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SUN, 11/8/2020

Sunday, November 8, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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Employees wear protective masks in a conference room at a JLL office in Dallas on Sept. 9, 2020.

Analysis: COVID-proofing air is a $10B opportunity

When's the last time you actually thought about your office's air conditioner? Pre-pandemic, assuming it worked, probably never. Today? Probably a lot.
Affording the holiday season can present a lot of challenges, especially if your household has been affected financially by circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether you’re trying to save, pay down debt or replenish money lost due to pandemic-related setbacks, you can stay true to your financial goals by borrowing tips from minimalists.

Millennial Money: Minimalist tips to maximize the holidays

After spending nearly $2,000 in gifts for her daughter's first Christmas in 2017, Meg Nordmann knew her holiday strategy had to change.
As your parents get older and you get more established, they may turn to you for financial support. And now may be the time older people need help.

When to give money to your parents (and when not to)

As your parents get older and you get more established, they may turn to you for financial support. And now may be the time older people need help.
At birth, the average U.S. male has a life expectancy of about 76 years and the average female 81 years, according to the Social Security Administration. If you make it to 65, though, the average man can expect to live to nearly 83 and an average woman to 85.

Liz Weston: The upsides to thinking about when you will die

Assumptions about life expectancy can make a dramatic difference in retirement strategies.
Serious challenges are looming for low-income homeowners.
Analysis: Wave of foreclosures may follow housing market boom
Serious challenges are looming for low-income homeowners. Expect a wave of foreclosures in 2021.
Workers at Fresh Pond Crematory in Queens, N.Y., receive a casket. The vast number of deaths in April during the coronavirus outbreak compelled a local funeral home to insist upon cremation for all services.
Will AI save us from coronavirus?
Millions of gigabytes of data are being generated by the pandemic each day in medical records and other information on infected patients. Now, nearly 10 months into the outbreak, scientists are starting to make connections in this jumble of letters and numbers with the help of artificial intelligence, leading to new theories about the virus and how to stop it.
Today, when so many parents are working from home alongside kids who are schooling from home, every day is bring-your-child-to-work day. And “novelty” no longer describes it.
In a pandemic, every day is bring-your-child-to-work day
Today, when so many parents are working from home alongside kids who are schooling from home, every day is bring-your-child-to-work day. And "novelty" no longer describes it.
Jack Ma in 2017.
Inside the chaotic unraveling of Jack Ma's $35 billion IPO
Among the questions that linger as international investors try to make sense of a chaotic 72 hours: Why would China scuttle Ant's IPO at the last minute after months of meticulous preparation? And what does the future hold for one of the country's most important companies?
A Waymo Chrysler Pacifica autonomous vehiclein Chandler, Ariz., on July 30, 2018.
Waymo seeks to calm doubts about driverless cars with data trove
Autonomous vehicle developers have so far operated without shared industry standards for safety and with minimal oversight from state and federal governments. Waymo, saying that it is seeking to revive a conversation around these issues, recently released a trove of safety data for its fleet of robo-taxis in Arizona.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in Bengaluru, India, on Oct. 23, 2019.
Analysis: Uber's ballot victory doesn't fix gig economy's big problem
It may be tempting for Uber and Lyft to rest easy after the win, but that isn't going to work. The current state of affairs -- one where gig workers do not have much of a safety net -- isn't sustainable.
A driver and passenger wearing protective masks exit the ride sharing pickup area in a car displaying Uber signage at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco on May 4, 2020.
Uber won its prized contractor status for drivers. Now what?
While Proposition 22 requires these app-based transportation services to offer some modest new perks for drivers, it protects them from having to provide much costlier benefits that full-time employees get.
Circuit judge Vincent F. Cornelius
Business Ledger | Hospital names judge to its board
Vincent F. Cornelius, a circuit judge of the 12th Judicial Court of Will County, has been appointed to the Silver Cross Hospital board of directors.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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