Get weekly climate politics updates from Grist Subscribe to The First 100 On Wednesday, Congress passed one of the most sweeping relief programs for minority farmers in the nations history, through a provision of President Bidens pandemic stimulus bill. Although the landmark legislation, which would cancel $4 billion worth of debt, seemed to emerge out…
Half-priced airfares have been quite the topic of conversation over the past 24 hours, with the Australian Government announcing a scheme that’ll see the country’s airlines sell 800,000 flights at the discount rate. That starts in April but if you’re keen on getting away before then, Virgin is doing a flash sale that’ll also slash…
The vast arsenal of fiscal, monetary and legal measures used by Australian governments to offset the COVID-induced economic crisis have worked well. They did not prevent a recession (popularly defined as two quarters of negative GDP growth) but things could have been much worse. What is particularly interesting is that the expected consequences have not…
As pandemic restrictions loosen, bankrupt companies get a new lease on life. As the pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, a new sort of crisis began to emerge: bankruptcies. Companies that entered the year in a position of strength faced a new reality that kept consumers stuck at home and closed down stores, sometimes…