News

2021

January

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• Federal rent relief is coming. Thestimulus law passed by Congress in late December includes $25 billion in rental relief funds, with an estimated $2.6 billion coming to California. Here are some things you should know about that money.

• US will require all arriving passengers to get COVID-19 test. Beginning Jan. 26, international travelers bound for the United States must show negative coronavirus test results before boarding their flights. Here’s what you need to know.

• Biden anuncia plan de 1,9 billones de dólares contra COVID. El presidente electo Joe Biden anunció el jueves un plan de 1,9 billones de dólares para combatir al coronavirus y con ello cambiar el curso de la pandemia, acelerar la campaña

• El poder (y la alegría) de estar preparado. Una lección importante de 2020 es que dejar documentos y decisiones anticipadas durante una crisis de salud es un regalo para las personas que amas. El desafío Well de hoy te muestra

• La pérdida de empleos por COVID-19 agravará la falta de vivienda en Los Ángeles para 2023, señala un nuevo informe. Las pérdidas masivas de empleos causadas por la pandemia de COVID-19 en todo el país, dejarán a decenas de miles de trabajadores con bajos salarios sin techo durante los

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• Millions flock to Telegram and Signal apps. Over the past week, tens of millions of people have downloaded Signal and Telegram, making them the two hottest apps in the world. Signal allows messages to be sent with “end-to-end encryption,” meaning

• Biden set to call for big spending on stimulus and vaccines. Money to complete $2,000 direct payments to individuals and aid to small businesses and local and state governments, components that Mr. Biden has stressed in recent weeks, will be part of the initial package, Mr. Deese

• Ford is researching tech for bikes, e-scooters to ‘talk’ to cars. If bicycles and e-scooters could “talk” to cars on the road, riders would be safer — at least in theory. That’s the idea behind a consortium of bike and scooter manufacturers

• Corte falla a favor de Chicago en caso de autos incautados. La Corte Suprema sostiene que cuando se incauta el auto de una persona y ésta pide la quiebra, no es obligatorio devolverle el auto inmediatamente.

• Segundo cheque de estímulo que envía el IRS no podrá ser embargado por cobradores de deuda. Los padres cuyo primer cheque de estímulo fue redirigido para el pago de manutención de menores atrasado, no enfrentarán el mismo escenario con el segundo pago que distribuye el

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• Lost passwords lock billionaires out of their Bitcoin fortunes. Bitcoin owners are getting rich because the cryptocurrency has soared. But what happens when you can’t tap that wealth because you forgot the password to your digital wallet?

• $1 fines from CFPB were common under Trump. That'll change.. It’s a virtual certainty that President-elect Joe Biden will replace President Trump’s appointee as CFPB director, Kathy Kraninger, with someone more focused on defending consumers than business interests.

• La FDA encuentra medicamentos ocultos en casi 50 suplementos dietéticos vendidos en Amazon, eBay. Algunos de los productos contaminados que se venden en Amazon fueron etiquetados como "número uno en ventas" o 'Amazon's Choice'.

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• The economy lost 140K jobs in Dec. All of them were held by women. A year ago, a rare thing happened to American women. For three months, they held more jobs than men in the US economy — something that had only occurred one other time in history, during

• Options for struggling landlords. Critical eviction moratoriums don’t offer much relief for mom-and-pop landlords who still have to pay to keep their buildings operating.

• 'Travel shaming' becoming new social media trend. While millions of Americans are staying home during the pandemic, millions of others are traveling and getting together with friends and family. While pandemic fatigue is affecting a lot of people, pandemic anger is getting

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• Wall Street braces for tougher rules under Democratic majority. The Democratic takeover of the Senate means the financial services industry can expect stricter rules and tougher oversight once President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Narrow Democratic majorities in both chambers will likely prevent the party

• The pandemic is racking up mind-blowing global debt. Around the globe, the pandemic is racking up a mind-blowing bill: trillions of dollars in lost tax revenue, ramped-up spending and new borrowing set to burden the next generation with record levels of debt. In

• ¿Por qué no he recibido mi segundo cheque de estímulos?. Si no ha recibido su cheque de estímulos de $600, la respuesta podría ser que hubo un...

• Cuando el talento y las aspiraciones no son suficiente. Con The Mentoring Place Denice Torres asesora a mujeres para que encuentren su voz en posiciones de dirección de empresa.