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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (Maverick Pictures / Shutterstock.com) President Joe Biden entered office in January facing multiple converging crises and the urgent need to mitigate the previous administration’s most egregious failures: a pandemic entering its second year, exacerbated by a botched vaccine rollout and anti-mask disinformation; businesses crippled by indoor-gathering restrictions and depressed consumer spending; millions of Americans out of work and facing foreclosure, eviction or homelessness; extreme weather emergencies linked to climate change … the list goes on. Now halfway...

TMCnet News Advancing the Expansion of the Middle Class, Rutgers University Appoints Research Fellows to Study the Impact of Shares [December 31, 2020] Advancing the Expansion of the Middle Class, Rutgers University Appoints Research Fellows to Study the Impact of Shares The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing today announced the appointment of 16 research fellows to investigate economic policies that can save jobs, boost middle class wages, close the wealth gap for Black and Latinx workers, and sustain small businesses through the COVID recession. "Profit...

Even as Bay Area restaurants struggle, some seek to treat workers better FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 Sous chef Gabriel Diaz builds a pizza at Gather Kitchen, Bar and Market in Berkeley. The pandemic is the first time Gather has done takeout, and its dropped the menu prices and focused on comfort foods like pizza to be more accessible.Photos by Yalonda M. James / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of9 People stop outside Gather Kitchen, Bar & Market, which has had to switch to takeout during the pandemic.Yalonda M. James / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of9 Jessica Whiteman (left), executive che...