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• New York state announced plans on Wednesday to eject oil and gas stocks from its $226 billion financial portfolio, becoming the first U
• state and the biggest pension fund anywhere to divest from fossil fuels
• By 2025, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, which disburses some $1 billion in benefits to retirees each year, will sell off its “riskiest” oil and gas stocks, following a review set to begin next year, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Wednesday morning

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• Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard said Sunday that they are investigating their business relationship with Pornhub after a prominent newspaper columnist alleged that the pornographic website shows videos of rape and underage sex
• Nicholas Kristof, opinion columnist at The New York Times, wrote Friday that Pornhub carries rape scenes, revenge pornography and other examples of explicit video taken without consent of the participants
• In a statement to The Associated Press on Sunday, Pornhub said it is “irresponsible and flagrantly untrue’’ to suggest that it allows images of the sexual abuse of children on its site

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• WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers scaled back their hiring last month as the viral pandemic accelerated across the country, adding 245,000 jobs, the fewest since April and the fifth straight monthly slowdown
• At the same time, the unemployment rate to a still-high 6
• 9% in October, the Labor Department said

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• NEW YORK ― On a foggy October afternoon, a strange vessel chugged slowly through the East River’s mist toward Roosevelt Island
• It looked almost like it was upside down: three 16-foot rotors, attached on a triangular metal base, sat motionless atop the deck of the rusted barge
• They resembled propellers, but weren’t there to give the boat thrust

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• Conversations around diversity and inclusion can be uncomfortable — particularly in the workplace
• In this new podcast, host Y-Vonne Hutchinson — CEO and founder of ReadySet, a diversity and inclusion consulting and strategy firm — speaks with business leaders who are driving discussions within their organizations and taking bold action to advance and accelerate change
• Working with CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion — the largest coalition of CEOs who’ve pledged to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace — Hutchinson discusses topics such as allyship, intersectional divides and mental health inclusion with C-suite leaders who are showing their organizations and their industries that now is the time to act on diversity and inclusion

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• The corporate lawyer-turned-executive grew up in Beaumont, Texas, just a short drive from a town called Vidor — a former white supremacist stronghold known as a sundown town
• “If you were Black, you knew not to be caught in that town after dark
• I was acutely aware of what that town represented, particularly as it relates to Black people