Since March 2020, the hotel industry has suffered immensely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of hotel employees were let go or furloughed.
The following is an excerpt from a Beat Basics Update by Adam DeRose. You can read the entire update to the ebook here. For experts, economic research and policy
The past few years have seen the incredible growth of companies like Uber and Lyft. The foundation of these companies are gig workers. The gig
Country music singer Dolly Parton will have to update her 1980 hit song, “9 to 5,” to “6 to 9” in 2020 for working women.
There were a lot of bad things about Sumner Redstone and how he ran a business. He could be utterly ruthless. And yet, in the
Following multi-sector labor strikes, national protests for better wages and working conditions, the rise of both President Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders and their
Current retirement security is elusive for many. Half of all seniors had average savings of $83,500, according to a 2019 report from the Kaiser Family
In October 2019, when the Federal Reserve Board conducted its seventh annual Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), most adults said they were in
Early in June 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the jobs numbers for May. The media rejoiced as though it were a brisk
The stock market is up! Oh, sorry, down! Ah, wait, up after all! Trying to follow and explain what stocks are doing can be a
With millions of Americans out of work and anxieties running high, the National Consumers League warns that a variety of scams could proliferate during the
The U.S. economy lost over 20 million jobs in April, reports the Labor Department. While millions of Americans have experienced layoffs in the past two
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