by Alicia Diaz | Mar 4, 2021 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Fraud risks and privacy concerns have intensified as Americans increasingly have relied on online shopping during the pandemic. The Biden administration dedicated this year’s National Consumer Protection Week, which began Monday, to addressing threats...
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by Jay Silver | Feb 2, 2021 | Business, Coronavirus, Featured
WASHINGTON — Local performing art venues are relieved to know help is on the way after Congress incorporated a $15 billion grant program for art and entertainment venues struggling financially from the pandemic into the most recent COVID-19 relief package....
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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....
