#49K jobs added as unemployment falls to 6.3 percent

#49K jobs added as unemployment falls to 6.3 percent

“#49K jobs added as unemployment falls to 6.3 percent” The US economy added 49,000 jobs in January as the labor market rebounded from the latest wave of coronavirus lockdowns, the feds said Friday. The modest payroll growth came after employers shed 227,000 jobs in December amid a deadly wave of COVID-19 infections, marking the first…

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#779,000 filed as COVID crisis continues

#779,000 filed as COVID crisis continues

“#779,000 filed as COVID crisis continues” American workers filed 779,000 applications for unemployment benefits last week in the latest sign that the labor market is still in the throes of its coronavirus crisis. The newest batch of initial jobless claims brought the total for the COVID-19 pandemic to roughly 77.2 million — a number nearly…

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#Cuomo needs to stop killing NYC’s economy

#Cuomo needs to stop killing NYC’s economy

“#Cuomo needs to stop killing NYC’s economy” New York lost 1 million jobs during the pandemic last year, more than half of them in the city. And that doesn’t include jobs that are being done out-of-state by remote workers who therefore spend nothing in the city. Yet the politicians keep ignoring these bitter facts, and…

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#COVID-19 could spark record spike in inequality, Oxfam warns

#COVID-19 could spark record spike in inequality, Oxfam warns

“#COVID-19 could spark record spike in inequality, Oxfam warns” The COVID-19 pandemic could cause the biggest increase in global inequality on record, Oxfam warned in a new report Monday. The health crisis has sparked a “simultaneous and substantial rise” in income and wealth inequality across dozens of countries, adding to the wealth of the world’s…

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#Joe Biden’s far-left ‘unity’ will divide us: Goodwin

#Joe Biden’s far-left ‘unity’ will divide us: Goodwin

“#Joe Biden’s far-left ‘unity’ will divide us: Goodwin” The joke survives the test of time and, under the circumstances, deserves repeating. As the late journalist Mickey Carroll told it, a suburban town with a population 90 percent Irish and 10 percent Jewish held a mayoral election involving two candidates — one Irish and one Jewish. …

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