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JPMorgan Sees Biden’s Stimulus Cutting Unemployment to Less Than 5% by Year End
JPMorgan Sees Biden’s Stimulus Cutting Unemployment to Less Than 5% by Year End

JPMorgan Sees Biden’s Stimulus Cutting Unemployment to Less Than 5% by Year End

by Juliana Kaplan In December 2020, the unemployment rate was 6.7%. December also saw a surprise decline of 140,000 jobs on nonfarm payrolls, with 10 million Americans still unemployed. That unemployment rate is still just a percentage of the pandemic's peak of 14.7%. In her [...]

January 19, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Business Insider, COVID-19, Pandemic, Recession, Unemployment|

Will Biden’s Stimulus Package Help Reverse the ‘Shecession’?
Will Biden’s Stimulus Package Help Reverse the ‘Shecession’?

Will Biden’s Stimulus Package Help Reverse the ‘Shecession’?

By Alisha Haridasani Gupta From the get go, this economic crisis has been markedly different from previous ones: It wasn’t caused by geopolitical or financial forces, and it disproportionately affected women. A bulk of the jobs that vanished at the start of the coronavirus pandemic [...]

January 18, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Jobs, Pandemic, The New York Times NYT, Unemployment|

The Retirement Crisis for Women of Color
The Retirement Crisis for Women of Color

The Retirement Crisis for Women of Color

by Tatiana Walk-Morris Gender disparities throughout their careers lead women to receive Social Security benefits that are, on average, 80 percent of what men receive, according to the Brookings Institution. Add in racial inequality—census data shows that Black women make 61 cents on the dollar [...]

January 18, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: DAME Magazine, Income Inequality, Jobs, Retirement, Wealth Gap|

Why Big Data Is Failing Women in STEM and How To Fix It
Why Big Data Is Failing Women in STEM and How To Fix It

Why Big Data Is Failing Women in STEM and How To Fix It

By Joan Michelson Big Data dominates our economy. Yet, we don’t have consistent, standardized and real-time data on the jobs driving that 21st century-Big Data economy: science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Especially for women. In the labyrinth of sources, the government’s Bureau of Labor [...]

January 17, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Forbes, Jobs, Occupational Segregation, STEM|

Unemployment Claims Are Rising as the Pandemic Surges
Unemployment Claims Are Rising as the Pandemic Surges

Unemployment Claims Are Rising as the Pandemic Surges

By Peter Wade The jobs crisis in the U.S. is worsening as weekly unemployment claims reached a five-month high, according to new unemployment numbers released by the Department of Labor. Almost 1.4 million people filed initial jobless claims for the week ending January 9th, which [...]

January 14, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Jobs, Pandemic, Recession, Unemployment, Yahoo! Finance|

‘Bloomberg Markets: The Close’ Full Show
‘Bloomberg Markets: The Close’ Full Show

‘Bloomberg Markets: The Close’ Full Show

Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick, Sarah Ponczek & Joe Weisenthal bring you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before the closing bell on Wall Street and tackle the second impeachment of President Trump, Intel's new leadership. One of the [...]

January 13, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Bloomberg|

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JPMorgan Sees Biden’s Stimulus Cutting Unemployment to Less Than 5% by Year End

Will Biden’s Stimulus Package Help Reverse the ‘Shecession’?

The Retirement Crisis for Women of Color

Why Big Data Is Failing Women in STEM and How To Fix It

Unemployment Claims Are Rising as the Pandemic Surges

‘Bloomberg Markets: The Close’ Full Show

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