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☆ Kamala Harris Will Make History. So Will Her ‘Big, Blended’ Family.
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-17 | by ( Jessica Bennett | ) www.nytimes.com + 1.00 time to read: +2 min

“It’s striking,” said Ralph Richard Banks, a law professor at Stanford who has written about race, gender and family patterns. Ms. Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, was raised with both Christian and Hindu practices, while her husband, who is white, grew up attending Jewish summer camp. (At their wedding, Ms. Harris took part in the Jewish ritual of smashing a glass.) Ms. Harris did not have children. She has often said that being “Momala” to her stepchildren is the role “that means the most” to her.

Persons: ”, Ralph Richard Banks, Harris, Emhoff, Banks, “, it’s, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, Kamala, Maya, Meena Organizations: Stanford, Census, Democratic National Convention Locations: California

Will Install a Trump Loyalist as Its General Counsel Vice President-elect Kamala Harris plans to resign from her Senate seat on Monday. The Justice Department, under pressure from Mr. Trump, has sued Mr. Bolton to recoup his profits from book. Representative Jamie Raskin, center, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a meeting of House impeachment managers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. He also claimed, without further explanation, that Mr. Trump was “trying to heal the nation.” But even as Mr. Graham lobbied his Republican colleagues to vote against convicting Mr. Trump and offered a stream of flattery about the president’s success in office, he rejected the suggestion that Mr. Trump should pardon any members of the mob before leaving office. Without specifically mentioning Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drew an implicit contrast with his administration’s dismissive attitude toward expert opinion.

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☆ Honeywell teams with North Carolina businesses to help accelerate Covid vaccine rollout
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Will Feuer | ) www.cnbc.com sentiment -0.99 time to read: +2 min

Charlotte, North Carolina-based Honeywell announced Thursday that it's partnered with a consortium of local businesses to help accelerate the state's Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Bank of America Stadium, which is home to the Carolina Panthers, and the Charlotte Motor Speedway will be among the vaccination sites, the group said. He added that the group has the support of North Carolina Gov. In North Carolina, more than 268,000 doses have been administered, according to the CDC. Adamczyk said Thursday he hopes to get the mass vaccination sites in North Carolina up and running to speed up the rollout and to provide a model for other states on how businesses can get involved with the vaccination effort.

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ET Live Updates: House Set to Impeach Trump, After Pence Rejects Call to Strip His Powers Lawmakers said they would move to impeach the president on Wednesday, after formally calling on Vice President Mike Pence to use the 25th Amendment. In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi before the House vote on Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence rejected the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment. Credit... Nicole Craine for The New York Times The House on Tuesday night formally called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and strip President Trump of his powers. With Democrats controlling the House, Mr. Trump is likely to become the first American president to be impeached twice. Other sites such as Snapchat, Reddit and Twitch also curtailed Mr. Trump.

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“He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.” “These facts require immediate actions by President Trump,” he continued. A few Republicans defended him, but most others simply argued that a rush to impeach Mr. Trump without a hearing or an investigation raised constitutional questions. With Democrats controlling the House, Mr. Trump is expected to become the first American president to be impeached twice. Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington sent a letter to Mr. Trump on Sunday asking for an emergency declaration to obtain additional funding for inauguration security. On Tuesday, a federal inspector general questioned an order to deliver the estimates before Mr. Trump leaves office, after whistle-blowers warned that the rush would imperil their accuracy.

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☆ Several major factors affect Covid-19 spread among minority and lower-income communities
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-12 | by ( Megan Leonhardt | ) www.cnbc.com + 0.00 time to read: +4 min

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that within the 77% of Covid-19 deaths where race was reported, Black Americans made up about 16.4%. In other words, these three factors contribute in big ways to the spread of Covid-19 among these groups of Americans. Additionally, the minority and income-based gaps are not completely wiped out when those three factors are taken into account. "There is an unexplained portion of Covid-19 incidence that remains associated with both income and race," the study's authors write. For example, lawmakers could consider expanding health insurance options since 43.4% of U.S. adults ages 19 to 64 were inadequately insured during the first half of 2020, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

Persons: isn't, Maxim Pinkovskiy, Rajashri, Pinkovskiy Organizations: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, White, Disease Control, Prevention, Census, Commonwealth Fund Locations: U.S, Covid

