Now that the federal government has begun the process of sending millions of Americans a new stimulus check for $600, scammers are out in force trying to do what they can to steal some or all of that money. The Better Business Bureau has set up a website containing information that people need to know…...
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The story of the pandemic is also a story about debt. One recent survey, conducted in October, found that more than a quarter of respondents had accumulated over $10,000 in new debts during the crisis. One in three had taken out a new credit card. An analysis from Philadelphia found a 70 percent increase from…...
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Hi! Welcome to the Insider Advertising daily for December 31. I'm Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Send me feedback or tips at ljohnson@businessinsider.com For today's newsletter, the last of the year, we're recapping the year's biggest stories. The pandemic and…...
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Partho Dasgupta, former CEO of BARC India, produced at Killa Court in connection with Television Rating Points...
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Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger called out President Donald Trump's campaign fundraiser emails on Wednesday."Where I feel really bad is just the people that are, you know, struggling during the pandemic are giving President Trump's campaign money for this recount because they believe him, said Kinzinger during an interview with CNN's New Day."And it's just a…...
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One hundred and forty-five years ago, the United States was locked in a constitutional crisis. Bloodshed and intimidation against Black voters and their white Republican allies in the South had suppressed their turnout in the 1876 presidential election. Some local Democratic officials stuffed ballot boxes to bolster Samuel Tilden’s chances against his Republican opponent, Rutherford…...
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Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources of the highest-performing links on Facebook in the United States.On one Friday in November, the list began with CNN. The eighth and ninth entries were NPR. But the seven others…...
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On Monday, with a rollout full of social media fanfare and a declaration of intent on the New York Times opinion page, the workers of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced the formation of a union. Counting somewhere around 250 Alphabet workers in the United States as initial members—the number seemed to increase throughout the day—the…...
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For 48 hours in the lead-up to Georgia’s general election, Malika Redmond, director of a grassroots voter engagement group, was working without electricity. “I laugh now,” she told me. “Hurricane Zeta ripped through Georgia.… I was like, could there be anything else? You’ve got a pandemic, of all of the things that could be in the…...
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Washington When Rachel Rintelmann closed on her Washington-area home a few years ago, something caught her eye: a paragraph in her deed had been crossed out with a quick X, written in pen.It restricted who could “use or occupy” the house, allowing “no person of any race other [than] the Caucasian race.”“I chuckled because it…...
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