students seek federal aid for college
The number of high school seniors applying for U.S. federal college aid plunged in the weeks following the sudden closure of school buildings this spring — a time when students were cut off from school counselors, and families hit with financial setbacks were reconsidering plans for higher education.
In the first weeks of the pandemic, the number of new applications fell by nearly half
Associated Press