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Americans voting for a presidential candidate this year are less likely to have a job than those who cast ballots in 2016. Despite some recovery in the labor market since pandemic lows in April, the U.S. employment rate remains depressed amid a slowing recovery. In October 2016, the official U.S. unemployment rate was 4.9%, compared to 7.9% last month — though the actual jobless rate is thought to be even higher. With jobs top of mind for millions of Americans this election, Yahoo Finance… Source link

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN We may not know who will become the next American President until Election Day, but Google “the next American President” and you’ll find the search engine already has an unexpected idea. On Google Images, the faces of the incumbent President Donald Trump or Democratic hopeful Joe Biden do not appear first. Instead, monochromatic collages in red, white and blue, filled with stars and floral motifs, are ranked over former nominees including Elizabeth Warren,… Source link

Microsoft President Brad Smith on left. (file photo) LONDON: Democracies around the world are under a constant barrage of cyberattacks that must be identified, called out and stopped, Microsoft President Brad Smith told a gathering of security and defence officials on Wednesday. Speaking at the Atlantic Future Forum, Smith named Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the states most frequently engaged in malicious cyberattacks targeting elections and the domestic politics of other… Source link

WASHINGTON — As presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden prepares to announce his vice presidential pick, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that a majority of Democrats believe that Biden should tap a Black woman to join him on the ticket in November. Biden, who promised that he would pick a woman to be his running mate during the Democratic primaries, has said he would reveal his decision in early August.  Sixty percent of Democrats think it’s important for Biden to select a Black… Source link

On this episode of Yahoo Finance Presents, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President & CEO John Williams sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung, to discuss a sweeping variety of topics, including interest rates, yield curve control, corporate bond purchases, liquidity, the Fed’s $7 trillion balance sheet, and many others. Source link