House Panel Says Lax Screening Helped Facilitate Pandemic Loan Fraud
Financial technology firms used questionable procedures and business practices that resulted in "the needless loss of taxpayer dollars." read more >
Financial technology firms used questionable procedures and business practices that resulted in "the needless loss of taxpayer dollars." read more >
Richard Ayvazyan and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, were extradited from the Balkan country of Montenegro, where they were living in a luxury seaside villa before their arrest in February. read more >
Travel experts say the pandemic and the ability of many people to work remotely has blurred the lines between business and leisure trips. They think many people will start holiday trips early or return home later than normal because they will spend a few days working remotely — or at least tell the boss they're working remotely. read more >
Among fourth graders, 36% were proficient in math compared with 41% in 2019. In Arkansas, the results were even worse. read more >
Educators see a need to keep students on task to recover from pandemic shutdowns, when many students lost the equivalent of months of learning. read more >
Hospital food service providers say the pandemic challenged them, but it also presented opportunities to pull in culinary talent. Now, inflation is forcing them to make other adjustments. read more >
The FDIC attributed most of the improvement to the stronger economy in 2021, as the coronavirus pandemic restrictions largely expired and there were low levels of unemployment. read more >
The new 9,900-SF lab will be created by renovating an existing space. It's expected to be completed in 2025. read more >
In many cases, the poorest and least white parts of a city only are offered service that's so slow it doesn't meet federal regulators' definition of broadband — and providers regularly charge the same amount for that service as they do for their fastest speeds in other neighborhoods. read more >
Farmers assisted by the program have been found by the USDA to be distressed borrowers hard hit by pandemic-induced market disruptions exacerbated by more frequent, more intense, climate-driven natural disasters. read more >
Prosecutors say the defendants created companies that claimed to be offering food to tens of thousands of children across Minnesota, then sought reimbursement for those meals through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food nutrition programs. read more >
Visitor spending last year totaled about $8 billion, 33% higher than 2020 and on par with 2019. read more >
Only 12% say it is handled extremely or very well. Americans have similar views about health care for older adults. read more >
While the U.S. economy added an eye-popping half-million jobs in July, the leisure and hospitality sector is still playing catch-up. read more >
The Fayetteville-based company helps major retail brands automate identifying the source of fines the companies impose on suppliers. read more >
How banks are investing in employees to improve retention amidst the pandemic's high turnover. read more >
Through the first five months of this year, Conway Regional Medical Center has a $2.4 million loss. And its financial health is expected to worsen if government and commercial health insurance companies don’t increase their reimbursements for services. read more >
The increase of 648,000 barrels per day in August still leaves the world thirsty for oil as it rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic and runs up against the inability of the 23-member OPEC+ alliance to meet its production quotas. read more >
Still, the negative GDP number probably doesn't signal the start of a recession, and economists expect growth to resume later this year. read more >
The San Francisco company believes the ban has worked, saying Tuesday that reports of parties at listed properties have dropped 44% from a year ago. read more >