☆ Walmart is quietly building a startup that wants to help shoppers make healthier choices
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-12 | by ( Blake Dodge | Áine Cain | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +6 min

Walmart is building a new health venture through its incubation arm Store No.8, Business Insider has learned. The venture, which doesn't have a name yet, will aim to help shoppers make healthier choices based on their own shopping data. It builds on Walmart's healthcare business, which includes clinics and pharmacies. Walmart is building a new health venture through its incubation arm Store No. The job posting also said that the startup, described as a "stealth health data analytics initiative," will work closely with the company's Health & Wellness division, which encompasses clinics and pharmacies.

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☆ Warnock and Ossoff won historic Senate seats because of rapidly shifting demographics in key Georgia counties and clear promises of $2,000 stimulus checks
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-12 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +11 min

Warnock and Ossoff ran strongly in the core Atlanta metropolitan area, solidifying Democratic suburban gains in former GOP bastions like Cobb and Henry counties. In 2010, Democratic voters nominated former Gov. Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who were running for the US Senate against GOP Sens. Last week, Warnock and Ossoff won their races, handing control of the US Senate to the Democratic Party. However, Biden said that he would seek more aid as president, and both Warnock and Ossoff were fully onboard with the proposal.

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☆ Biden picks Rhode Island governor for Commerce, Boston mayor for Labor: sources
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( Andrea Shalal | David Lawder | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +5 min

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo as his Commerce Department secretary and former union official and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Labor secretary, people familiar with the choices told Reuters on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo answers a phone call during the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., July 15, 2017. Biden also will nominate Isabel Guzman, a California state economic development official and small business advocate, to lead the Small Business Administration (SBA), a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Guzman currently heads California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate and helped coordinate the state’s economic recovery response amid the COVID-19 crisis. A former senior SBA official during the Obama administration and small business entrepreneur, Guzman learned about entrepreneurship while working in her father’s chain of veterinary hospitals.

Persons: Joe Biden, Gina Raimondo, Marty Walsh, Brian Snyder, ”, Biden, Isabel Guzman, Raimondo’s, Rhode Island’s, Raimondo, Christine Bliss, Donald Trump’s “, Walsh, “ Walsh, Richard Trumka, “, ” Marc Perrone, Guzman, Obama Organizations: WASHINGTON, Rhode, Commerce Department, Boston, Labor, National Governors Association, REUTERS, Small Business Administration, Reuters, SBA, CNN, Providence Journal, Harvard, Yale, Coalition of Services Industries, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, U.S . Patent, . Census, Republican, Huawei, ’ Union, Boston Metropolitan, Building, Union, AFL, White, United Food, Commercial Workers Union, Small Locations: Rhode, Providence , Rhode Island, U.S, California, Rhode Island, Boston, Massachusetts, COVID, America

☆ Biden to nominate Rhode Island governor for Commerce, Boston mayor for Labor
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( Andrea Shalal | David Lawder | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +5 min

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo as his Commerce Department secretary and former union official and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Labor secretary, his transition team said late on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo answers a phone call during the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., July 15, 2017. Walsh, who served from 1997 to 2014 in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, was elected Boston mayor in 2013. Guzman currently heads California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate and helped coordinate the state’s economic recovery response amid the COVID-19 crisis. A former senior SBA official during the Obama administration and small business entrepreneur, Guzman learned about entrepreneurship while working in her father’s chain of veterinary hospitals.

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☆ Biden picks Rhode Island governor to head Commerce, Boston mayor for Labor: sources
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -0.82 time to read: +1 min

Slideshow ( 2 images )WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden will choose Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo as his Commerce Department secretary and Boston mayor and former union official Marty Walsh as his Labor secretary, people familiar with the choices told Reuters on Thursday. The two Democrats will head sprawling agencies that will shape Biden’s agenda on climate change, technology, investment and workforce policies and labor rules. She is a native of Rhode Island and its first woman governor. Biden also will choose Isabel Guzman, a California state economic development official and small business advocate, to lead the Small Business Administration, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Guzman served as deputy chief of staff at the SBA for nearly three years during the Obama administration, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Persons: Joe Biden, Gina Raimondo, Marty Walsh, Raimondo, Biden, Isabel Guzman, Guzman, Obama Organizations: Rhode, Commerce Department, Boston, Labor, CNN, Providence Journal, Harvard, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, U.S . Patent, . Census Bureau, Small Business Administration, Reuters, SBA Locations: WASHINGTON, Rhode Island, California

