Giliane Lidye

  There are more job openings now than at any other time in recorded U.S. history. But will the bargaining power last? Ariana Garcia, 27, with her son, Noel, 7, in Lancaster, Pa. Garcia was working as a manager at a MAC Cosmetics store before the pandemic and pivoted to real estate last year for better stability and flexibility and to spend more time with her son. A pandemic-tightened labor market has given willing and able workers more of an upper hand with their employers for the first time in generations. While workers are trying to take advantage of this rare moment of opportunity, economists are less convinced. Worker power is the ability of an employee to command higher wages and benefits and set terms about their working conditions. Since the 1950s, worker power has generally been on the decline as the power of corporations and shareholders grew and union strength fell. But now the nation has the most job openings it has ever had since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started ...

  At least 27 LGBTQ athletes from eight countries will compete in this year's Paralympics in Tokyo. Great Britain's Laurie Williams, left, and Germany's Gesche Schunemann during the wheelchair basketball event at the Paralympic World Cup in 2011. Williams is one of four LGBTQ members of Great Britain's women's wheelchair basketball team. When the 2020 Paralympics kick off on Aug. 24, there will be at least 27 openly LGBTQ athletes from eight countries competing, according to LGBTQ sports site Outsports.  That’s more than double the 12 who competed at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, and it comes after record-setting representation at the Tokyo Summer Games, where at least 185 queer Olympians competed, according to Outsports.  Lauren Appelbaum of RespectAbility, a nonprofit that works to change how society views people with disabilities, said the increased visibility points to the “large intersection” between the LGBTQ and disabled communities. “We hope that even mo...

  Doctors were carefully monitoring the two because of their ages, one of their sons said Sunday. The Rev. Jesse Jackson gets a Covid-19 vaccine shot in January at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago.  The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, are “responding positively” to medical treatment after having been hospitalized with Covid-19, their family said Sunday. Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago were “carefully monitoring” their conditions because of their ages, said their son Jonathan Jackson. Jesse Jackson is 79, and Jacqueline Jackson is 77. “Both are resting comfortably and are responding positively to their treatment,” he said in a statement. He did not say what treatments his parents were receiving or how they contracted the coronavirus. Both were vaccinated in January. Their positive tests are two examples of high-profile “breakthrough” cases, which public health experts say are rare and expected and usually result in mild symptoms. Fully va...