The sight of Russian crewmen being ushered into managed isolation last year highlighted just how reliant the fishing industry has become on foreign labour. It seems that Covid-19 has brought to the surface deficiencies in the labour force behind an industry that was worth $2 billion in exports last year. Those Russian and Ukrainian seaman were bound for one of […]

‘While most companies were bullish before the second wave of double-digit sales growth in FY22, that may not be the case now.’ Companies manufacturing automotive, durables, and fast-moving consumer goods remain largely cautious about their sales growth outlook for FY22. The reason for this tempering of their forecasts revolves around concern about a third COVID-19 wave, weak consumer sentiment, and […]

The Internal Revenue Service created a tool to ensure families that haven’t filed a 2020 tax return get the child tax credit. Qualifying families will get advanced payments beginning July 15, which will continue for the next six months and will be half of the total child tax credit they will get. The other half of the tax credit can be claimed […]

New York (CNN)MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, and her husband Dan Jewett, donated $2.74 billion to organizations that focus on the arts and combating racial discrimination. The settlement from Scott’s 2019 divorce from her previous husband, Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos, made her one of the richest people in the world. She and Bezos were […]

As deep space exploration increasingly becomes a new frontier for the private sector, a California-based firm announced Tuesday it had been awarded contracts to design two spacecraft that will go to Mars as part of a NASA mission. Long Beach-based Rocket Lab, which announced in April it intends to go public via a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, said Tuesday that […]

Many states have been slow to give out the billions of dollars in rental assistance allocated by Congress. Housing advocates blame unnecessarily complex paperwork and arduous requirements for the delays. All that could soon result in a wave of evictions. For months, renter Sabrina Floyd waited to hear if she and her family were approved for help from the Clark […]

In 2019 alone, there were more than 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This marks the sixth consecutive year of record-breaking cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. The CDC’s data looked at states with the highest cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and congenital syphilis. The following numbers […]

The new chairwoman of Lordstown Motors, Angela Strand, says the embattled company remains on track to begin limited production of its Endurance electric pickups in late-September. The comments come a day after Lordstown's chairman and CEO Steve Burns and CFO Julio Rodriguez resigned from the company. Strand called it a "new day" at Lordstown Motors. Embattled electric truck company Lordstown […]