Studies highlight benefits of four-day work week - October 6, 2021

ADP’s Employment Report for September beat expectations, showing 568,000 private-sector jobs added last month. The number of people receiving unemployment benefits fell by 55% to 5 million, cut from the 11.3 million who’d been collecting benefits the week prior. Pandemic-era programs that offered income support to the unemployed lapsed on Labor Day, with Congress opting not to extend them again. Here's Why Up To 6 Million Americans Who Lost Covid Unemployment Benefits Likely Won't Return To Work This Year - Forbes Newsom approves laws to revamp California's unemployment benefits system - The Los Angeles Times @charliebilello: ADP Private Payroll Report: 568k new jobs were added in September vs. 428k estimate. 19.6 million jobs were lost in March-April 2020. 14.1 million jobs have since been added back. Still 5.5 million to go. Good news: there are 10.9 million job openings. Stock futures tumbled amid investor concern about rising energy prices after oil prices climbed to their highest level in nearly seven years when OPEC and its allies declined to significantly ramp up production. An offshore oil spill in Southern California threatened some of the area’s most popular beaches and renewed calls for a drilling ban. Global Energy Crisis Is the First of Many in the Clean-Power Era - Bloomberg Oil spill causes problems for OC businesses that rely on beach tourism - The Orange County Register California oil spill: Pipeline wasn't shut down for more than 3 hours after pressure failure alert, feds say - USA Today Monday’s six-hour Facebook outage that also took down Instagram and WhatsApp prompted companies that rely on the network to reconsider using these platforms as their primary tool. Many small businesses use Facebook and Instagram to advertise, connect with customers and sell products and services. Facebook – the U.S.’s second-largest online advertiser – issued an apology to the business community and said advertisers were not billed for ads during the outage. Facebook’s outage frustrates advertis