New York, a City on Its Own
What a year it has been in New York City. In the latest blow, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday stunned exhausted parents and teachers...
Tag : Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (2020)
Many Small Businesses Can’t Pay the Rent. A Deal With the Landlord Is Their Only Hope.
In March, when the Boston restaurateur Garrett Harker and his partners shut down their seven restaurants after Massachusetts issued lockdown orders, Mr. Harker assumed the...
Deal Reached in N.J. for ‘Millionaires Tax’ to Address Fiscal Crisis
Gov. Philip D. Murphy campaigned on a vow to raise taxes on the rich in New Jersey. It took three years and a pandemic to...
A Cataclysm of Hunger, Disease and Illiteracy
We think of Covid-19 as killing primarily the elderly around the world, but in poor countries it is more cataclysmic than that. It is killing...
Why Unemployment Claims May Be Overcounted by Millions
Economic statistics were never designed to measure the sudden shutdown and restart of large segments of the U.S. economy. Still, if there is one question...
Struggling Hotel Owners, Some With Trump Ties, Seek Federal Bailout
Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the billionaire investor and major donor to President Trump, has run into an unexpected patch of red ink thanks to the...
The G.O.P. Plot to Sabotage 2021
Nobody knows for sure who will win in November. Joe Biden holds the advantage right now, but between the vagaries of the Electoral College and...
Climate Change, Wildfires, Life on Venus: Your Monday Evening Briefing
(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. ImageCredit…Doug Mills/The New York Times To the global scientific...
Unemployment Benefits Program Has Issues With Fraud and Math
Two weeks ago, shortly after she advertised an apartment for rent in the Bay Area, Barbara Lamb found five envelopes from the state’s unemployment office...
Joshua Bellamy, Ex-Jet, Fraudulently Took $1.2 Million in Covid-19 Aid, U.S. Says
A wide receiver who was cut from the New York Jets on Tuesday has been charged with fraudulently obtaining a $1.2 million loan from the...