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Younger workers are hit hardest in the coronavirus job market, and it spells bad news for millennials and Gen Z

Younger workers are bearing the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic more so than older workers, according to a recent report by Data for Progress.More than half of those polled under age 45 have lost jobs, lost hours, or been put on leave, the report found.It's bad news for millennials, who are still financially behind from the Great Recession, and Gen Z, who might find themselves on the same path as older millennials.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.The economic shock of the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately impacting younger workers the most.More than half (52%) of respondents under age 45 have lost jobs, lost hours, or been put on leave, according to a recent report by Data for Progress which surveyed 2,644 likely voters in the US. That's compared to 26%




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American billionaire hedge-fund manager Julian Robertson took $800,000 in COVID-19 aid from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at his luxury resorts

Hedge-fund billionaire Julian Robertson received a total of $1.2 million NZ ($800,000 USD) from the New Zealand government to pay employees at his luxury resorts.Not unlike the Paycheck Protection Program that helps American businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis, New Zealand's wage subsidy has been hit by allegations of fraud and favoring large businesses. Robertson has amassed a $4.4 billion fortune running hedge fund Tiger Management.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.A billionaire former hedge-fund manager took hundreds of thousands of dollars from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at the luxury resorts he owns there, data from New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development shows.Julian Robertson's luxury resorts and golf courses received more than $1.2 million




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This is the official 'Say So' TikTok dance challenge for the Nicki Minaj remix video, according to Doja Cat

Doja Cat released a remix of her hit single "Say So" featuring Nicki Minaj on May 1.Doja Cat recently promoted choreographer Cortland Brown's dance challenge as the official "Say So" remix TikTok dance.Other TikTokers, like original "Say So" dance challenge creator Haley Sharpe, have released TikTok dance videos to the remix as well.Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.There's a new dance challenge for Nicki Minaj's remix of Doja Cat's "Say So," and Doja Cat herself has christened it as the official dance for the remix.Created by choreographer and creative director Fullout Cortland, whose real name is Cortland Brown, the dance is set to the tail end of Minaj's first verse of the remix and the beginning of the chorus. —SAY SO FEAT. NICKI MINAJ OUT NOW! (@DojaCat) May 8, 2020Doja Cat is




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It might take up to 15 years for the class of 2020 to catch up financially, but a recession expert says there's an upside to graduating right now

Gen Z is graduating into a crippled economy marked by a nearly century-high unemployment rate of 14.7%.Research shows that recession graduates typically see stagnant financial growth that can last for up to 15 years.But the author behind this research told Business Insider there's an upside: These graduates job hop to play financial catch-up, which makes them more flexible and helps them advance their career.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Gen Z is in for a bumpy ride.The class of 2020 is graduating into a grim economy: The unemployment rate surged to 14.7% in April, a number not seen in nearly a century, since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The US lost a record 20.5 million jobs in April. That's roughly 25 times the worst monthly decline seen during the Great Recession,




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Britain bursts into bloom as warm Algerian air sparks heatwave across Europe

Every summer this two-acre field at Combe Cross Farm in Monksilver, near Taunton, Somerset, explodes into a kaleidoscope of colour. It was created after a farmer abandoned the field.




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Torrential downpours on way for southern Britain TODAY

Yet another band of rain is set to move in across southern parts of England into the east coast today as torrential downpours travel from the continent. This follows flash flooding in Edinburgh yesterday.




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Forecasters predict UK faces high winds, snow and freezing -5C temperatures as Storm Ciara moves in

This is the terrifying moment an aircraft struggled to make a smooth landing before finally touching down at an angle on the tarmac in West Yorkshire this afternoon.




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Storm Ciara set to strike this weekend as Met Office names weather system

Storm Ciara is set to batter the country this weekend with gale force winds reaching upwards of 80mph forcing the Met Office to issue a two-day weather warning spanning the whole of Britain.




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Storm Ciara: falling tree kills driver as gales and snow hit UK

Emergency services were scrambled to the scene in Clydebank, West Dumbartonshire at around 11am today after the 77-year-old pensioner fell over but he couldn't be saved.




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India registered over 3,000 cases and 95 deaths in last 24 hours, says the Union Health Ministry

The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in India.This is an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry. The total number of cases also include 111 foreign nationals.The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 39,834, while 17,846 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said. "Thus, around 29.91 per cent patients have recovered so far," a senior health ministry official said.The total number of cases also include 111 foreign nationals.A total 95 deaths




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Reliable test of flexible printed circuit boards

The Yamaha® MP Series combined with the R&S®ZNBT vector network analyzer measure the high frequency characteristics of a production lot at high speed and high accuracy.




