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Interactive: How AI will affect American cities

Mark Muro, Jacob Whiton, Robert Maxim, and Michael Gaynor

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Volunteers at Los Angeles Food Bank hand out supplies at a drive-through food giveaway as the global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Debunking myths about COVID-19 relief’s ‘unemployment insurance on steroids’

Annelies Goger, Tracy Hadden Loh, and Nicole Bateman

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

A customer is worked on by a nail technician at Akiko Nails, a business that the owner claims has been greatly affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

We can’t recover from a coronavirus recession without helping young workers

Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Weeds are seen near a sign hanging outside a bar that went out of business in Denver February 26, 2009. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES)

Losing your own business is worse than losing a salaried job

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, and Olga Popova

Thursday, May 7, 2020

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The next COVID-19 relief bill must include massive aid to states, especially the hardest-hit areas

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump caps his pen after signing the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act financial response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

The small business relief program is still broken

Monday, April 27, 2020

COVID-19 and the future of ‘techlash’

Monday, April 27, 2020

--FILE--A local resident uses his smartphone to have the QR code scanned through the mobile app of Tencent's WeChat Payment function to pay his purchases at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China, 26 September 2018.WeChat Pay, one of China's biggest mobile payment platforms, is set to expand its presence in Singapore next month at more than 600 retail outlets. From November 1, Cold Storage, Giant, Guardian and 7-Eleven stores across Singapore will start accepting payments through the Tencent-operated platform. The initiative was announced by Singapore Dairy Farm (the regional parent company of the four brands) and Singaporean mobile payment company NETS, which offers cashless QR payment services at more than 55,000 terminals across the country. Chinese nationals based in Singapore or visiting the country as tourists will be able to scan NETS QR code terminals in the 600 retail outlets with WeChat Pay, with transactions conducted in yuan based on the point-of-sale foreign exchange rate. Dairy Farm and NETS said in their statement that the cooperation with WeChat Pay would help serve the growing number of Chinese tourists visiting Singapore. According to the Singapore Tourism Board, arrivals from China in 2017 were up by 13 percent on the previous year, reaching 3.2 million. While WeChat Pay and its rival, Alibaba's Alipay, have ventured overseas into several countries, the services are only available to Chinese nationals.No Use China. No Use France.

China’s digital payments revolution

April 2020

Police officers guard an empty Plaza de Armas after Peru's government deployed military personnel to block major roads, as the country rolled out a 15-day state of emergency to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lima, Peru March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

The socioeconomics of pandemics policy

Dennis J. Snower

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington

Why we need antitrust enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wednesday, April 22, 2020