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US President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump to update him on transition planning in the Oval Office at the White House on November 10, 2016 Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Former President Barack Obama criticized the federal government’s coronavirus response in a thinly veiled swipe at the Trump administration during a […]

An empty parking lot is shown at a closed JC Penney store in Roseville, Mich., May 8, 2020. Paul Sancya | AP A piece of J.C. Penney‘s proposal to emerge from bankruptcy includes spinning its real estate into a publicly traded real estate investment trust.  As part of a plan filed with the bankruptcy court, Penney […]

Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., is seen on the House steps of the Capitol before the House passed a $2 trillion coronavirus aid package by voice vote on Friday, March 27, 2020. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call | Getty Images Rep. Justin Amash announced Saturday that he will not be pursuing a third-party candidacy in this […]

It’s not too late for the United States – driven by the cutting-edge capabilities of its technology companies – to leverage the coronavirus tragedy into a historic opportunity. It would be built around scientifically novel but increasingly available means to prevent future pandemics through constructing a “global immune system.” David Bray, the director of the […]

Gone are the days of leisurely browsing the aisles of grocery stores.  Instead, customers are getting used to new grocery store fixtures: Mask-wearing employees, plexiglass barriers at cash registers, one-way aisles and antibacterial wipe dispensers. Some of those will become the norm. Others will fade away as coronavirus cases decline. But many analysts predict the […]

The coronavirus relief package lets borrowers forgo student loan payments until this October with no interest or penalties.  It is not a small gesture. Americans owe more than $1.4 trillion in student debt. The average borrower carried more than $35,000 in loans in 2019. Story Young, 30, dropped out of college 10 years ago after burning […]

Our essential workers are dying. Just this week, we learned of three more Amazon warehouse workers who have died due to Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths to seven. Unofficial tallies, mostly tracked by concerned Amazon employees who receive text message alerts whenever one of their colleagues catches the coronavirus, peg the total […]

You may qualify for paid leave Justin Paget Qualified workers, including those telecommuting, can get two weeks of paid leave at full pay courtesy of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. Valid reasons include being unable to work because you are under quarantine order, have coronavirus symptoms and are seeking diagnosis, or must care for […]

Labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci began studying retirement in 2008, when the Great Recession was making it impossible for millions of Americans to retire. “The phenomenon of Granny working in McDonald’s really started to ramp up,” said Ghilarducci, who leads the Retirement Equity Lab at The New School in New York.  Yet, as bad as it was then, […]

A New York City Department of Sanitation worker wearing a mask and gloves collects the trash amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 30, 2020 in New York City, United States. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Sanitation workers across the country are trying to adjust to unusually high waste levels in residential areas as the coronavirus […]