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The State House is looking to soften the impact of a hike in unemployment fees businesses pay.

Businesses get a one-month reprieve from huge increase in unemployment fees

As the State House looks to soften the impact, businesses now have until June 30 to pay the first unemployment bills of the year.

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Regulators seek to revoke Robinhood’s Massachusetts license

Robinhood “has continued a pattern of aggressively inducing and enticing trading among its customers — including Massachusetts customers with little or no investment experience,” state regulators say.

Officials subpoena former MassMutual supervisors of Keith Gill, local investor known as ‘Roaring Kitty’

It’s the latest development in an ongoing state effort to determine whether Gill’s investment-related activity online conflicted with his day job as a director of financial wellness education at the Springfield financial services company.

Zuckerberg urged to scrap plans for an Instagram for children

An international coalition of 35 children’s and consumer groups called on Instagram on Thursday to scrap its plans to develop a version of the popular photo-sharing app for users younger than 13.
The General Electric Co. plant in Lynn remains one of the largest manufacturing facilities in the state.

Union workers and community supporters step up efforts to spur GE to invest more in Lynn

The union's protest comes as the Lynn plant stands largely insulated from the broader GE Aviation cuts that happened last year because of the downturn in commercial air travel.
Quickbase CEO Ed Jennings.

Quickbase moving headquarters to Boston

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Diversity at work

Event planner Myriam Michel.
‘You have to embody a persona of whiteness.’ A Black event planner on standing out in a mostly white industry
Myriam Michel is the executive director of the nonprofit Healthy Waltham and the founder of M&M Elite Events.

‘Your skin is so dark’: A WCVB producer on the challenges of being a Black journalist in New England‘White, white, white. Then there’s me.’ A Black lawyer shares her experiences

Juan Lopera is vice president of marketing for public plans and corporate business diversity officer at Tufts Health Plan.
‘I felt liberated knowing I didn’t have to try to sound like a white executive’
Juan Fernando Lopera is vice president and corporate business diversity officer at Tufts Health Plan. Here, he talks about how he leveraged his ethnicity as a business asset — and finally felt comfortable in his own skin.

Shopping while Black: A Boston stylist on being followed, ignored, and discredited‘Perhaps they’d never spoken to an educated young Latina before’

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Delta Air Lines says it can by profitable by late summer unless there's a resurgence of COVID-19.

A $1.2 billion loss for Delta, but recovery is on the radar

The airline says it can by profitable by late summer unless there's a resurgence of COVID-19.

Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos vowed Thursday to focus on making Amazon a better and safer place to work.

Jeff Bezos says Amazon must treat workers better after union vote

Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon later this year to become executive chairman, and it was clear that legacy was on his mind in the letter he wrote to shareholders that was released Thursday.

The MGM Springfield casino in March had its strongest month since 2019.

Revenue at Mass. casinos hit pre-pandemic levels in March

The combined take of $84 million is a promising sign of recovery for the industry.

Thermo Fisher’s share price rose more than 3.4 percent Thursday, closing at $494.38.

Thermo Fisher buys PPD for $17.4b in Waltham giant’s largest deal to date

Thermo Fisher’s share price rose more than 3.4 percent Thursday, closing at $494.38.

A woman walked by the Washington Elms Housing Development in Cambridge, which sits next to high-rise towers in Kendall Square.

Cambridge to begin guaranteed income program for single-parent households

It will become the second city in Massachusetts to give out no-strings-attached money to low-income residents.

The author, Jonathan Saltzman, working from home using a card table and dining room chair. When a physical therapist saw this photo, she said every thing about his position was wrong.

After a year of working from home at a card table, I’m paying the price at the physical therapist

Physical therapists say that although business plunged during the lockdown in the first half of 2020, they soon saw a surge of patients complaining about of head, neck, shoulder, and back pain linked to ergonomically unsound home office setups.

A runner passes the office of the California Employment Development Department in Sacramento.

US weekly unemployment claims dip to 576,000, the lowest number since start of the pandemic

The Labor Department said Thursday that applications plummeted by 193,000 from a week earlier. Jobless claims are now down sharply from a peak of 900,000 in early January.

A health care worker prepared a dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine early this month.

Federal panel recommends continued ‘pause’ on J&J vaccine. Doctors hope to reconvene in a week to 10 days

After a four-hour emergency meeting, the panel of independent experts who advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they needed more time to assess the potential risks of the shot, including whether it posed a danger to men and older people.

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See all the Mass. companies approved for PPP loans

A full list of the local companies and non profits that have been awarded money from the federal government’s small business loan program.
Most PPP money in Mass. went to a small number of companies What we know about PPP in the federal stimulus bill