Business and Economic News

AP-NORC poll: People of color bear COVID-19's economic brunt
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that compared with white Americans, Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to have experienced job and other income losses during the pandemic, and those who have lost income are more likely to have found themselves in deep financial holes.
'One take, no CG': How that viral Bryant Lake Bowl drone video was made
The video includes jaw-dropping shots such as sneaking past two people through the front door and flying through a tight space where the bowling lanes meet the pin machines. Here’s how the creators pulled it all off.
Shuttered venue grants are coming in April, after a long wait
The live music industry breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed a $15 billion grant program for struggling venues. But owners still face uncertainty and delays.
Biden's $1.9 trillion rescue plan set to turbocharge U.S. economy
Economists expect the additional federal spending, coupled with an improving public health picture, will jumpstart economic growth this year.
Reporter acquitted in case seen as attack on press rights
Jurors have acquitted an Iowa journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest in a case that critics have derided as an attack on press freedom and an abuse of prosecutorial discretion. 
Congress OKs $1.9T COVID relief bill in win for Biden, Democrats
Congress has sent President Joe Biden the landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. The House approved the bill Wednesday over solid Republican opposition in a vote that gives the new president and Democrats a victory just seven weeks after he took office.
Roger Mudd, longtime network TV newsman, dies at 93
Longtime NBC and CBS correspondent and television anchor Roger Mudd has died at the age of 93. CBS News says Mudd died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at his home in Virginia.
Greater Minnesota’s child care crisis squeezed by pandemic
Child care providers have been closing in rural Minnesota faster than they can be replaced. Host Angela Davis talks with the author of a new report and the owner of a child care center about how this hurts working families and rural economies. 
States try to push out billions of emergency rental aid to families
Congress approved $25 billion in emergency rental assistance to keep people housed during the pandemic, but states are facing glitches on the federal moratorium for renters and landlords.