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Stocks are soaring to new highs as President Biden and congressional Democrats plow ahead with plans to approve another massive coronavirus relief bill.

2020 was the year the jobs went away. But when will they come back? Ben Popken © Provided by NBC News The pandemic cleaved its way through the jobs market this year, carving a wide divide between the businesses that boomed during the crisis and those who were crushed by it. Over 22 million jobs disappeared at the start of the pandemic. Only 12 million have been recovered, leaving another 10 million to go — and the pace of improvement has slowed to a crawl. So where did all the jobs go? Janet Yellen’s rise from Federal Reserve chair to Treasury secretary nominee Replay Vi...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images I've generally been unconcerned with soon-to-be-former President Donald Trump's postelection flailings. His attempts to undermine the US election results seem like more of a moneymaking scheme than anything serious. But there are some worrying trends that Trump exposed during his tantrum. The US economy is still fundamentally broken, the right-wing media is more than willing to subvert the truth, and the Republican Party is undermining our republic. There needs to be real change to fix these problems. Daniel Alpert is an adjunct professo...