Daniel Ackerman

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Daniel Ackerman

Jetblue and United are teaming up. The airlines announced a partnership on Thursday to sell each other’s flights and link up their loyalty points programs. It’s the latest move by JetBlue to expand its network of routes. For years, Jetblue has been searching for the one — an airline to partner with, said Richard Aboulafia of AeroDynamic Advisory. “They've been trying to grow. They need to be bigger than they are,” Aboulafia said. Jetblue tried to merge with Spirit Airlines.

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Daniel Ackerman

Just weeks after halting construction on a major offshore wind development off the coast of New York, the Trump administration reversed course last week and allowed the Empire Wind project to proceed. That’s good news for the offshore wind industry, which had already been struggling with elevated financing costs. But with the budget bill under debate in Congress, the industry still faces a difficult political environment.

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Daniel Ackerman

New prevention measures for RSV, a respiratory virus that can be especially harmful to babies, became widely available this past winter. The new measures include a vaccine given in pregnancy and antibodies given to newborns, and they led to a major drop in RSV hospitalizations among infants, according to a new CDC study. RSV researchers are pretty excited about how well the new interventions have worked.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Daniel Ackerman

The biggest cities in this country are getting even bigger. That’s according to new Census Bureau data, showing that almost every major urban center gained population from 2023 to 2024. Most big cities shrank early in the pandemic, when a lot of people opted for suburbs and rural areas with more open space. Cities create a disproportionate share of economic growth in the U.S., said Esteban Moro, director of the urban networks lab at Northeastern University.

3 weeks ago | fdd.org | Daniel Ackerman |Max Lesser

Chinese intelligence moved quickly to take advantage of the mass layoffs of federal workers that began right after the Trump administration took office. On Craigslist.org, a post advertising “Job Opportunities for Recently Laid-Off U.S. Government Employees” appeared on February 6 on the website’s Washington, DC, jobs board. The post links to the website of what is supposedly a consulting services company located in Singapore.