☆ Philadelphia mayor blasts double standard in policing Black and White protesters
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( Tyler Clifford | ) www.cnbc.com + 0.00 time to read: +5 min

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, reacting to the violence on Capitol Hill Wednesday, drew a stark contrast between how government and police respond to demonstrations held by Black protesters and White protesters. Those demonstrations against police brutality often included standoffs with riot police, the presence of U.S. National Guard members and counter-protesters. In one incident in June, armed members of the D.C. National Guard wearing camouflage were staged at the Lincoln Memorial during a peaceful protest against police brutality. Mike Theiler | ReutersRioters had already occupied the Capitol building, delaying the electoral count for hours, before D.C. National Guard was sent to help secure the campus. US President Donald Trumps supporters gather outside the Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021.

Persons: Jim Kenney, Kenney, George Floyd, Win McNamee, MSNBC's Joy Reid, Reid, Donald Trump, Mike Theiler, Mike Pence, Trump, Joe Biden, Biden, Donald, Tayfun Organizations: Philadelphia, Capitol, Black, Trump, D.C, U.S . National Guard, National Guard, Lincoln, John's, Lincoln Memorial, Washington , D.C, Getty, Capitol police, U.S, Reuters, . Census, Washington D.C, Anadolu Agency Locations: Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Washington, U.S, Washington ,, Ferguson , Missouri, Baltimore, United States

☆ Fact check: ‘133 million registered voters’ argument uses flawed logic
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-01 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +5 min

Posts circulating on social media allege that “only 133 million registered voters voted” to falsely claim that the number of votes cast for Joe Biden is not mathematically possible. The nationwide voter turnout is usually calculated using the eligible-voting population as a denominator, not the number of registered voters. While there is no available figure yet for nationwide registered voters for 2020, Reuters calculations found there were an estimated 206,557,583 registered voters as of the publication of this article. I averaged it out at 62.5% which means just over 133,500,000 registered voters voted. 74,000,000 Trump + 81,000,000 Biden =155,000,000”WRONG NUMBERReuters could not find a source for the alleged number of registered voters mentioned (213,799,485), nor a nation-wide number of registered voters for 2020.

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☆ U.S. Census Bureau to miss year-end deadline for first set of 2020 numbers
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-31 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -1.00 time to read: +1 min

FILE PHOTO: Census signage is seen at an event in Queens, New York City, U.S., February 22, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly(Reuters) - The U.S. Census Bureau will miss a year-end deadline to produce the population count used to divide seats in Congress between the states, it said on Wednesday. "We continue to process the data collected and plan to deliver a complete and accurate state population count for apportionment in early 2021, as close to the statutory deadline as possible", the Census Bureau said in a statement bit.ly/380TCTg. NPR reported earlier that the bureau was still trying to fix irregularities uncovered in this year’s census records and that it was going to miss the Thursday deadline for numbers that determine representation in Congress and the Electoral College for the next decade. U.S. census experts and lawyers had said the action was legally dubious and not easily executed in practice.

Persons: Andrew Kelly, Donald Trump, Trump Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Census, NPR, Electoral College, U.S Locations: Queens , New York City, U.S, United States

Using data from the Census Bureau, we found the small town in each state with the highest share of households paying an affordable share of their incomes on housing. During the coronavirus pandemic this year, some people moved or temporarily relocated out of their homes, including those in the city. Using the newly released data from the Census Bureau's 2015-2019 American Community Survey, we found the small town in each state with the highest share of households paying affordable housing costs. Here's the most affordable small town in every state, based on the share of households paying less than 30% of their income on housing. Population estimates noted for some of the places are also from the most recent five-year American Community Survey.

