As Congress fails to reach an agreement on a second stimulus check, new unemployment claims grew from 23,063 to 25,012. For the past six months, Flora M., a hospitality worker from Miami, has been making ends meet by collecting unemployment assistance and dipping into...
Republicans at the party’s National Convention claimed they “built the greatest economy in the world.” Let’s take a look at the facts. Wednesday night Vice President Mike Pence and speakers at the National Republican Convention (RNC) claimed that in 2017...
According to the first nationwide assessment of COVID-19’s economic impact on minority small businesses, only one in 10 received the funding they requested. Without governmental assistance in the next six months, almost half Black and Hispanic small-business owners in...
At this time administrators don’t know for certain the full extent of the damage to the city’s hard-hit economy. In response to the economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in hard-hit South Florida, Miami’s city government is preparing to address a projected...
Most Americans support the containment measures. Without healthy Americans, we can’t have a healthy economy. Police and the military have enforced strict lockdown rules forcing people into their homes in democracies like Italy and Spain. Most developed countries...