Small Businesses Struggle To Repay COVID-19 Disaster Loans COVID-19 EIDL loans provided crucial support to small businesses during the pandemic, but now pose challenges in repayment and growth. Top News · Sep 6, 2024
Gavin Williamson to face Covid inquiry over impact of school closures Then education secretary faced repeated calls to resign over school and exam procedures during pandemic The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2024
Harris must awaken the nation from the 'sleeper effect' at the debate with Trump—and dispel the oft-repeated falsehood that the booming U.S. economy isn’t doing so well Is the U.S. economy better than it was 4 years ago? Absolutely! Fortune · Sep 6, 2024
View from The Hill: What if Bill Shorten had become PM in 2019? Politics is full of “what ifs?” As Bill Shorten prepares to exit parliament early next year, and Anthony Albanese may be on the path to a minority government, the question invites itself: what if Shorten had won the 2019 election? The Conversation · Sep 6, 2024
Friday briefing: What’s behind the rapid rise of school suspensions in England? In today’s newsletter: Record numbers of pupils are being removed from class, with dire consequences for their attainment levels in later life. But is the pandemic solely to blame for this increase in bad behaviour? The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2024
Servicenow CFO Gina Mastantuono: Empowering Future Women Leaders Learn about Gina Mastantuono's journey to CFO at ServiceNow, her career highlights, mentorship commitment, and successful leadership during the pandemic. Top News · Sep 5, 2024
80% forced to quit: PCI report on Covid job losses details how media ignored govt directives As many as 80 percent of journalists who were laid off during the Covid-19 pandemic were forced to resign, opt for voluntary retirements, or be terminated from their positions by their news organisations, according to a report by the Press Council of India. Only 37 percent received severance pay. Newslaundry · Sep 5, 2024
China's Xi Promises $50 Billion For Africa Over Next Three Years Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged over $50 billion in financing for Africa over the next three years, promising to deepen cooperation in infrastructure and trade with the continent as he addressed Beijing's biggest summit since the pandemic. International Business Times · Sep 5, 2024
House Republicans Subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Over Fraud Investigation House Republicans subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over 0 million fraud scheme involving Feeding Our Future nonprofit during COVID-19 pandemic. Top News · Sep 4, 2024
Republican-led House panel subpoenas Tim Walz over $250m Covid relief fraud Minnesota governor has conceded state education officials did insufficient due diligence to prevent scheme The Guardian - US · Sep 4, 2024
Humans infecting animals infecting humans − from COVID-19 to bird flu, preventing pandemics requires protecting all species When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, humans had been the only species with reported cases of the disease. While early genetic analyses pointed to horseshoe bats as the evolutionary hosts of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, no reports had yet surfaced indicating… The Conversation · Sep 4, 2024
Preparing for a pandemic that never came ended up setting off another − how an accidental virus release triggered 1977’s ‘Russian flu’ Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly tested positive for an H1N1 swine influenza virus. The Conversation · Sep 4, 2024
Australia’s economy posts worst performance since 1992, excluding pandemic Gross domestic product declines 1.5 percent on per capita basis following successive interest rate hikes. Al Jazeera · Sep 4, 2024
Canada turning away more foreigners amid rise in anti-immigration sentiment Ratio of refused visitor visas to approved ones was higher in recent months than any point since height of the pandemic The Guardian - US · Sep 3, 2024
Top News · Sep 3, 2024 Former NY Gov. Cuomo To Testify Publicly Before Congress Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo set to testify before Congress on controversial nursing home advisory during Covid-19 pandemic.
Salon · Sep 3, 2024 How to fight when MAGA comes to town In "Chaos Comes Calling," Sasha Abramsky shows how ugly national politics hurt local communities — and how to heal
Top News · Sep 3, 2024 Former NY Gov. Cuomo To Testify Before Congress On Nursing Home Advisory Former NY Governor Cuomo set to testify publicly before Congress on controversial nursing home advisory during Covid-19 pandemic.
Al Jazeera · Sep 2, 2024 10,000 US hotel workers strike over Labor Day weekend Workers walk off the job in eight US cities over pandemic-era cost-cutting measures.
The Guardian - US · Sep 1, 2024 More than 10,000 US hotel workers strike on Labor Day weekend Staff demand wage increases and reversal of pandemic-era cutbacks that impose ‘painful’ working conditions
Top News · Sep 1, 2024 Hotel Workers Authorize Strikes Over Daily Room Cleaning Dispute Hotel workers in the U.S. face challenges in labor disputes over daily room cleaning and better working conditions amidst the pandemic.
The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2024 Strikes start at top hotel chains during Labor Day weekend as housekeepers seek higher wages Hotel housekeepers have for years waged a fierce battle to restore automatic daily room cleaning that was scaled back at many properties during the pandemic
AAP · Sep 1, 2024 Economy yet to turn a corner as higher rates bite Australia is expected to post its slowest annual economic growth rate outside of the pandemic lockdowns since the 1990s as inflation persists.
Salon · Aug 31, 2024 Harris has divided the grocery industry While one of the country's largest grocery unions has endorsed Harris, corporate supermarket leaders have concerns
The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2024 ‘Scandalous’ £3.4bn UK state spending on private consultants last year New figures reveal that public bodies paid out at least 60% more to consultancies in 2023-24 than it did pre-pandemic
The Conversation · Aug 30, 2024 The Last of Us and redemption: finding hope, light and God in the apocalyptic darkness With a catastrophic fungal pandemic creating the “infected”, a post-apocalypse breakdown of society, and a moral quest amidst humans hunting humans, PlayStation game and HBO TV phenomenon The Last of Us has exhilarated and terrified millions of gamers and viewers.