Even celebrities were getting in on the action of the now-infamous PPP loan scam, and it looks like Tyler Perry actress Ion Overman just got added to that list of unfortunate scammers.
The drop in the jobless rate, from 4.2% in November to a healthy 3.9% in December, indicated that many more Americans found work last month as we still navigate a global pandemic.
Housing advocates say evictions are on the rise in the country following the end of a federal ban on rent – though numbers remain below pre-pandemic levels due to the infusion of federal rental assistance and other pandemic-related assistance like expanded child tax credit payments that are also set to end.
A 64-year-old fugitive who surrendered to Australian police because a Sydney lockdown left him jobless and homeless was sentenced on Thursday to an additional two months behind bars for escaping from prison almost 30 years ago.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to its lowest level since the pandemic began, a sign the job market is still improving even as hiring has slowed in the past two months.
The Joe Biden administration has allowed more than 10,000 Haitian migrants to cross the southern border into Texas, where they are camping out under a bridge that connects Texas and Mexico.
One Detroit family is currently suffering an unimaginable loss after seven children lost both of their parents to coronavirus, and they sadly died just hours apart from each other.
Since the start of the pandemic, about 130 Black morticians have died from COVID-19, according to the association that represents them.
From head of households left unemployed with no way of putting food on the table to students in the free lunch program lacking daily meals due to the new remote learning model, the U.S. government officially reported that Latino and Black families facing food insecurity rose substantially in 2020.
Clark Atlanta, Wilberforce University in Ohio, Hampton University in Virginia and Louisiana’s Grambling State University are some of the handful of HBCUs that are using pandemic relief funds and private donations to clear debt for students and change their college experience for the better.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Drake went through barber shop woes during the pandemic like a lot of Black men, but the rap superstar says that actually catching the virus himself was enough excuse to give his infamous heart-shaped hairline some time to go through its rough patch.
