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FILE – In this June 4, 2012, file photo, an unidentified 11-year-old girl logs into Facebook on her iPhone at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

You’ve decided to quit Facebook. Here’s how to migrate your online life elsewhere

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Jniya Tallie, a graduate assistant with the Jackson State women’s basketball team, fiddles with her vaccination card after receiving her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at an open COVID-19 vaccination site sponsored by the university and the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

You’re going to be asked to prove your vaccination status. Here’s how to do it.

Real Estate

Developer Ken Tousley, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021 in Seattle, inside his finished apartment building addition at the firebox area. During a media tour, Tousley points to the sprinkler system while waiting for a fire inspection so he can open. 218406

New apartments are built, but renters can’t get in. Here’s what is causing the logjam in Seattle

Retail

An ultrarealistic split-unit air-conditioner in its capsule, made by Toys Cabin, is displayed in the company’s offices in Shizuoka, Japan, on Sept. 17, 2021. Isolated in their plastic spheres, the popular, pint-size reproductions of everyday items feel like a metaphor for COVID-era life. (Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times)

Tiny toys in capsules become big hit for adults VIEW

Maritime Industry

The U.S. Coast Guard Base in Seattle is seen from the air looking west Sunday, May 9, 2021. Modernization of facilities, as well as expansion is being proposed into terminals to the north and south to accommodate the ice breaker and possibly more cutters. 217082

Coast Guard could triple base size on Seattle waterfront; see the 3 possible options

Boeing & Aerospace

Boeing workers protest against Boeing’s vaccine requirement on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021 outside Boeing’s production plant in Everett.

Workers protest Boeing vaccine mandate near Everett plant

Amazon

Amazon’s downtown Seattle campus is seen Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 after the company announced it is pushing back a return to the office for workers until January 2022. 217842

Amazon employees want to spend some — but not too much — time in the office, internal survey shows

Amazonia

Over a model of the Space Needle and downtown Seattle, where Amazon has helped change the skyline, Amazon recruiters and prospective employees meet a job fair hosted by the company Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Seattle. Amazon is going on a hiring spree. The online shopping giant is holding job fairs across the country, aiming to hire more than 30,000 people by early next year, a 5% bump in its total workforce. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) WAET106

How has working with Amazon affected your life? Here’s how to tell us

Microsoft

FILE – In this Sept. 28, 2021 file photo, people wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus try out the latest iPhone 13 handsets at an Apple Store in Beijing. Amazon’s audiobook service Audible and phone apps for reading the holy books of Islam and Christianity have disappeared from the Apple store in mainland China, in the latest examples of the country’s tightening rules for internet firms. Audible said in a statement Friday, Oct. 15, that it removed its app from the Apple store in mainland China last month “due to permit requirements.” (AP Photo/Andy Wong) NYBZ505 NYBZ505

China crackdown on Apple store hits holy book apps, Audible

Economy

Christopher Smith is a stage hand working on setting up a show at the Paramount Theater in Seattle Friday October 1, 2021. He is back to work as the pandemic lifts — but the end of benefits isn’t what made that happen.

Less ‘ghosting,’ more hiring. Did the end of federal pandemic jobless benefits ‘solve’ the region’s labor crunch?

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Downtown Seattle’s troubles go beyond the pandemic

Money Makeovers

Teri Allen is hoping her finances will enable her to retire when she wants to. Photographed Wednesday, April 21, 2021 216947

She’s worked almost 40 years in one place. Now, can she retire before 65?

Personal Finance

**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before Saturday 3:01 a.m. ET Oct. 2, 2021. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** Start-ups large and small are offering child-friendly debit cards that allow parents to set up guardrails. Picking one depends on your priorities. (Robert Neubecker/The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED YOUR MONEY BY RON LIEBER FOR OCT. 2, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. — XNYT156 XNYT156

They want to hand your kid a debit card. What do you do?

Markets

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stocks end higher, giving S&P 500 its best week since July

Artificial Intelligence

More companies than ever are using software to screen their mountains of job applications, so getting seen by a human recruiter takes some effort. (Kailey Whitman/The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY RESUME SCREENING TIPS BY JULIE WEED FOR MARCH 19, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. — XNYT35 XNYT35

Resume-writing tips to help you get past the screening bots

Local Business

This photo shows a sign at the headquarters for Washington state’s Employment Security Department Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state’s rush to get unemployment benefits to residents who lost jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak left it vulnerable to criminals who made off with hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent claims. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Washington state jobless claims rise as claims nationwide fall

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Tens of thousands of union members and other Italians have gathered in Rome a week after right-wing extremists forced their way into the headquarters of Italy’s most powerful labor confederation. VIEW

Agriculture

Farmer Fernando Enriquez, Sr. looks at one of the stunted, blistered red sweet onion in one of his Walla Walla fields, Wednesday, July 28, 2021.

Heat wave cooked Walla Walla sweet onions to mush

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