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ROAD TO RIO 2016 - Harry Brown: Playing for Amiab Albacete in Spain has been awesome and I can't wait to take part in World Championships

ROAD TO RIO 2016: I’ve just finished my first year playing abroad. I left Sheffield Steelers to join Amiab Albacete in Spain and it was awesome! The basketball is totally different and, because it’s a semi-professional league, you are there just to play.




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CHRIS MEARS: It was so special to win silver alongside Jack Laugher in London 

I can’t tell you how special it felt to win a medal in front of a home crowd in London. It was a great atmosphere and the fans always give you a huge boost.




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CHRIS MEARS: I got a lot of heat on social media for saying Kazan looked like a scene from a Disney film... but I'm focused on Rio

It’s only a year to go until the Olympics start, but there’s still plenty of work to do. We went to Rio earlier this year and it was fantastic. I'm really looking forward to getting in the pool out there.




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Greg Rutherford continues unbeaten 2016 with win at Rome Diamond League as he steps up preparations for Rio Olympics

The 29-year-old Brit Greg Rutherford, also the reigning world and European champion, posted a season best of 8.31metres in the second round to dominate the event.




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Trump brushes aside Giuliani's 'insurance' claim and defends former mayor as 'great crime fighter'

Donald Trump said he has no idea what kind of 'insurance' Rudy Giuliani has but defended his personal attorney after the former mayor warned the president not to throw him under the bus. 




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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy admits he was wrong for Ukraine conspiracy theory

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, 68, walked back on his comments that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election during an interview on CNN on Monday.




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Two White House Budget Officials resigned when Trump froze aid to Ukraine

Federal budget official Mark Sandy's testimony to the House impeachment inquiry was released on Tuesday. He told the inquiry two officials had concerns about the aid being held.




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Donald Trump says he 'did NOT direct' Rudy Giuliani to dig for dirt in Ukraine

President Donald Trump said he didn't tell his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to undertake efforts in Ukraine on his behalf, saying he didn't 'direct' his lawyer to pursue the course he did.




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Gynaecologist quizzed by Ukrainian police 'after woman sees her intimate examination on a porn site'

Police have questioned a 'respected' Ukrainian gynaecologist, Dr Vyacheslav Tripolko, after an unnamed woman saw herself on an adult site undergoing an ultrasound investigation.




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Mother 'tries to smother son in Ukrainian hospital after crying distracted her from drinking'

An unnamed 33-year-old woman allegedly tried to kill her young child at a children's hospital in Odesa, Ukraine. She was in the middle of a drinking session when her son woke up crying.




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Three-year-old boy shot dead in botched assassination attempt on his Ukrainian politican father 

Three-year-old Sasha Soboleva (pictured left), was shot in the head on the back seat of his father's car (pictured top right) during a failed assassination attempt in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.




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Devin Nunes talked with Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas during scheme to remove Ukraine ambassador

Rep. Devin Nunes was in touch with Rudy Giuliani and his indicted associate Lev Parnas as they schemed to get the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed.




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House Intelligence Committee's impeachment report reveals Giuliani's extensive White House contact

Call records released in the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment inquiry report reveals multiple contacts between Rudy Giuliani and the White House during the Ukraine controversy.




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Adam Schiff was WRONG when his Intel report claimed Rudy Giuliani phoned Mick Mulvaney

The Trump Administration says a key claim in Schiff's impeachment report is inaccurate, insisting Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani did not have a 13-minute phone call with a top White House budget official.




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'Nobody can figure out who the eff she is': Giuliani's spokeswoman is 20 and hasn't finished college

Rudy Giuliani's communications director is a 20-year-old who hasn't even graduated from college yet but who is now the gatekeeper to the president's personal attorney.




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Top Judiciary Republican who doubles as military chaplain explodes at Eric Swalwell

Rep. Doug Collins,who doubles as a military chaplain, unloaded on former Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swallwell calling his claims about Ukraine deaths a 'load of hogwash.'




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Donald Trump defends Rudy Giuliani as a 'great crime fighter' who does it 'out of love'

President Donald Trump hailed lawyer Rudy Giuliani as a 'great crimefighter' as the House prepares to vote on two presidential impeachment articles after a probe that focused on Giuliani's role.




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Giuliani says he wanted to get rid of Marie Yovanovitch because she was enabling Ukraine corruption

Rudy Giuliani detailed Tuesday that he felt it was necessary for Marie Yovanovitch to be prematurely removed from her post because she was enabling Ukrainian corruption.




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Texts reveal 'former pro golfer David Correia went to Ukraine with two Rudy Giuliani associates'

Ex-golfer David Correia worked to further the business interests of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman in their bid to sell liquefied US natural gas to Ukraine and other parts of Europe through Poland.




