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Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, spoke with Yahoo Finance to discuss the weaker-than-expected April 2021 jobs report and where Fed policy is headed next. Below is a transcript of her appearance on May 10, 2021. – BRIAN CHEUNG: President Daly, I wanted to kick off this conversation with just that jobs report covering the month of April that everyone was watching. It feels like it really missed expectations across the board. From your perspective, what were your… Source link

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his wife Ciara will host a vaccination special on NBC with President Joe Biden. The program, titled “Roll Up Your Sleeves,” will encourage people in the United States to receive the COVID-19 vaccinations. Multiple celebrities — including Charles Barkley, Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Shaquille O’Neal — will appear on the special, which will air Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on NBC. Former President Barack Obama and former… Source link

President Joe Biden is set to unveil a $2 trillion economic recovery plan on Wednesday afternoon, which includes raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% to help pay for a massive overhaul of America’s infrastructure. The proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, is the first of the two economic recovery plans the administration plans to roll out in the coming weeks. Biden will detail the first plan focusing on the infrastructure overhaul on Wednesday in Pittsburgh and the second plan… Source link

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IRI®, a fast-growing, innovative, global provider of technology, data, and predictive analytics for the consumer, retail, and media sectors, today announced the appointment of Kirk Perry, Google’s President of Global Client & Agency Solutions, as President and CEO and a member of its Board of Directors, effective May 17, 2021. Mr. Perry succeeds Andrew Appel, who has successfully led a transformation of IRI for nearly a decade. Mr. Appel will remain an… Source link

The Daily Beast Health-Care Workers Are Bragging on TikTok About Forging Vax Cards Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastBefore she wiped her page on Tuesday, TikTok user hann.brooke95 hadn’t been shy about sharing even the most mundane details of her life with her 19,400 followers.She posted TikToks of herself cooking while breastfeeding, the can of beans she was using for nachos and even the painstaking process of transferring her license as a pharmacy tech from Florida to… Source link

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today announced that Sebastien Marotte will be joining the Box Executive team as President of Box Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective June 7, 2021. The appointment underscores Box’s continued commitment to the region where the Company recently announced a new office opening in Warsaw, Poland, and its recent acquisition of SignRequest, a European electronic signature… Source link

NEW YORK, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — InterPrivate II Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: IPVA.U) (NYSE: IPVA) (NYSE: IPVA WS) (the “Company”) announced today that Susan L. Decker, Jeffrey Harris and Tracey Brophy Warson were appointed to the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) on March 4, 2021, in connection with the Company’s initial public offering. Ms. Decker, Mr. Harris, and Ms. Warson are independent directors. InterPrivate II Acquisition Corp. is led by Chairman and CEO

Bloomberg Tesla Is Plugging a Secret Mega-Battery Into the Texas Grid (Bloomberg) — Elon Musk is getting into the Texas power market, with previously unrevealed construction of a gigantic battery connected to an ailing electric grid that nearly collapsed last month. The move marks Tesla Inc.’s first major foray into the epicenter of the U.S. energy economy.A Tesla subsidiary registered as Gambit Energy Storage LLC is quietly building a more than 100 megawatt energy storage project in… Source link

Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, spoke with Yahoo Finance to discuss challenges to the labor market and where Fed policy is headed next. Below is a transcript of his appearance on March 3, 2021. – BRIAN CHEUNG: Well thank you so much for joining us this afternoon, President Harker. I just want to start off the conversation with broadly speaking, how is the vaccine rollout going in your district? And what do you have as an updated economic outlook as we… Source link

The ongoing union vote at an Amazon (AMZN) warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, has drawn attention in recent days from President Joe Biden, actress Tina Fey, and Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, among many others. Despite the national spotlight, workers at the warehouse continue to endure grueling and unsafe working conditions as well as aggressive anti-union propaganda, said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which has organized the union drive. “It’s… Source link