![Penalty for faulty fire-extinguishers signals stiffer consumer-safety rules in Biden era]()
by Alicia Diaz | Jan 12, 2021 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON—The first major U.S. consumer-safety penalty in almost three years against a maker of popular fire extinguishers could be a preview of the tougher oversight companies will face under a more aggressive Biden administration. North Carolina-based Kidde was...
by LaTesha Harris | Aug 20, 2020 | Business, Featured
Faith Ellis is only farming six of the 85 acres on her New Boston, Texas farm – one of eight Black-owned operations left in Bowie County – because of the coronavirus pandemic. Ellis, a disabled farmer, and her husband can’t afford workers to cross-fence, prepare soil,...
by Xurui Tan | Aug 11, 2020 | Business, Featured
Much more needs to be done to protect consumers in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, a representative of a New York-based advocacy group says. “People start to make tough decisions and that makes them more vulnerable to unfair practices and then encourages the...
by Amy Sokolow | Jul 16, 2020 | Business, Featured
The states and federal government have fallen behind in updating decades-old technology and need to upgrade quickly to better serve the public, experts say, a point underscored by reports that millions of jobless Americans still haven’t received unemployment checks....
by Henry Ren | Jul 15, 2020 | Business, Featured
More U.S. tech startups’ operations are likely to expand to Canada as the Trump administration’s recent restrictions on H-1B visas compound the difficulty of hiring skilled engineers, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs say. In late June, the administration barred...
![Florida small businesses struggle as many get denied COVID-19 loans]()
by Nicole Girten | Jul 1, 2020 | Business
Democrats and Republicans reached a rare consensus Wednesday: The federal government is moving too slowly in providing loans to companies struggling with the pandemic. A federal loan program for small businesses has denied 48 percent of applicants, leaving 2.5 million...
