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 …

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 …