Organizations: Census, Survey, Census Bureau, American

☆ An interactive CDC map shows how the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is going in your state — and how far the US lags behind its goal
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-31 | by ( Susie Neilson | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +4 min

The map shows how many vaccine doses each state has been allocated and how many shots each has administered so far. Previously, the website tracked only two broad measurements of US COVID-19 vaccination efforts: doses distributed and doses administered in total nationwide. Now, the tracker lists the following details for each state: total doses distributed, total doses distributed per 100,000 people, and the number of people who have received their first dose. Several states, including South Dakota and Connecticut, have distributed over 40% of the vaccines they've been allocated so far. And on top of all that, some states, including Oregon, Iowa, and Maryland, have received fewer doses than they anticipated.

Persons: they're, they'll, Joe Biden, Biden, Donald Trump, Biden's Organizations: CDC, Disease Control, Trump, COVID, Reuters, Census Bureau, Twitter Locations: South Dakota, Connecticut, California, Ohio, Kansas, Seattle, Oregon , Iowa, Maryland, Wilmington , Delaware

☆ Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan to exclude people in the country illegally from the count
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com + 0.00 time to read: +6 min

"The delay suggests that the census bureau needs more time to ensure the accuracy of census numbers for all states," said Terri Ann Lowenthal, a former congressional staffer who specializes in census issues. The Commerce Department oversees the Census Bureau, which conducts the once-a-decade headcount of every U.S. resident. "For the Census Bureau, goals No. The Census Bureau hasn't publicly revealed how it plans to determine who is in the country illegally since the Supreme Court last year prohibited a citizenship question from being added to the census questionnaire. The Office of Inspector General said the Census Bureau failed to complete 355,000 re-interviews of households to verify that their information was accurate.

Persons: Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Donald Trump's, aren't, Joe Biden, Biden, Terri Ann Lowenthal, Kenneth Prewitt, Bill Clinton's, Trump, didn't, Steven Dillingham, General, Tim Olson, Margo Anderson, Anderson Organizations: Bureau, Associated Press, Commerce Department, Census Bureau, Census, Bureau hasn't, Democratic, Republican, University of Wisconsin - Locations: Mar, Washington , DC, U.S, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

☆ Fact check: Clarifying the comparison between popular vote and counties won in the 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +6 min

Given counties vary widely in population size, so does the number of votes cast per county. On Dec. 8, the think tank updated the report to say Biden had won 509 counties and Trump 2,547 counties, according to “unofficial results from 99% of counties”. HIGHEST TURNOUTIn the 2020 election, more votes were cast both for Biden and Trump than for previous candidates. In fact, U.S. election security officials have said the election was “the most secure in American history” ( here , here ). It is misleading to correlate the number of votes cast with the number of counties won, as counties vary widely in size and a state’s Electoral College votes are generally cast for the popular vote winner in their state.

Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Charlie Kirk, “ Barack Obama, —, It’s, Biden, Obama, Rogers, Smith, “ Biden, Gregory Huber, ” Huber, Trump, Michael McDonald, Read Organizations: Reuters, Democrat, Biden, Trump, Brookings Institute, Science, University of Pennsylvania, U.S . Census, Republican, Democratic, Yale University, Electoral, Electors, Edison Research, U.S, Election, University of Florida Locations: States, Los Angeles , New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles County, Cook County , Illinois, Chicago, Harris County , Texas, Houston, U.S, Nebraska, Maine, United States

☆ ‘There Was a Piece Missing—We Were All White’: One Bank Targets Racial Inequity
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( Ruth Simon | Photographs Jared Charney For The Wall Street Journal | Jared Charney For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com + 0.00 time to read: +21 min

Carlos Matos helped a customer at an Eastern Bank branch in Dedham, Mass., this month. Among all U.S. companies with 100 or more employees, Black people hold 3% of executive or senior-level roles, according to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data. Mr. Rivers, 56, grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Stoughton, Mass., and started his banking career as a teller. Ms. Phillips invited Mr. Rivers to one of her multicultural networking events; he showed up, then came back for others. “I am the only CEO there, by a long shot, in a bunch of cases,” said Mr. Rivers.

