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Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images More than $87 billion in unemployment benefits funded by the federal government was likely siphoned from the system during the Covid-19 pandemic, much of it due to fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report. Congress authorized many new programs in the pandemic’s early
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the CARES Act, at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, U.S., September 28, 2021. Kevin Dietsch | Reuters Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell believes that the omicron variant of Covid-19 and a recent uptick in coronavirus
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Stock futures climbed in overnight trading on Monday following a rebound on Wall Street as investors reassessed risks associated with the new omicron Covid variant. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 110 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures both rose 0.3%. The overnight action came after a broad-based comeback that saw
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A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Stock futures moved higher in overnight trading Sunday following Friday’s big sell-off as investors monitor the latest developments related to the Covid omicron variant. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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