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(2) CALABASAS, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 9, 2021 / Unsun Cosmetics has been selected for Qurate Retail Groups Small Business Spotlight, a collaboration with the National Retail Federation (NRF) Foundation to strengthen diverse small businesses through increased exposure and various other pro bono in-kind services. The program, which will run throughout 2021, builds on Qurate Retail Groups longstanding foundation of supporting small businesses and reflects the companys and NRF Foundations comm...

Centrist Democrats pose major problem for progressives Alexander Bolton © Greg Nash Centrist Democrats pose major problem for progressives The new strength of Democratic moderates in the Senate may temper just how aggressively Democratic leaders can push for President Bidens $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package and other priorities, including climate change legislation. The addition of two new Democratic moderates to the Senate - newly elected Sens. John Hickenlooper (Colo.)...

By Dian Schaffhauser 02/05/21 The longer the pandemic lasts, the more students question the value of a college education. A December survey by New America and Third Way found that nearly three in five college students (57 percent) agreed with the sentiment that higher education was no longer "worth the cost," a bump up from 49 percent in a previous survey in August. Among high school seniors, however, that sentiment was on the decline: While Augusts survey found that seven in 10 students questi...

Cutting U.S. carbon emissions to zero by midcentury will require trillions of dollars of investment and disrupt entire sectors of the economy reliant on fossil fuels. But that doesn’t mean that states most reliant on fossil fuel extraction or industries powered by them must lose out in the transition.  That’s a key finding of the Decarb America report released Thursday by Third Way, Clean Air Task Force and the Bipartisan Policy Center. It’s the latest in a slew of recent studies p...

Listen • 3:47 Many colleges are starting their spring semester this week, and new data show that schools are bringing students back to campus, with more in-person classes. Last week, Ayiana Davis Polen finally set foot on the campus of Spelman College — a historically Black liberal arts school for women in Atlanta. Shes a freshman there but had started her college experience last fall taking classes from her bedroom in Puerto Rico. Back then, she wasnt sure if it felt li...

Last week, the Washington D.C.-based urban planning nonprofit Smart Growth America held a three-day virtual summit about improving racial equity and taking action on restorative justice in housing, business development and transportation. Day three, dedicated to the latter, centered around the environmental, health, and economic damage inflicted by the interstate highway system, envisioned in the 1950s and ’60s as massive urban renewal projects which, in actuality, razed homes and businesses,...

Congress is starting to move on more cyber bills, even if few become law (getty) Feb 3, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP Congress dramatically ratcheted up the number of cybersecurity bills introduced in the last two years compared to the prior session of Congress, but that didn’t equate to much more of it becoming law, according to a think tank study out today. And while cybersecurity legislation remained a relative oasis of bipartisanship, that tendency sharply dropped off when it cam...

Checks May Go to Many High-Income Households: Stimulus Update Bloomberg 2/02/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg Runners with the Nassau County Department of Health prepare doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, on Jan. 30. (Bloomberg) -- The Senate on Tuesday began a process that would let Democrats pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus without Republican votes. A report showed that many well-off households wou...

Meredith Miotke for NPR Last week, Ayiana Davis Polen finally set foot on the campus of Spelman College — a historically Black liberal arts school for women in Atlanta. Shes a freshman there but had started her college experience last fall taking classes from her bedroom in Puerto Rico. Back then, she wasnt sure if it felt like college — but then again, she had nothing to compare it with. Now, shes about to. Spelman, like many colleges across the U.S., is beefing up its in-perso...

Credit: Meredith Miotke for NPR Colleges Add More In-Person Classes For Spring, Amid High Risk Of Coronavirus Spread By at 2:19 am NPR Last week, Ayiana Davis Polen finally set foot on the campus of Spelman College — a historically Black liberal arts school for women in Atlanta. Shes a freshman there but had started her college experience last fall taking classes from her bedroom in Puerto Rico. Back then, she wasnt sure if it felt like college — but...