Ease co-founders Courtney Guertin, CTO (left) and David Reid, CEO (right), on Thursday announced $ 41 million in Series C funding. Courtesy Choosing employer benefits can seem like a chore, as time-consuming as filling out forms in a doctor’s office. This is especially true for employees of small businesses who …

Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea (Getty Images) Venus Williams earned her place to be one of the most privileged women in tennis (if not in the world), but even her privilege did not always equate to equal income. As the tennis legend wrote in an editorial for British Vogue timed in tandem …

Some people cannot make it to an immunization clinic. Instead, someone has to turn to them in what will be a painstaking process of getting vaccines to everyone who wants one. By Rose Hoban A few days ago, Jay Smith and his wife, Yolanda, loaded his wheelchair into the car …

As the 13th largest city in California, Stockton is not just where you can find the state’s most prestigious university and the state’s Sunrise Seaport, but also one of the most crowded highways. According to the 2018 census, there were 237 fatalities due to traffic accidents in Stockton that resulted in …

Economy New push to increase insurance premiums Wednesday 10 March 2021 Godfrey Kiptum, CEO of the Insurance Regulatory Authority. PHOTO FILE | NMG By PATRICK ALUSHULAMore from this author Summary A price increase would make insurance more expensive in a market struggling to increase penetration by 2.34 percent – the …

Four years ago, the Economic Survey mentioned the need to create the Agency for the Rehabilitation of Public Sector Assets (PARA) to solve the double balance sheet problem of over-indebted companies and banks burdened with bad loans. Since then, the concept of bad bank has been raised in various ways. …

Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program Advances After a difficult start. When the federally guaranteed low interest loans to help small businesses were launched last Friday, businesses struggled to figure out how to apply and banks struggled to get instructions from the government. government. To date, banks forwarded approved loan …

IIt might sound completely counterintuitive, right? If credit cards are what got you into debt in the first place, why on earth would you go ask for another one when you’re trying to pay off that debt? You could risk making things worse. It certainly could happen. But if you …

As the freeze on monthly payments and interest for millions of federal student loan borrowers expires on December 31, the Education Department orders companies that collect federal student loans to temporarily postpone sending bills to borrowers . The postponement may conflict with the deadline that agents should start sending borrowers …

When a local family lost their pet dog, it left them – and especially their children – heartbroken. Without the money to organize a new dog, they contacted an organization that had helped them years before – the Benalla Trust Foundation. Confidence then kicked into action and the family in …

Juanita Dominguez (whose real name has been changed to protect her privacy) is an immigrant from Venezuela and a single mother of two living in Queens, New York. Dominguez was earning a comfortable salary of $ 70,000 as an engineer in a construction company until the pandemic struck and she …

Suffolk Libraries are launching a new laptop loan program to help people connect at home. The goal of the new Device to Your Door program which was funded by the Suffolk Outbreak Management Fund is to provide assistance to those who do not have access to a computer or the …

PROVIDENCE, RI (WPRI) – About 26,000 forgivable loans, totaling $ 2.7 billion, have been made to small businesses in Rhode Island, and more are underway. Francescos in Providence opened in October at the height of the pandemic. Owner Frank Schiavone said he was not eligible for any type of loan, …

AP Photo FRANKFORT, Ky. (NPR / WTVQ) – A report released Wednesday night by National Public Radio and other news outlets raised possible conflicts of interest and other issues involving former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao , wife of longtime Kentucky US Senator Mitch McConnell. . The issues stem from and …

After the coronavirus pandemic shut down many businesses this spring, the three major credit rating companies placed around 2,400 bonds linked to corporate loan pools for possible downgrading. The potential wave turned out to be more of a dribble. But with the two largest rating agencies now completing around 50% …

During the 7th week of the 2021 regular session, the House passed bills relating to taxes, medical care, scholarships, the obligation to withdraw, etc. The following tax measures have been proposed by the House: · HB1023-This bill excludes certain school fundraisers from special events regulation of sales tax laws. · …

TOKYO – Japanese government de facto guarantee of record 130 billion yen ($ 1.22 billion) in emergency loans to Nissan Motor highlights lack of transparency on coronavirus-related corporate bailouts . The Development Bank of Japan granted more than 1.88 trillion yen in crisis response loans between March and July, as …

Get your deposit together Some types of mortgages have low or no down payment options. For example, FHA loans allow you to deposit as little as 3.5%. But for most types of loans, if you put less than 20% of the purchase price of the home, you will need to …

Diogo Dalot sent a message to Manchester United ahead of his return to his parent club on Thursday. Dalot left Man Utd to join AC Milan on loan this summer. However, fate intervened in the draw for the knockout stages of the Europa League, involving the two clubs. Milan will …

Through PTI NEW DELHI: The multilateral funding agency Asian Development Bank (AfDB) announced on Tuesday that it will provide a loan of $ 562.8 million (roughly 4,143 crore rupees) for energy projects in Uttar Pradesh and the Meghalaya. The Asian Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $ 430 million multi-tranche …

China’s first official international loan was made to Guinea in 1960. After adopting the “Going Out” strategy in 1999, which aimed to rapidly deploy foreign exchange reserves outside of China in order to minimize inflationary pressures and monetary institutions, China and Chinese financial institutions have quickly become one of the …

COLOMBO – Struggling with heavy debts and facing a financial crisis caused by the coronavirus, Sri Lanka appears to be doubling its stake: accumulating more Chinese debt despite having had to pay millions of dollars this year to cope to its current obligations. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has looked to China …

Larry Summers “skeptical” of blanket loan cancellation being discussed amid President-elect Joe Biden’s transition to power, arguing that debt cancellation would benefit the rich, not the poor. “I would be rather skeptical of general and massive student debt reduction programs because I think many of these programs would benefit the …

Families and advocates applaud the decision to increase the priority of vaccines for people with disabilities. By Rose Hoban Linda Guzman stayed awake at night worried about her son JJ, a young man in his twenties with autism. “It could be catastrophic for JJ if he contracted the virus along …