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Bloody Mary-drinking Rudy Giuliani slams New York federal prosecutors

Rudy Giuliani (right), President Trump's personal attorney, slammed George Soros (left) by questioning his Judaism - even though the Hungarian-born billionaire is a Holocaust survivor.




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Giuliani attends midnight mass at St Patrick's after that bizarre drunken interview

Rudy Giuliani attended midnight mass at the Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral after he slammed liberal financier George Soros by questioning his Judaism.




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Joe Biden says he will defy subpoena to testify in Trump's Senate impeachment trial

The former vice president told an Iowa editorial board that he would not comply if subpoenaed in an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump because it would detract from from his own actions.




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Graham urged Rudy Giuiliani to vet intel on Joe Biden, his son Hunter and alleged Ukraine corruption

The Republican senator from South Carolina is concerned that the president's former lawyer vet his research from sources known for peddling Russian conspiracy theories.




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Little Ukrainian girl is found living in a make-shift tent on a RUBBISH DUMP

A father is accused of collecting his daughter from an orphanage only to abandon her at a rubbish dump in Odessa, Ukraine months later. She was discovered by authorities on December 30.




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Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus dupe Maxine Waters in phone call posing as Greta Thunberg

Rep Maxine Waters was duped into thinking she was speaking with Greta Thunberg in a prank phone call with Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov published on YouTube Thursday.




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Pictured: Three British victims of Ukrainian Airlines flight in Iran

Mohammad Reza Kadkhoda-Zadeh (pictured), 40, is understood to have travelled to Iran to see family over the Christmas period and was returning to the UK via Ukraine.




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Rudy Giuliani says president should ask the Supreme Court to DISMISS his impeachment

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani wants the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and declare the Democratic-driven impeachment unconstitutional.




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Nancy Pelosi says 'rogue' attorney general Bill Barr warrants a special prosecutor

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says AG Bill Barr is 'implicated' in testimony by Lev Parnas about the Ukraine affair, but that Barr wouldn't appoint a special prosecutor.




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Democrats issue dramatic last-minute warning they could try to REMOVE Trump lawyer from trial team

House impeachment managers wrote White House counsel Cipollone just hours before Trump's trial was set to begin to tell him he may be a 'material witness' to the trial.




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Democrats cook up dramatic witness swap deal at Donald Trump's impeachment trial

An idea under consideration by Senate Democrats would allow for testimony by Joe Biden or the former vice president's son in exchange for former security advisor John Bolton.




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Ukrainian powerlifter carries a 55-stone COW on his shoulders in bizarre show of strength

Dmitry Khaladzhi, 40, has lifted a 55-stone cow for more a minute near Moscow. The powerlifter, of Ukraine, claims to hold 63 Guinness World Records.




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Rudy Giuliani claims he is going to release 'evidence' against Joe and Hunter Biden

Rudy Giuliani threatened on Thursday to go public with evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden made 'millions' in the Ukraine by 'selling public office.'  He offered no timeline nor proof of his charge.




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Giuliani claims he'll release evidence TODAY of Biden-Ukraine corruption

Rudy Giuliani promised in a rambling Fox News interview to release shocking 'evidence' regarding Ukraine corruption that he claims will prompt a probe into both Bidens.




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Rudy Giuliani blows past his own deadline to provide 'evidence' that Joe Biden was corrupt

The president's personal counsel - who is not part of his impeachment defense in the Senate - had told Fox News he would offer evidence at noon Friday, but his new podcast had no new facts.




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Senators are baffled by half-empty spectator gallery at impeachment trial

US Senators on both sides of the aisle were surprised the chamber's spectator gallery was at least half-empty throughout the first week on President Donald Trump's ongoing impeachment trial.




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I NEVER discussed military aid to Ukraine with Donald Trump claims Rudy Giuliani

Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tore into former security advisor John Bolton as a 'swamp creature' and a 'back stabber' as senators weigh calling Bolton as a witness.




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Senate REJECTS calling witnesses to Donald Trump's impeachment trial trial

The Senate voted to reject a Democratic call to hear from witnesses at President Trump's impeachment trial - but took a long pause and agreed to a final vote at 4pm on Wednesday.




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Fungi that EATS radiation could be used like a 'sun block' for humans to protect against deadly rays

In 1991, five years after the disaster which rocked Ukraine, the black fungi was found sprouting up the walls of the abandoned reactor which had been flooded with gamma.




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Lindsey Graham goes after media for not scrutinizing Joe and Hunter Biden enough during impeachment

Lindsey Graham took a hit at the press Sunday, claiming media outlets didn't scrutinize Joe and Hunter Biden enough for potential corruption in Ukraine.