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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.

Since the start of the pandemic, about 130 Black morticians have died from COVID-19, according to the association that represents them.

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.

Evictions, which have mostly been on pause during the pandemic, were expected to ramp up Monday after the Biden administration allowed the federal moratorium to expire over the weekend and Congress was unable to do anything to extend it.

U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease for both Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse: three years.

All 178 workers are suspended for two weeks and are set to be fired if they don't get fully vaccinated. For context, 285 employees at the hospital received a medical or religious exemption to taking the vaccine and 332 were granted exemptions due to pregnancy or other reasons.