Without $600 Weekly Benefit, Unemployed Face Bleak Choices
When Latrish Oseko lost her job last spring, government aid helped prevent a crisis from becoming a catastrophe. A $1,700 federal stimulus payment meant that...
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At Talkspace, Start-Up Culture Collides With Mental Health Concerns
In 2016, Ricardo Lori was an avid user of Talkspace — an app that lets people text and chat with a licensed therapist throughout the...
Liability Shield Is a Stumbling Block as Lawmakers Debate Relief
WASHINGTON — Calls to protect corporations and schools from legal blame if workers fall ill from Covid-19 contracted on the job have incited a growing...
Businesses Thought They Were Covered for the Pandemic. Insurers Say No.
When the Great Lockdown started in Michigan, Nick Gavrilides closed the dining room of his Soup Spoon Cafe in Lansing, had some farewell beers with...
Ford Replaces Its C.E.O.
Ford Motor said its chief executive, Jim Hackett, will retire on Oct. 1, ending a three-year run in which the automaker has tried to streamline...
How TikTok’s Owner Tried, and Failed, to Cross the U.S.-China Divide
The Chinese entrepreneur behind TikTok took ample precautions when he set out to straddle the tech world’s most treacherous divide: the one separating China’s tightly...
Overcrowded Housing Invites Covid-19, Even in Silicon Valley
It was not surprising when three-quarters of the house tested positive. There were 12 people in three bedrooms, with a bathroom whose door frequently required...
In Argentina’s Debt Negotiations, a Kinder, Gentler Capitalism Faces a Test
LONDON — Laurence D. Fink presents himself as the vanguard of a progressive form of capitalism in which profits are not everything: The enlightened money...
Grilled by Lawmakers, Big Tech Turns Up the Gaslight
When Mark Zuckerberg appeared in front of Congress two years ago, the Facebook chief executive’s memorable retort to a clueless questioner was “Senator, we run...
Big Tech Hearing Live Updates: Top Bosses Face Congress
Here’s what you need to know: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google will answer...