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Elections 2020

In first presidential debate, what will we hear about the economy?

by Justin Ho
Sep 28, 2020
Additional coronavirus aid for state and local governments is a likely point of contention.
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NY Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017

by Associated Press
Sep 27, 2020
IRS figures indicate that the average tax filer paid roughly $12,200 in 2017, about 16 times more than what the president paid.
Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, The New York Times reported Sunday.
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Federal rule on gig workers proposed, narrowing definition of employee

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Sep 25, 2020
When your work is a gig instead of a job, you have fewer protections and benefits.
Air travelers wait in the ride-hailing lot at Los Angeles International Airport in August.
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COVID-19

Fake crowds are becoming ubiquitous and a bit more realistic

by Andy Uhler
Sep 25, 2020
Faux fan sounds can cue viewers to pay attention when they're not completely focused on the game.
Cardboard cutouts of fans at a Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants game in July.
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California hits the brakes on gas-powered cars

by Jasmine Garsd
Sep 25, 2020
Insiders say the ban just accelerates the inevitable.
Even with the ban on new sales of gas-powered cars, it will take awhile to get them off the road.
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China makes audacious promise of aiming for carbon neutrality by 2060

by Jennifer Pak
Sep 25, 2020
How will the world's most populous country and its worst polluter get there?
Employees work on a floating solar power plant in Huainan, a former coal-mining region, in China's eastern Anhui province in 2017.
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COVID & Unemployment

Many are still waiting for unemployment, months later

by Samantha Fields
Sep 25, 2020
For many of those who have now gone months without a paycheck or unemployment, things are dire.
Hundreds of people waited in long lines in Kentucky in June for help with their unemployment claims, months after they had initially tried to file.
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This lobster season, they expected hell, but got high water

by Lukas Southard
Sep 25, 2020
While lobster fishermen are surviving the pandemic summer thanks to direct sales and better than expected pricing, wholesalers and dealers are struggling.
The crew of a lobster boat check their traps in the Gulf of Maine in Deer Isle, Maine.
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COVID-19

New home sales in August hit highest level since before Great Recession

by David Brancaccio , Candace Manriquez Wrenn , Erika Soderstrom and Alex Schroeder
Sep 25, 2020
Some of what we're seeing might be making up for a spring in which people were stuck at home and not buying.
Sales of new single-family homes rose 4.8% in August and surpassed an annual rate of 1 million for the first time in 14 years.
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Elections 2020

Banks weigh in on what the 2020 presidential election might do to the stock market

by Kristin Schwab
Sep 25, 2020
Economists often look to previous elections to model upcoming ones, but 2020 continues to break the mold.
Goldman Sachs economists said in a note Thursday that worries are overblown — that there will be a victor on election night and in turn the markets will stay steady.
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