NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with reporter Victoria Walker of The Points Guy about a group of major airlines dropping change fees for domestic flights to coax back customers.
Some employees will soon see a boost in take-home pay. The Trump administration has given employers the option to stop collecting payroll taxes. But workers may have to repay the money next year.
The lawsuit says Black franchisees were steered toward neighborhoods where sales are lower while costs are higher. The franchisees ended up with less money and faced harsher scrutiny, it says.
New York City was struck early by the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of people fled and many thousands of small businesses closed. The number of cases is down sharply but the economy is struggling.
United's CEO says the change was a top request from customers. Delta and American followed suit after United's announcement. Airlines are trying to coax wary customers to return amid the pandemic.
"This year, we are facing an extraordinary situation," Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a conference last week before GDP figures were released. "We are facing an act of God."
Fourteen Voice of America journalists accused USAGM CEO Michael Pack of imperiling reporters. Pack recently said of VOA, "It's a great place to put a foreign spy."
Starting with a special law after the Civil War, the U.S. Postal Service has provided a path to the middle class for generations of African Americans. Some worry a privatization push threatens that.
Coffee has remained widely available on supermarket shelves even though COVID-19 has been particularly bad in some of the world's largest coffee-growing nations.