Amazon workers vote against unionization in New York
Labor organizers and experts say they expect the momentum to organize at Amazon’s more than 1,000 warehouses across the country to continue despite the loss.
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When moms out-earn their husbands, they gain more housework, study says
The study used research from the Institute of Family Studies and examined the relationship between spousal income and division of housework from more than 6,000 dual-income, heterosexual married couples between 1999 and 2017.
Spirit Airlines rejects JetBlue’s $3.6B bid, citing concerns over federal approval
The board of Spirit Airlines said it would continue to pursue a merger with Frontier Airlines.
Black businesses booming as pandemic recedes
In the early months of the pandemic, Black-owned small businesses closed at twice the rate of other businesses. But in 2021, Black-owned small businesses were created at the fastest clip in at least 26 years.
New omicron subvariant shows virus mutations aren’t slowing down
Two-and-a-half years after it first spilled into humans, the COVID virus has repeatedly changed its structure and chemistry in ways that confound efforts to bring it fully under control.
COVID deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows
The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to get shots, with vaccine protection waning over time and the elderly and immunocompromised having a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains.
Crypto industry would get its preferred regulator under new bill
A new bipartisan proposal would give the rapidly-expanding sector a victory by handing authority to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, seen by the industry as a more benevolent regulator.
Elon Musk spoke of possible Twitter job cuts with bankers
Musk also brought up several ideas to boost revenue for the company, such as paying “influencers” to create content, following a business model that helped make TikTok a powerhouse social media app.
United States is ‘out of the pandemic phase,’ Fauci says
Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said the United States was in the “full-blown pandemic phase” in the winter, then entered a period he refers to as the “deceleration” phase. The country is transitioning, he said, to the control phase.
The pandemic was hard on office suck-ups. Now they’re back and ready to schmooze.
In a just world, the shift to remote work over the last two years would reward productivity and expose the slackers. But as corporations have been returning to business as usual, guess who can’t wait to get back to the office? Suck-ups, the co-workers we love to hate.
Rents across the United States continue to skyrocket
The burden of rising rents falls heaviest on younger households, as well as on Black and Hispanic families, further exacerbating long-simmering inequalities.
Elon Musk signals with $46.5 billion he’s serious about buying Twitter
Elon Musk’s offer, made public in a filing Thursday, shows he is willing to risk some of the lucrative Tesla shares that have made him the world’s richest person to acquire the platform Musk has described as a modern-day town square.
Education Department gives more borrowers chance of student loan cancellation
Despite fine-tuning over the years, government audits show the Education Department has provided insufficient instructions to contractors managing its loan portfolio. That oversight has resulted in inconsistent loan servicing to the detriment of borrowers.
U.S. businesses get hit with record numbers of disability lawsuits
Associations and business owners say serial plaintiffs filing dozens or hundreds of cases are increasingly using the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to extract tens of thousands of dollars in settlements—and not to promote access as the landmark law intended.
Economic toll worsens as trucks remain stopped at Mexico border
Trucks containing household goods, car parts and other shelf-stable goods have been delayed, tangling up supply chains that involve hundreds of thousands of jobs on both sides of the border.
Inside Twitter, Elon Musk’s bid prompts employee worries, exasperation
CEO Parag Agrawal held a companywide meeting to reassure his 7,500 full-time employee workforce by arguing that one man could not change a culture and that it was up to the company to set strategy
Mortgage rates soar to their highest levels in 11 years
Meanwhile, mortgage applications fell again last week. The market composite index, a measure of total loan application volume, decreased 1.3% from a week earlier, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data.
Trackers who monitor sewers find COVID rising again in much of U.S.
With official reporting of COVID-19 cases and testing data becoming less frequent and less reliable, especially as people test at home, sewage monitoring has gained increasing importance.
Baby formula shortage strains families, forces stores to ration
Roughly 30% of formula products were out of stock across the country the week of April 3, according to data from Datasembly, a retail software company.
The next leap in coronavirus vaccine development could be nasal spray
Many scientists are rethinking their strategy about the best way to fight future variants, by aiming for a higher level of protection: blocking infections altogether. If they succeed, the next vaccine could be a nasal spray.