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Dr. Elissa Schechter-Perkins is an emergency room physician at Boston Medical Center. She’s also one of the authors of a study that indicates three feet of spacing is just as safe for students as six feet of distance as long as they are masked. See full story.
‘This is a nonpartisan issue’: Black executives urge companies to fight restrictive voting laws
Dozens of prominent Black executives called on corporations to fight Republican-led legislation they say would limit voting access for Black voters in numerous states, and Delta Air Lines Inc.’s CEO publicly clashed with Georgia’s governor over a similar law passed there last week. See full story.
S&P 500 jumps above 4,000 milestone as manufacturing sector booms
Technology stocks gained enough traction early Thursday to push the broad-market S&P 500 index to a new milestone above 4,000 as investors reacted to data pointing to gathering momentum in the U.S. manufacturing sector. See full story.
Semiconductor stocks are getting a lift from Biden’s big spending plan
The president wants to set aside money for chip and electric-vehicle companies. See full story.
Here are the ETFs to help you invest in the Biden infrastructure plan
From water to clean energy, there are lots of investment ideas for benefitting from the trillions of dollars likely to be spent in the coming years. See full story.
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‘Am I safe to spend the money? Or will the Internal Revenue Service want it back from me when the next tax season rolls around?’ See full story.