Google to keep its 200,000 workers home for another year
That makes parent company, Alphabet, the first major U.S. company to push its comeback into the second half of next year.
That makes parent company, Alphabet, the first major U.S. company to push its comeback into the second half of next year.
Senate Republicans want to reduce the $600 extra payment to $200 until states can implement a new approach that would pay the unemployed 70% of the income they collected before they lost their jobs.
Almost a quarter of the nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in Indiana have occurred at facilities operated by Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County. The facilities are managed by Indianapolis-based American Senior Communities.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Monday reported 561 new COVID-19 cases. It’s the first time in two weeks that the state hasn’t reported at least 600 new daily cases.
The companies say that they can’t rehire many people because they can’t fully reopen properties. But their decisions to withhold the money from payroll have left employees to rely on government unemployment checks.
The Commerce Department said Monday that the June gain in durable goods orders, which was better than expected, followed an even bigger 15.1% increase in May.
The move, announced Monday, come as retailers are rethinking Black Friday in-store bargain shopping as they try to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which has seen a resurgence in a slew of states.
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government—one of several candidates in the global vaccine race.
If talks on ending the dispute fail, the world could face downward pressure on trade at a time when the global economy is already reeling from the pandemic.
Enhanced unemployment benefits are expiring at the end of this week for millions of Americans.
Diana and Jason Brugh talks with podcast host Mason King about how they were able develop a robot in just weeks, what it has been like working together, and what the robot costs. Plus, Diana explains her family’s experience with the coronavirus that helped motivate the project.
The economic outlook of U.S. business economists has improved over the past three months, though their sunnier view may be jeopardized by the resurgence of the coronavirus.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said extending an expiring unemployment benefit—but reducing it substantially—was a top priority.
The state has reported more than 700 new COVID-19 cases daily for six straight days and more than 600 cases daily for the past 13 days.
The FDA also advises Americans to be wary of products that claim to be “FDA-approved,” as none exist, or say they provide protection for “up to 24 hours.”
The overall COVID-19 testing-positivity rate remained at 8.9% Saturday after the state reported 11,570 new tests. Daily testing in Indiana has topped 8,000 for 12 straight days.
A joint statement from the symphony’s management and musicians said they were working together to try to provide health insurance for furloughed orchestra members.
Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Education Betsy Devos and Dr. Deborah Birx, a leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, joined Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and leaders of Marian University on Friday for a roundtable about how to reopen K-12 schools and and universities.
With days to go before enhanced jobless benefits expire, the White House and Senate Republicans are struggling to design a way to scale back the program without overwhelming state unemployment agencies and imperiling aid to more than 20 million Americans.
A nationwide analysis by The Marshall Project and The Associated Press says Indiana’s prison population dropped 4% from March to June, to 25,876.