TikTok CEO defends data policies2023-03-25
TikTok's chief executive Shou Zi Chew appeared on Thursday at the US House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, where lawmakers questioned him about China's influence and data privacy.
U.S. sociologist: Government policy helps the rich, hurts the poor2023-03-23
Over 11 percent of the U.S. population, about one in nine people, lived below the federal poverty line in 2021, but Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond said neither that statistic, nor the federal poverty line itself, encapsulate the full picture of economic insecurity in America, reported National Public Radio (NPR) on Tuesday.
US probably heads for recession: Fortune2023-03-23
The US Federal Reserve, its central banking system, has to decide whether to raise interest rates to fight inflation or keep them low to help the economy, but it might be too late to avoid a recession. JPMorgan strategists think that a soft landing is unlikely.
America has learned little about stopping Asian hate: San Francisco Chronicle2023-03-21
It's been two years since a mass shooting in the Atlanta area shocked the United States and thrust to the national forefront what many Asian Americans already knew: They were not immune to racism, and they were targets in a wave of violent hate that rose alongside the COVID pandemic, reported San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday.
Corporate greed makes so many things running off rails in U.S.: Oxfam2023-03-18
Events such as trains derailing and banks failing are not accidents of nature in the United States, they happen when corporations and the ultrawealthy are allowed to behave recklessly with people's lives and world, reported global poverty-reducing organization Oxfam on Thursday.