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The week-long celebration highlights ongoing efforts to support, highlight, educate and empower local Black entrepreneurs and businesses. MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis kicked off its fourth annual Black Business Week on Monday, getting a head start on National Black Business Month in August. City leaders said the week-long commemoration highlights ongoing efforts to support, highlight, educate and empower local Black entrepreneurs and business owners. “That’s what Black Business Week is about — encouraging and connecting Black business owners and entrepreneurs with programs, funding, resources and technical support within the city and beyond,” Minneapolis City Council Member Andrea Jenkins said in a video…

President Biden’s move to drop out of the presidential race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination has prompted investors and economists to reassess the race’s impact on everything from the stock market to the so-called “Trump trade.”For now, U.S. markets have taken Biden’s announcement that he is quitting the election in stride, with the broad S&P 500 index and the tech-heavy Nasdaq both rising in Monday trading, in part because Wall Street had already priced in the possibility of Biden stepping down. But in the short term, investors are warning that U.S. markets could see more…

In June 2024, the National Association of State Governors’ Children and Families team hosted a monthly Association of Human Services Policy Advisors call on Benefit Cliff Mitigation and Supporting Economic Uplift. background Benefit cliffs occur when there is a gap between the income gained in a new occupation or job and the value of benefits lost due to the income increase. Benefit cliffs are often sudden and unexpected, and occur with small income increases that do not compensate for lost benefits. Such cliffs force families to choose between economic mobility and losing important support. Several policy solutions can mitigate the…

We’ve made several improvements to The War Within™’s user interface and quest icons, including a new arachnophobia filter, to make your adventure even more comfortable. New map legend Players can open the map (hotkey M) to see the new map keys that have been added, allowing them to quickly and easily identify different types of quests and content. Quests Campaign: Quests that are a continuation of the main story. Legendary: Quests that offer legendary rewards. Repeatable: Quests that are time-limited. In Progress: Quests that are currently in progress. Important: Quests that unlock important features or rewards or teach…

Melvin Bachman, Quartz (TNS) Business class is becoming popular again. Consulting firm Deloitte said in a report this week that U.S. business travel may soon surpass pre-pandemic levels, suggesting that frequent flyers “business travelers” continue to return to the skies. Seventy-three percent of those surveyed expect their business travel to increase this year, up 15 percentage points from 2023. “By the end of 2024, U.S. corporate spending is expected to reach and likely exceed 2019 levels,” Deloitte said in its annual corporate travel survey. Meanwhile, the report found that the number of people traveling for business is down overall. But…

Delta Air Lines canceled more than 600 flights on Monday after a global technical outage continued for a fourth day.Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has already had to cancel hundreds of flights after a software update on Friday took down computer systems around the world, causing widespread disruptions at airports, hospitals and many other businesses. On Sunday alone, Delta canceled more than 1,300 flights and delayed about 1,600, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.The technical issue was caused by an update released by security firm CrowdStrike for systems that run on Microsoft Windows, whose software is widely used by businesses to protect…

The Economic Survey 2023-24, tabled in Parliament by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday, recognises mental health as the driver that most impacts individual and national development and for the first time gives extensive emphasis on this health issue, its importance and its implications for policy recommendations.At an economy-wide level, mental illness leads to significant losses in productivity through absenteeism, reduced productivity, disability and increased health care costs, the study said. There is also evidence that poverty exacerbates the risk of mental illness and leads to increased psychological distress due to stressful life environments, economic instability and lack of…

CAMBRIDGE, UK – DECEMBER 9: Scientists are examining cells in a 96-well plate. These are… [+] The plates allow scientists to look at many cells at once and directly compare cells that have been treated with a drug with those that have not. Photograph taken at Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, UK, December 9, 2014. Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity whose mission is to save lives through research. Their vision is to hasten the day when all cancers are cured. They have saved millions of lives by discovering new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat…

U.S. stocks rose on Monday, with tech shares leading the gains as investors gauged the potential impact of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential election.The S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose as much as 1%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC) added about 1.3%, both recovering from their worst weekly losses since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose 0.4% after the index’s sharp decline on Friday.Semiconductor giant Nvidia (NVDA) led a broader tech rebound after a big sell-off last week as investors pulled out of big name stocks.Investors are closely watching the political situation after Biden on Sunday…

AKRON, Ohio — Goodyear announced Monday that it will sell its off-road tire business to Yokohama Rubber for $905 million.Goodyear announced the sale Monday morning. Goodyear’s off-road division makes tires for large vehicles in the mining and construction industries. These tires are made to travel over rock and gravel and are about 8 to 13 feet in diameter.Yokohama was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Japan, but has US factories in Salem, Virginia and West Point, Mississippi.Goodyear said the sale is expected to close in early 2025. The company said it would use proceeds from the sale to fund…