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The Food and Drug Administration's recent decision to grant full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has led to considerable discussion about a possible increase in vaccine mandates.

Maryland's economy gained 22,200 in jobs in July and the state's unemployment rate from dropped from 6.2% to 6.0%, according to preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday morning.

Photo by yomanimus with Flickr Creative Commons License @BryanRenbaum With the price of commodities rising and every day items slowly becoming more expensive economists seem to agree that the threat of inflation is looming and may just be around the corner. The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates at near-zero for sometime but it is unclear how much longer that will be the case. Inflation fears have already begun to impact stocks and the price of oil is on the rise. And in April, the Consumer Price Index grew by 4.2%, the largest annual increase since 2008. In Maryland job growth slowed co...

Study: Maryland has the 10th slowest recovery from the pandemic @BryanRenbaum Maryland ranks near the bottom among states in terms of the pace of its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a recent study. The WalletHub study was released on Tuesday. It said that Maryland is the state with the 10th slowest recovery from COVID-19. South Dakota has the fastest recovery of any state and Michigan has the slowest recovery of any state. Minnesota, West Virginia, Rhode Island, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey are the other states/jurisdictions that have...