The number of people who lost their jobs and submitted to the state as a federal UI during the week jumped to 1.43 million. A rate of 6 million a month. By Wolf Richter for WOLFSTREET. What happened in last week’s report for unemployment claims was disturbing: “Start” claims under …
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When Trump receives election information, the hands of national security officials are tied
On Monday night, Twitter stopped a user’s account after posting what the US intelligence community had just cited as a specific example of Russia’s attempts to “denigrate” Joe Biden. The post may not have gone unnoticed, except for the fact that Trump himself retweeted it to his more than 85 …
Read More »Trump accuses Biden of leaving his hometown ahead of DNC speech
OLD FORGE, Pa. President Donald Trump tried to portray rival Joe Biden as a working-class figure when he accepted the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday, close to the president’s residence of the former vice president in Pennsylvania. “I hope he does well. I’ll be honest, I do,” Trump said. …
Read More »New Barcelona boss Ronald Koeman has three top transfer goals – report
Now that Ronald Koeman is the manager of Barcelona, he gets the wonderful opportunity to speculate on what goals Barcelona transfer has for big acquisitions that he wants to bring this summer. Then immediately receive those transfer fund requests rejected by Bartomeu. AS report that there are three main players …
Read More »Small businesses rely on the Postal Service to survive the pandemic. Delays put them in danger.
Beth Nolan’s shipping costs have doubled in the past six weeks. Her company has spent so much on delays by the U.S. Postal Service that she said she recently had to fire an employee while another worker turned the wall of her kitchen into a giant calendar filled with notes …
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