Garrett Hoffmann owns a used car dealership in Arkansas and said he was looking to purchase more cars for his inventory. He found a truck for sale in St. Louis.
While you're here, how about this:
Zoom launches its events platform and marketplace, brings apps to your calls – TechCrunch
OnZoom allows hosts to run one-time events or event series with up 100 or 1,000 attendees (depending on their license) and sell tickets for them. The idea here is for anybody — whether a yoga teacher, nonprofit or a professional event organizer — to list and sell tickets on the OnZoom marketplace. Right now, Zoom accepts PayPal and credit card payments, with the team saying that it may look into other payment options in the future.
Based on the demo the team shared ahead of today’s announcement, it’s a pretty straightforward experience for both hosts and viewers.
How losing health insurance can make the pandemic worse - Marketplace
Last week, 898,000 Americans filed first-time claims for unemployment . That’s more than the week before and more than economists expected.
For a lot of those Americans, that also means they’ve lost their employer-backed health insurance: 69% of workers had employer-sponsored health insurance as of last year. According to a new study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and the Commonwealth Fund, almost 8 million workers have lost jobs that provided health insurance for them and their families since March.
Unexpected $250 bill would be difficult for nearly half in U.S. - Marketplace
Almost 900,000 workers filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, a small jump from the week before, making it the 30th week in a row that that number has topped 800,000.
That's the context for the results from our latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, which measures how Americans are feeling about their personal finances as well as the broader economic picture.
The SparkNotes version? People don't feel much better about the economy now than they did in the spring .
While you're here, how about this:
Medicare's new offerings may be appealing during COVID-19 - Marketplace
Medicare provides health care to those 65 and older, and covers more than 60 million Americans. Medicare open enrollment began Thursday . This year, open enrollment looks different, and so do the options seniors have to choose from.
There are federally funded helpers who assist beneficiaries. But this year with the pandemic, “in-person assistance is either limited or not available in some areas,” Schwarz said.
She said that for many seniors, the cost of premiums is the most important factor when picking a plan. And these new benefits may cost more, but “some of these benefits might be more appealing in the time of COVID-19,” Keohane said.
You can get unemployment benefits after state payments stop - Marketplace
We are now more than six months into the catastrophic wave of unemployment that kicked off with the pandemic in early spring. More than 25 million people are still claiming benefits.
The half-year milestone is significant because, after 26 weeks on the rolls, people's regular state jobless benefits run out. The CARES Act passed in March provides a federally-funded extension of those payments.
Mark Smith of Clackamas, Oregon, has been on unemployment since March when he was laid off from the factory where he worked as a janitor.
Weekly unemployment claims inch up to 898,000 - Marketplace
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week to 898,000, a historically high number and evidence that layoffs remain a hindrance to the economy's recovery from the pandemic recession that erupted seven months ago.
Thursday's report from the Labor Department shows that the job market remans fragile, and it coincides with other recent data that have signaled a slowdown in hiring. The economy is still roughly 10.7 million jobs short of recovering all the 22 million jobs that were lost when the pandemic struck in early spring.
Black-owned barbecue restaurants saw more business during protests - Marketplace
Small businesses have been struggling during the pandemic, particularly Black-owned businesses . In the last few months, Black owners of barbecue restaurants in North Texas say the pandemic has presented new challenges for their businesses, that have seen a downturn in catering and in-store sales.
“I think across the board, the initiative to support Black businesses has helped sustain us through the pandemic,” said Juan Reaves, who co-owns Smokey John’s Bar-B-Que.
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