Monthly Archives: June 2020

Netflix to switch $ 100 million in cash to black-owned banks

(Bloomberg) – Netflix Inc. will spend up to $ 100 million on lenders serving the black community, making it the largest company that has yet promised cash to underfunded financial institutions. The online TV giant will begin by transferring $ 25 million to the Black Economic Development Initiative, a new …

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Boris Johnson: Verified Economic Speech

Image copyright AFP / Getty Images The Prime Minister has set out how £ 5bn would be spent on infrastructure projects to make the UK “recover better”. Boris Johnson compared his plan to the New Deal of former President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Reality Check has taken …

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Michigan bar linked to more than 100 cases of Covid-19

The Ingham County Health Department is asking customers who visited Harper’s Restaurant & Brew Pub between June 12 and 20 to quarantine and report Covid-19 cases, the department said in a statement. Of the more than 100 positive cases, 12 are of secondary transmission, Linda S. Vail, Ingham County Health …

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