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POLITICO Get the POLITICO Influence newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. With Theodoric Meyer and Daniel Lippman HOW GOP POPULISM COULD PLAY OUT FOR BIG BUSINESS: Arkansas Sen. U.S. Chamber of Commerce, blasting the business lobby in an interview on the “Hugh Hewitt Show” as a “a front service for woke c...

Report: One-Third of NC Jobs Lost To COVID-19 Have Not Been Recovered   A year into the pandemic, North Carolina continues to experience sustained job losses and a slow recovery rate, with low-income employees and service sectors being hit the hardest. From February of 2020 to February of 2021, the Durham-Chapel Hill area lost 15,400 jobs. Orange, Durham and Chatham County have all seen roughly a six percent decrease in employment since the start of the COVID-19 Recession. In Orange County alone, more than 4,700 residents have lost employment since March. Of those losses, a vast majority ste...

A Chelsea Clinton-Backed Transgender App Is Stirring Up Debate on Twitter On 3/2/21 at 11:42 AM EST A new app called Euphoria has been garnering attention on social media thanks to the recent announcement that Chelsea Clinton has come on board as one of its biggest investors. Of course, the former First Daughter's involvement has also made the app a target for criticism—and that's in addition to the issues that have been raised about the app's actual content, which doesn't sit right with some members of the transgender community. Euphoria, an app designed to help people during gender transi...

A n interesting thing happened in 2020: While many businesses took massive hits that will in some cases prove to be the death knell for companies, applications for new businesses skyrocketed across the country in the second half of the year. Applications for new employer identification numbers — required for companies to hire employees — hovered around 860,000 per quarter in 2018 and 2019, according to Census data, then surged to 1.6 million applications in the third quarter of 2020 and another 1.1 million in the year's last quarter. What's more, despite the pa...

The Triad ended 2020 with a slightly lower unemployment rate, but still nearly twice its pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels.