A new surge in COVID-19 cases is threatening to put a damper on the frail recovery of U.S. air travel. Southwest Airlines became the first major carrier to sound the alarm this week, lowering its outlook for the third quarter due to a slowdown in booki…
After a year that could hardly have gone worse for U.S. passenger airlines, the latest results of the big four U.S. carriers showed signs of recovery as travelers grew more confident returning to the skies. “Domestic leisure travel is fully recovered t…
In a virtual heist of unprecedented scale, hackers stole crypto currency worth more than 610 million US dollars from Poly Network, a platform connecting various separate blockchains to make transactions easier. Even though the culprits reportedly retur…
UK GDP had experienced a period of recovery after having suffered the biggest drop on record in Q2 2020. After firing back up again in Q3 and to a slighter extent in Q4. For the start of the year though, revised Office for National Statistics revealed …
The daily burden (and joy) of childcare is managed differently from family to family, with few solutions which could in fairness be labelled as ‘wrong’. Also on an international scale, there are stark differences between countries, as illustrated by ne…
With a record number of job openings, historically few layoffs and millions of Americans quitting their jobs voluntarily, the balance of power in the U.S. labor market appears to be shifting. As the economy recovers from its COVID slump and employers a…
While total nonfarm employment still trails its pre-pandemic level by 5.7 million jobs and unemployment remains elevated, the U.S. job market continues to show strong signs of recovery. The number of job openings, a measure of labor demand, climbed to …
The first release from the Sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been making waves simply by summarizing the brutal realities of what we know about climate change.The report titled Climate Change 2021: The Physica…
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. economy with full force in March 2020, causing stock markets and economic indicators to plummet and erasing nearly 20 million jobs in a matter of weeks, many had hoped that this crisis would go away as quickly as…
Most people will associate the digital economy with highly skilled computer engineers and marketing professionals, but the foot soldiers of the trade are those low-level employees who drive Ubers and deliver food. Their working conditions are often cal…