Persons: George Floyd’s, ”, Bob Rivers, “, Floyd’s, ’, Carlos Matos, haven’t, Kyle Kim, Wendell Knox, Stanley Lukowski, Mr, Lukowski, Knox, “ Wendell, Richard Holbrook, Holbrook, Quincy Miller, Robert F, Kennedy, Eastern, Rivers, Colette Phillips, Phillips, Deborah Jackson, Jackson, Vanessa Calderón, Paul Alexander, Greg Shell, Miller, Jim Rooney, Rooney, Kathy Henry, Eastern’s, lumping, Henry, Tiliah Miles, Floyd, ” “, Tanisha Sullivan, Martin Luther King Jr, Bob, “ It’s, Shell, Denasia Dorsey, ” Kellie Amato, Ms, Miles, Matos, White, Dow Jones, — Paul Overberg, Ruth Simon, ruth.simon Organizations: Eastern Bankshares Inc, Irish Catholic, Companies, Eastern, Eastern Bank, Nasdaq Inc, Equilar Inc, Employment, Merck, IBM, OneTen, Black Americans, Abt Associates Inc, Bank, Wainwright Bank, Trust Co, Mr, Irish, Stoughton , Mass, Cambridge College ., Bain Capital, T Bank, Census Bureau, Greater, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, NAACP Boston Branch, Foundation for Business Equity, American, Wall Street Locations: Boston, U.S, Dedham, Mass, Salem, Massachusetts , New Hampshire, Rhode, Boston’s, Cambridge, Eastern, “, Rivers, Stoughton ,, Omaha, Massachusetts, Latina, Greater Boston, Lawrence, Roxbury, American American, Alaska, State

☆ Gold rises as dollar softens; U.S. Senate vote on increased aid eyed
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com sentiment -0.91 time to read: +2 min

Gold prices rose on Tuesday as the dollar eased, while investors kept a close watch on a U.S. Senate vote on increased pandemic aid checks to individuals. Spot gold rose 0.5% to $1,880.06 per ounce by 0108 GMT, after closing slightly lower in the last session. U.S. gold futures were up 0.1% to $1,882.20. Holdings in SPDR's Gold Trust, the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, rose 0.2% to 1,169.86 tonnes on Monday from 1,167.53 tonnes on Thursday. China's net gold imports via Hong Kong rebounded about 82% in November after a plunge in October, Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department data showed on Monday.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Gold Organizations: U.S, Democratic, House, Republican, Pfizer, European Union, U.S . Commodity Futures Trading Commission, . Holdings, Trust, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Census, Statistics Department Locations: Bangkok, Thailand, Hong, Hong Kong

☆ Inside PayPal's record-breaking 2020 — and its plans to transform capitalism
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( Shannen Balogh | Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +21 min

Schulman is transforming what it means to be a business, calling on other companies to investigate and care about their employees' financial wellness. Before PayPal's financial-wellness initiative, Mark Parker was putting bills on credit, despite having a full-time job at the company. C-suite leaders told Insider the key to PayPal's recent success boils down, in large part, to the company's investment in its employees. The ROI of PayPal's investment in its employees was made clear in a year of record growthThe payoff from PayPal's investment in employees was evident in 2020, a year of massive growth for the payments company. Jessica Teel/Courtesy of PayPalEmboldened by the success of PayPal's financial-wellness program, Schulman is finding his voice as a leader calling for a change to capitalism.

Persons: PayPal's, Dan Schulman, Schulman, Mark Parker, he'd, Parker, Parker's, Long, jotted, George Floyd, It's, who's, Jessica Teel, Franz Paasche, Schulman greenlighted, John Rainey, Rainey, —, Peggy Alford, Alford, Nicholas Bloom, Henry Ford, There's, Bloom, Joe Stiglitz's, Michael Luca, Lauren Aydinliyim, PayPal Rainey, Richard Branson, Paul Tudor Jones, Alison, " Schulman Organizations: PayPal, eBay, Walmart, University of Chicago, University of Notre, Virgin Mobile, New York Times, American Express, NPR, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, Zicklin School of Business, CUNY Baruch College, Census Bureau, Virgin Group, JPMorgan, Mastercard, Business, Corporation, Financial Health Network, Good Jobs Institute, Financial Wellness Initiative, Just Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Omaha, COVID, New York City, New York

☆ One more push for $2,000 stimulus checks
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( Charles Riley | Cnn Business | ) edition.cnn.com + 0.00 time to read: +6 min

The House of Representatives has passed a measure to increase the stimulus checks for people under a certain income level to $2,000. Stimulus facts: How do we know the way stimulus checks might be spent? Meanwhile, 15.7% used their stimulus check to pay off debt and 14.1% planned to mostly save it. The Boeing 737 Max is backThe Boeing 737 Max is set to carry US passengers for the first time in nearly two years on Tuesday, when American will use the jet on a round-trip route from Miami to New York. Most other countries' aviation authorities have yet to approve the use of the 737 Max.

