It’s been five years since we announced a $70,000 minimum wage at our company, Gravity Payments. Since then, our revenue has since tripled and our headcount and customer base have doubled. Meanwhile, our employees have made major improvements to their lives, such as buying houses, starting families, saving for retirement, and eliminating debt. Our celebrations […]
Much of the country is likely to see some social distancing restrictions ease by late May or early June, a top public health expert told Yahoo News on Friday. Kavita Patel, a Yahoo News medical contributor and nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, heavily hedged her prediction in a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” […]
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican, led a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to the White House late Wednesday seeking a more comprehensive explanation of President Donald Trump’s firing last week of the inspector-general of the intelligence community. Michael Atkinson, the inspector-general, was instrumental in Trump’s impeachment late last year, having forwarded […]
Big data can come from small places. Iceland’s isolated location and sparse population mean that some vital information about the novel coronavirus is coming out of the island nation — especially considering that it’s already tested 10% of its population, which is more than any other country, according to USA Today. And the scariest finding: […]
The coronavirus crisis is taking its toll even on America’s most exclusive retirement community: tony, and generally conservative, Palm Beach, Fla. But everything is relative. “It feels like we are on a forced vacation,” octogenarian Bobbi Levin was quoted as having told Kaiser Health News. “I do crossword puzzles and catch up with Netflix NFLX, […]
As New York City grapples with the magnitude of the coronavirus death toll, stories are emerging of full hospital morgues and backup refrigeration trucks as funeral directors and cemetery workers cope with at least double their normal workload. The number of fatalities in the city reached 5,065 on Friday morning, with 1,443 of them in […]
The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t hit its peak yet, but it’s already cost a record number of Americans their jobs, with 16.8 million people filing unemployment claims in the last month. Many stared down the first of the month with a scary question on their minds: How will I pay my bills? Unfortunately, many households were […]
Kelsey Pierce, a musician and songwriter in New York City, had always wanted to foster a dog with her roommate, Allyson Backus, but because of their busy schedules it was never a real possibility. Since all of New York is currently on a stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus pandemic, the pair were finally able […]
WASHINGTON — Reprising the skeptical tone he has applied to the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, President Trump accused the World Health Organization of helping China conceal the number of its citizens that have been infected by the coronavirus. “I do believe they knew,” the president said at Friday’s briefing of the […]
China this week officially reopened Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected, claiming that new infections were in the single digits. Some have hailed the seeming success of China’s draconian lockdown as a model for other countries. In recent days, however, everyone from the CIA to Chinese investigative journalists has accused Beijing […]