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For Some Restaurants, Closing Can Be Just As Stressful As Staying Open

We've heard a lot about how hard it's been for restaurants to stay open during the pandemic. But what we often don't hear is that closing can be just as tough.
- Cardiff Garcia
Black-owned restaurants get tech assist from Seattle teens

In a program created by Seattle’s Office of Economic Development and the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, sixteen high school students learned to make glossy new websites for some of the city’s Black-owned restaurants. The goal was to provide the teens with job skills, while giving the restaurants a stronger presence online.
- Amy Radil
Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'

Next week's pay increase would put Costco ahead of much of the industry. CEO W. Craig Jelinek said higher pay reduces turnover and boosts productivity.
- Alina Selyukh
Democrats Say Relief Programs Could Become This Generation's New Deal

Democrats are using the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill to introduce measures they say will reduce poverty. People already at risk for falling behind have seen big setbacks over the past year.
- Kelsey Snell
Watchdog Faults FAA For 'Significant Misunderstanding' Of Flight System

The inspector general for the Transportation Department says U.S. regulators must address oversight failures that led to two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.
- Jaclyn Diaz
For Black Families, Evictions Are Still At A Crisis Point — Despite Moratorium

"Black individuals make up about 21% of all renters, but they make up 35% of all defendants on eviction cases," says Peter Hepburn, a researcher for Princeton University's Eviction Lab.
- Pam Fessler
Board Members Resign From Texas Electric Grid Operator After Mass Power Outages

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has been heavily criticized after last week's winter storm left more than 4 million Texans without power for several days.
- Jaclyn Diaz
After Explosion, FAA Orders Engine Checks On Boeing's Pratt & Whitney Powered Planes

Days after the explosion of an airplane engine over Colorado, the FAA is requiring all aircraft equipped with the same components to undergo fresh inspections, effective immediately.
- Russell Lewis
Boeing 777's Engine Explosion Is The 3rd Such Incident Since 2018

Investigators looking into Saturday's engine explosion of a United Airlines Boeing 777 say several fan blades separated from the engine. But it is too soon to say why it happened.
- Russell Lewis
Who Wins Or Loses If There's An Increase In The Federal Minimum Wage?

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about Democrats' aim to pass a COVID-19 relief package with a hike in the federal minimum wage.

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