Persons: Donald Trump, There's, Trump, Kevin Brady, Brady, Jerome Powell, Powell, Max, Ipsos, Aeromexico, India We've, Tesla, Nitin Gadkari Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, Senate, Republican, Twitter, Federal, Congress, The, US Census Bureau, Census, Boeing, US Federal Aviation Administration, Reuters, New York's LaGuardia, GOL, Elon, US Energy Information Administration Locations: London, Texas, United States, Miami, New York, Mexico City, Cancun, India

☆ 'Hellish': Covid deaths have struck younger Latinos. Here's the economic, social fallout.
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-28 | by ( Suzanne Gamboa | Suzanne Gamboa Is A National Reporter For Nbc Latino | ) www.nbcnews.com + 0.00 time to read: +10 min

SAN ANTONIO — Ray Cisneros never wanted to be a husband or a dad, but three years ago he fell in love, married and became a stepfather. Instead, 2020 is the year Covid-19 killed Ray. Tina Cisneros, white shirt, and Ciera Limon, striped dress, are Ray's siblings. Tina Cisneros, 32, stands with her brother Ray Cisneros, who was 35 and had recently married and become stepfather to his wife's children. Ray Cisneros always supported his sister Tina's plans to go to law school, which she still wants to do.

Persons: Ray Cisneros, Ray, Tina, coronavirus, Tina Cisneros, Raymond Cisneros, Covid, Matilda, Sam, Esmerie, Ciera Limon, Cisneros, Gabriel Sanchez, Rogelio Sáenz, Sáenz, Ray's, Matilda Cisneros, it's, Katia Paz, Goldfarb, Paz, Adriana Rocha Garcia, Garcia, Sanchez Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, University of New Mexico Center for Social, Johns Hopkins University, University of Texas, Blacks, Urban Institute, Montclair State University, Census, San Antonio City, Pew Research Center, University of New, Facebook, Twitter Locations: Covid, New Mexico, San Antonio, Texas, New Jersey, Connecticut , New Jersey, New York, Paz, University of New Mexico, America

☆ The great migration of 2020: People from New York and California moved in droves this year — here are the states that benefited from the mass exodus, from Idaho to Texas
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-24 | by ( Taylor Borden | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +4 min

Idaho — plus other western and southern states — saw the country's largest increases in population, while New York and California recorded the largest decreases. One expert, William Frey at the Brookings Institution, estimates that the official head count from the 2020 census will have political implications. States in the Northeast and Midwest saw slight declines in population, while the South and West saw slight upticks. Frey's analysis also found that California stands to lose a House seat for the first time in the state's history. The data released by the US Census Bureau and analyzed by Frey represents population estimates made independently of the 2020 census.

Persons: —, William Frey, demographer William Frey, Frey, it's Organizations: Census, Brookings Institution, US Census Bureau, Brookings, Washington, Elon, Associated Press Locations: Idaho, New York, California, Texas, Florida, Brookings Institution's, DC, Northeast, Midwest, West, . Idaho, Arizona , Nevada , Utah, New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Alabama , Illinois , Michigan, Minnesota , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Arizona , Colorado , Montana , North Carolina, Oregon

☆ So many people left New York during the pandemic that the state may lose a House seat
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-23 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +2 min

It is biggest population drop of any state this year. New York is now likely to lose a House seat because of its population loss, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution on Tuesday. The coronavirus pandemic appears to have had a drastic impact on New York's population, and it could impact the state's political influence in future elections. The second biggest year-to-year population drop for the state this decade was between 2018 and 2019, when more than 80,000 people left the state. In addition to New York, Brookings expects nine other states to lose a House seat during the 2020 reapportionment.

Organizations: Census Bureau, Brookings Institution, Brookings, The New York Times Locations: York, New York, Florida, Brookings, , New York, The, Texas, Arizona, Montana, Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon, Alabama, California , Illinois , Michigan, Minnesota , Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Rhode Island

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