Headline News Archive

2020

October

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• There’s nobody to fix ovens, dishwashers and other appliances. Gone are the days of the lonely Maytag repairman. The repairman of 2020—with few exceptions, it’s still most often a

• Eight countries accepting Americans for remote-work trips. The pandemic has proved challenging for digital nomads, people who travel the world working remotely. With countries closing their borders and air travel heavily restricted,

21

• McConnell moves to head off stimulus deal. The top Senate Republican told colleagues that he had advised the White House against striking a pre-election deal with Democrats to deliver pandemic aid, fearing

15

• Black homeowner, 2 appraisals, $62,000 difference. The owner thinks her lower home appraisal was skewed by her race and her neighborhood — and a recent study says those factors play more

14

• The tenants who evicted their landlord. A new kind of housing movement has been growing across America. In city after city, renters have begun to see themselves as a class,

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• Teachers can look inside students’ homes now. Remote learning has brought school home for students during the pandemic, turning a living room or bedroom into a makeshift classroom. But many families worry

• Amazon's latest gimmicks are pushing the limits of privacy. Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection.  

• White House pivots again on stimulus negotiations. Trump aides now call for Congress to repurpose unused small-business funding, the latest in a series of approaches to a relief bill.

10

• Airbnb to make masks, enhanced cleaning mandatory. Unsure about using vacation rentals in the era of social distancing and anti-maskers? Airbnb is implementing mandatory health and safety protocols for both guests and

09

• The legacy of slavery made my grandmother fear investing. Those who like to pigeonhole Blacks as financial illiterates argue that the disparity results from the failure of Blacks to comprehend the importance of investing.

08

• Chase to spend $30 billion to close the racial wealth gap. Amid a national reckoning on racism, JP Morgan Chase says it will dedicate $30 billion to closing the racial wealth gap, from granting loans that help

• How to use your heart and head on personal finance. Two new books leave it up to you to determine your goals. The behavior one author advocates amounts to common sense. Manage your money in

• Two Cleveland houses tell a story of America’s unequal recovery. The disparity in house prices on the two sides of the city reinforces Cleveland’s wealth gap. People such as Bihuniak and the newlyweds

07

• The Cares Act gave corporations millions, no strings attached. At least 133 companies received a total of more than $5 billion in refunds through the Cares Act. Regardless, some of the largest staff reductions of the

• Trump ends stimulus talks; fed chair warns of "tragic fallout". President Trump said he was calling off the talks just hours after Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, argued that it was better to

06

• Moms, Black Americans, educators are in trouble as economic recovery slows. The economic recovery sputtered in September. Working mothers and Black Americans in particular had already been falling behind, and new numbers imply they lost even

• Mothers' careers are at extraordinary risk. Being a mother has long been a liability at work. But with work, school, and child care now happening under one roof for so many

05

• Low interest rates benefit some but carry risks for the ecconomy. While consumers have snapped up zero percent auto loans and mortgages at sub-3 percent rates, helping the economy by driving sales of new homes and

• How to clean your hotel room during the pandemic. Hotels around the world have scrambled to implement new cleaning and sanitization protocols since the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic

01

• Millions of Americans risk losing power, water as utility bills pile up. The torrent of missed electric, water and gas payments underscores the severe cash crunch that continues to plague Americans nearly seven months after the deadly

September

25

• Nearly 9 million people didn’t get stimulus payments. In a newly released report, the Government Accountability Office recommends that the Treasury Department and the IRS do more to help track down an estimated 8.7

24

• Time to get off the fence about refinancing your mortgage. Consider this: A new 0.5 percent “adverse market fee” will be added to many refi loans starting December 1. Since it typically takes 40 to 60 days

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• U.S. housing boom good for some, leaves others in the cold. Total U.S. home sales soared in August, but a record crunch in housing supply sent prices surging. That is a fresh reminder that while

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• ‘Tsunami’ of hotel closures is coming. The Luxe Rodeo Drive is the first L.A.-area luxury hotel to go out of business because of the pandemic. An unusually high loan

21

• Nursing homes need aid; what are industries' responsibilities?. A special panel seeks more money for testing, personal protective equipment, registered nurses, infection control training and staff salary increases, but the panel is silent