How the Fed Has Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic | St. Louis Fed
Some important actions the Fed has taken include lowering the policy rate to near zero, increasing its purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities to stabilize those markets, and introducing emergency lending programs.
DoorDash is expanding its robotic footprint into the kitchen. The delivery service is set to acquire Chowbotics, a Bay Area-based robotics best known for its salad-making robot, Sally. TechCrunch has confirmed the acquisition, which was first noted by The Wall Street Journal. “We have long admired the work that Chowbotics has done to increase access […]
How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect Employment and Family Income | Congressional Budget Office
This interactive tool allows users to explore how various policies to increase the federal minimum wage would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.
Kroger to pay $100 to workers who get COVID-19 vaccination | Reuters
Supermarket chain Kroger Co said on Friday it would give $100 to workers who get a COVID-19 vaccination, joining a growing list of U.S. retailers incentivizing employees to get inoculated against the novel coronavirus as soon as possible.
Americans say it takes an average net worth of $2.27 million to be considered "wealthy." Here's how much money U.S. families actually have at every age.
Commentary: Pure Michigan program is expensive and ineffective
The state's Pure Michigan program subsidizes a tourism industry by running expensive advertisements out of state in order to lure tourists to Michigan. Research shows the program is expensive and ineffective. It's also unfair and may be undermining attempts to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
Latest jobs report shows why the unemployment rate needs fixing - Phil Davis
Many economists would agree that the official U.S. unemployment rate is an inadequate measure of actual labor market conditions. Although this is one of the most cited pieces of data on the economy as a whole, not many people understand how this indicator is calculated and who is and – more importantly – who isn’t included in it. The latest data, which found that joblessness fell from 6.7% in December to 6.3% in January, shows why.
Jeff Bezos is retiring, and will go down as one of the great CEO’s in tech history, in part because of how he transformed Amazon into a tech company in every respect.
Ford F-150 production hit by chip shortage | Fox Business
Ford will cut the number of shifts at the factories that produce its best-selling F-Series trucks for one week due to the global semiconductor chip shortage affecting the auto industry.
PayPal profit tops estimates as pandemic drives online spending to record levels | Reuters
PayPal Holdings Inc beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday, with a coronavirus-driven shift to online shopping and digital transactions driving record levels of payment volumes for both the quarter and the year.