Pexels Numerous football and basketball meetings in southeast Minnesota have been cited by Winona County Health and Human Services as sources for COVID-19 outbreaks. The health department said the outbreaks were traced to events in Lewiston and Winona between Sunday, July 26 and Thursday, July 30. Anyone attending one of …
Read More »Better-than-expected data on U.S. jobs seen as latest from ‘Easy Gains’
(Bloomberg) – The third straight month of the U.S. labor market of solid improvement from the depths of the pandemic could very well be its last in a while. Workers returned to low-wage jobs at restaurants and retailers as large cities – particularly New York – reopened early in the …
Read More »Yellowstone County reports COVID-19 related deaths
RiverStone Health, the Yellowstone County Public Health Department, reported two additional COVID-19-related deaths Saturday. One death is due to the COVID-19 outbreak at Canyon Creek Memory Care. On Tuesday, August 4, a woman in her 80s who lived near Canyon Creek in a Yellowstone County hospital died. On Wednesday, August …
Read More »Deadly Rabbit Virus Spreads to Los Angeles County – NBC Los Angeles
A deadly virus targeting domestic and wild rabbits has been discovered for the first time in Los Angeles County, public health officials said. Hemorrhagic rabbit disease (RHDV2) was found in wild rabbits in Littlerock in the Antelope Valley and Juniper Hills in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, the …
Read More »Coronavirus has already hit the Social Security finances. Trump’s holiday payroll tax may make it less so
The finances of the law programs have long been troubled. And the crunch of coronavirus-induced layoffs has only deepened the problem by reducing the amount of income tax payments in their trust funds. This is not a distant problem that grandchildren of retirees have to deal with. If this economic …
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