Amazon Is Hiring 3,000 Work-from-Home Employees with Full Benefits Amazon continues to be a source of both great deals and work-from-home jobs in 2019. The online retailer is currently hiring 3,000 new remote employees across 18 states for customer service positions. The customer service associate job pays $15 an hour and is a part-time role […]

South Africa is the world’s most unequal country. 25 years of freedom have failed to bridge the divide More than two decades have passed since South Africa overhauled a racist regime designed to keep the country’s black population under the thumb of an elite white minority. But while democracy has delivered freedom for all South […]

Black Girls Continue to Disappear but Few Eyebrows Are Raised The epidemic of missing and mostly forgotten African American girls continues to spread throughout the United States. While the names change, the stories remain similar. Miah Gourdine, just 16-years-old, was headed to school on Tuesday, April 23, but when attendance was taken at Carolina Forest […]

Trump’s ‘Great News’ Lands With a Thud on Abandoned GM Plant Floor When President Donald Trump tweeted that General Motors Co. was on the verge of selling its idled car plant in Lordstown, Ohio, to a tiny electric truck maker, David Green had no idea it was coming. The president of United Auto Workers Local […]

Trump’s steel tariffs cost U.S. consumers $900,000 for every job created “Pressure is growing on Trump to remove steel and aluminum tariffs.” President Trump has shown little interest in removing the steel and aluminum tariffs he imposed more than a year ago despite growing evidence Americans are paying a hefty price for these tariffs and […]

As EPA stalls, 43 states have water sites contaminated with toxic chemicals Toxic chemicals found in nonstick cooking pans and other household items have contaminated more than 600 water sources across at least 43 states, according to a new report, with Michigan by far the most impacted. The findings underscore the wider water crisis facing […]

How employable am I at 57 and being laid off? “Part II of our article focusing on the Auto Industry after the government bailout of 2008” Shifting winds Now Fiat Chrysler is applying the brakes on Cherokee production and eliminating the third shift at Belvidere. Fiat Chrysler has given no indication of further cutbacks, but […]

‘I’m 57. How employable am I going to be?’ “Nearly 1,400 autoworkers are about to lose their jobs in Belvidere, Ill.” Eleven years after the government bailout the auto industry is again in trouble. The story below focuses on a Fiat-Chrysler plant in Belvidere, Ill where the entire third shift is being laid off leaving […]

7 Ways Your Taxes Will Change in 2020 Once you’re done breathing that sigh of relief after filing your taxes this year, it’s time to get right back to work preparing for the next tax season. We’re already nearly one-third of the way through tax year 2019 — the one for which your return is […]

Why credit card data stealing point-of-sale malware is still such a big problem POS thief is still a big problem for those retailers who have not upgraded their software and hardware equipment. Let the buyer(you) beware. Old hardware, vulnerabilities in unsupported operating systems and malware files that are so small they’re virtually undetectable means that […]