by Alicia Diaz | Nov 2, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
Iesha Malone wants her community to feel like home. So she has set out to create Rose Café, a bookstore and coffee shop to be stocked with books that elevate Black voices and empower the residents of her neighborhood in the southside of Chicago. “I can only be...
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by Augusta Saraiva | Oct 27, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
While the global economy is expected to shrink by 4.4 percent this year, Latin American and Caribbean economies are likely to experience a GDP contraction nearly twice as high as that, according to the Western Hemisphere Economic Outlook report released last Thursday...
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by Nicholas Portuondo | Oct 7, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON- Leaders of several regional Federal Reserve banks were challenged Wednesday to do more to help low-income and minority communities survive the COVID-19 recession, especially considering the recent breakdown of congressional financial relief talks. “The...
by Hangyun Kim | Oct 7, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – An increase in fiscal spending is necessary to respond to COVID-19, a panel of practitioners and experts from Japan, Germany, and the United States agreed at Wednesday’s online discussion hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The...
by Hangyun Kim | Oct 1, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation unanimously voted on Thursday to compel the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter to appear before the committee amid concerns over the tech giants’ monopolistic powers and legal immunity. The...
by Hangyun Kim | Sep 24, 2020 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON – The new head of the United States Agency for Global Media failed to appear before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday, ignoring a subpoena the committee issued last week ordering him to testify amid questions over editorial independence at...
