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California adopts emergency COVID-19 workplace safety rules - Marketplace
California has become the fourth and largest state to adopt emergency workplace protections for COVID-19. Nearly 20 million workers in California will be protected by the new mandate, which includes requirements for face masks, physical distancing and reporting of outbreaks in the workplace.
Virginia , Michigan and Oregon have moved forward with similar plans, though such measures haven’t been legally required at the federal level. However, the Biden administration could change that.
Online Marketplace Wish Files for Initial Public Offering
(Bloomberg) -- Online retailer Wish has filed for a U.S. initial public offering, joining the rush of consumer technology companies seeking to go public before the end of the year.
Wish's parent company, San Francisco-based ContextLogic Inc., plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol WISH, according to a filing Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It listed a potential offering size of $1 billion, a placeholder that will likely change.
Former Sturgeon Bay Younkers opens Friday as The Marketplace
STURGEON BAY - After a hiatus of more than two years, a 140-year history of retail shopping returns to the corner of North Third Avenue and Louisiana Street.
Headlined by Bliss, a home accessories store, three shops have moved into The Marketplace, a new retail space in the former Younkers building. Joining Bliss are Lola May's, a women's clothing boutique, and Monticello on Jefferson, a longstanding women's clothing and gift shop that's opening a pop-up shop for the holiday season. All three have been located on Jefferson Street — with Bliss open since 2001.
And here's another article:
Marketplace to Revitalize Merchants & Fund Humanitarian Orgs - Aurora, IL Patch
Local Merchants/Vendors/Contractors are Invited to Sell to Over 600,000 Shoppers on the "Aurora-Metro Area Ecommerce Marketplace (MWM) of Aurora and 11 adjacent communities: Batavia, Geneva, Lisle, Montgomery, Naperville, North Aurora, Oswego, Plainfield, St. Charles, Warrenville, and Yorkville, covering 315 square miles.
Chuck Dushek of EcomGeoMarketplaces + Several Technology Services Collaborators will be Launching the Marketplace, whereby only local Merchants/Vendors/Contractors that are physically located within the Metro-Area can be Selling Members of Marketplace. The Selling Area of Marketplace focuses only on the 315 square miles, which will have heavy and continuous online promotion to the 600.000 population to "SHOP HERE on MARKETPLACE ".
Mnuchin moves to cut off Fed pandemic emergency lending program - Marketplace
David Brancaccio: So what is going on here? Is this a difference of opinion among reasonable people about when to ratchet back on some stimulus?
Petrou: Yes and no. I agree with the Fed that, particularly given the awful pandemic news we’re getting, the economy is going to need rescuing. The fact is none of these Fed programs, at least the ones that Treasury is targeting, has worked. And they haven’t worked well because of the uncomfortable square peg-round hole challenge of getting the Fed to do the Treasury’s and the federal government’s bidding.
Unemployment claims increase as pandemic worsens - Marketplace
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid rose last week to 742,000, the first increase in five weeks and a sign that the resurgent viral outbreak is likely slowing the economy and forcing more companies to cut jobs.
The Labor Department's report Thursday showed that applications for benefits rose from 711,000 in the previous week. Claims had soared to 6.9 million in March when the pandemic first intensified. Before the pandemic, applications typically hovered about 225,000 a week.
Two PlayStation 5s stolen during Facebook Marketplace scams in Troy
In Troy police are looking into the thefts of two Playstation 5s during Facebook Marketplace sales.
Two parties met, one with a PlayStation 5, and the "buyer" was supposed to have the money in the parking lot of the Troy police station, no less.
"Here at the Troy Police Department circle driveway, we have Craig's List Safe zone where people can take advantage of our location here," said Officer John Julian. "The suspects asked to look at the item while still in the vehicle they get the item and fled the location."
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Rep. Reed spoke to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin about $450 billion earmarked for COVID relief from the CARES Act that… https://t.co/ysWO8QqG8s ASP (from United States) Fri Nov 20 16:44:09 +0000 2020
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