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Airlines to start offering pre-flight COVID-19 tests - Marketplace
United Airlines will become the first U.S. airline Thursday to launch COVID-19 testing. The airline will run a pilot program for people traveling from San Francisco International Airport to Hawaii.
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Because for airlines, providing access to tests is about stimulating demand, which is still in the tank.
"Without easy access to testing, people likely won’t get on planes," said Zach Griff, who covers the airline industry for the travel website, The Points Guy . He said airlines are trying to break down barriers for travelers.
Bravado Launches Warm Intros Sales Marketplace
Bravado, an online community for sales professionals, launched Warm Intros, a marketplace for sales professionals to transform their networks of trusted contacts into a new opportunistic revenue stream. Bravado has already identified more than $10 million in potential income-generating opportunities.
Warm Intros connects sales professionals with trusted client relationships to users who are looking to build new contacts. Instead of making multiple cold calls, sellers seeking access can simply use the Bravado platform to find community members who can provide the access they seek.
Americans are losing sleep, income, trust amid pandemic, poll finds - Marketplace
More Americans are losing sleep over their current financial situations now compared to earlier in the year , according to the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
The October polling results show 35% of respondents are losing sleep over personal economic concerns. That’s close to the poll’s high of 39% before the 2016 election.
Pandemic-related issues such as income loss, layoffs, missed rent or mortgage payments are now being compounded by other stresses and uncertainties for respondents, like filing unemployment claims, complications with distance learning for their children and another contentious presidential election.
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Shop Latinx, a Community Marketplace, Relaunches With Hundreds of Products
There are more online marketplaces than there are Twitter bots, but this one is worth bookmarking.
Meet Shop Latinx , a brand directory-turned-marketplace with products by and for its titular community.
Other founders would design a new logo and call it a relaunch. But Shop Latinx's v.2 heavily relied on shopper-led curation, cofounders Brittany Chavez and Miles Montes told me.
Why it could work: As 2020 keeps reminding us, Gen Z and millennials are adamant about shopping their values . And Latinx shoppers are a powerful consumer group: They'll drive $1.9+ trillion of U.S. spending by 2023, per Nielsen.
Mail-in ballots posted on Facebook Marketplace near Goleta - NewsChannel 3-12
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - Multiple Santa Barbara County mail-in ballots have been posted to Facebook Marketplace as free items in the Goleta area, not long after they were initially sent out by the Santa Barbara County Department of Elections two weeks ago.
The Santa Barbara County Department of Elections says if voters receive someone else's ballot in the mail, they should write "No longer at address, return to sender" on it and put it back in the mail. This alerts the Elections Office to deactivate the incorrect voter registration.
Oil and gas companies are donating more to Democrats - Marketplace
By one estimate, $11 billion will be spent on this year's election. One interesting sliver of that is the $87 million coming in to the races from oil and gas companies, mostly to Republicans.
But with polls showing strength for Joe Biden and some Democrats vying for Senate seats, fossil fuel companies appear to be hedging some bets now.
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Nova Safo: They are. The numbers still vastly favor Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group. Eighty-five percent of oil and gas donations have gone to President Donald Trump's campaign or to Republican candidates and conservative causes.
Americans on shaky ground financially, speaking out more on racism, poll finds - Marketplace
Nearly half of all Americans would have trouble paying for an unexpected $250 bill and a third of Americans have less income than before the pandemic, according to the latest results of our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
Our latest survey looked at how Americans have been faring financially about six months into the pandemic, race and equity within the workplace, and some of the key issues Trump and Biden supporters are concerned about.
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