The United Nations World Food Program warned that at least 14 million people in Latin America could suffer from hunger as the pandemic continues to spread, keeping people at home and ravaging the economy.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science related jobs and just 400,000 graduates with the skills needed to fill them. Narrowing that gap has been an acute focus of big tech companies, like Amazon. In November, the Seattle tech titan launched “Amazon Future Engineer,” a program that funds computer science classes and scholarships with a focus on underserved students.
The United Kingdom’s Wine and Spirit Trade Association, known as the WSTA, has signed an agreement with China’s baijiu maker Kweichow Moutai Company with the aim of building a “strategic” cooperative partnership between Britain and China.
The US unemployment rate had been hovering near a historically low level, around 3.5 to 3.6 percent, since September last year.
The US core inflation rate, excluding food and energy, is 1.7 percent, or three-tenths of 1 percent below the Fed's target of 2 percent. Inflation remains low despite tariffs, full employment and rising wages.
The USDA, in its monthly supply and demand report released on Thursday, pegged the US corn yield at 168.4 bushels per acre, compared with 168.2 bushels in September. Analysts were expecting a cut to 167.5 bushels.
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The US Federal Reserve took emergency action on Tuesday, cutting interest rates by half a percentage point-the largest cut since the 2008 financial crisis-in a move to help calm financial markets and stabilize the economy amid fears of the spreading coronavirus.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union estimated last week that 20 meatpacking and food processing workers have died so far.
The US Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest trade federation that represents more than 3 million businesses, voiced its strong opposition to Trump's sweeping tariffs on China in a statement issued March 15.
The United Chinese Americans (UCA), a nationwide non-profit and nonpartisan group, said that the remarks "are deeply troubling and of grave concerns among Chinese Americans and Asian Americans".