Latina Equal Pay Day was this week, and if it’s not bad enough that it took this long for Latinas to be paid as much as white men made in 2019, the coronavirus pandemic is dumping additional bad news on them. Women are dropping out […]
“A recent Federal Reserve survey found that one in five people who were working in February lost their job or were furloughed in March or early April,” writes Frank Christensen in The Hill. “The grim financial difficulties brought on by COVID-19 have hit lower earning workers the hardest. Nearly 40 percent of former […]
Following similar moves across Europe to battle a rising second wave of COVID-19 cases, England is heading into a month-long lockdown. Cinemas and all non-essential businesses across England are going to be ordered to close for a second […]
The IATSE legal department is blasting Senate Republicans for rushing through the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett while refusing to take action to help struggling workers during the coronavirus pandemic. […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new nationwide lockdown Friday in a move that will see cinemas across the country forced to once again close their doors. The new lockdown will last through December 1 […]
Studio Movie Grill, the in-theater dining chain with seven California locations has filed for bankruptcy, one of the first leading exhibitors to officially buckle under pandemic-related financial stress. The Dallas-based company filed for […]
The COVID-19 second wave has hit Europe and cinemas across the continent are again shutting down. Italy, which in February became the first country in Europe to close cinemas due to the coronavirus pandemic, and which re-opened theaters […]
A festival rep tells Deadline that the premiere screenings originally scheduled to begin at 7PM from October 27-29 will now be pushed back to 6PM. Other screenings will take place as planned during the day. A dinner previously […]
“The Trump administration and House Democratic leaders are in striking range of a deal to send $1,200 stimulus checks to American families and to pump $2 trillion into the flagging economy,“ writes Dana Milbank in The Washington […]
When the pandemic hit in March, a JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, began providing paid leave to workers at high risk of serious illness. But last month, shortly after the plant was cited by the federal Occupational Safety and […]
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