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== US Economic News == | == US Economic News == | ||
| + | * 08 MAY 2020 [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/highest-unemployment-rate-great-depression/611398/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share It’s the Pandemic, Stupid] - the pandemic, not the shutdown, caused the economic crisis | ||
| + | * 07 MAY 2020 [https://www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage/2020/May/covid-19-is-changing-the-route-of-illicit-drug-flows--says-unodc-report.html?utm_source=morning_brew UN: COVID-19 is changing the route of illicit drug flows, says UNODC report] | ||
| + | * 07 MAY 2020 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/07/sba-disaster-loans/ SBA slashes disaster-loan limit from $2 million to $150,000, shuts out nearly all new applicants from The Washington Post] | ||
| + | * 05 MAY 2020 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-06/u-s-meat-workers-are-quitting-as-virus-ridden-plants-reopen American Meat Workers Are Starting to Quit With Plants Reopening] | ||
| + | * 05 MAY 2020 [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-usda-meat-inspectors-3-dead-covid-19/ 3 USDA meat inspectors dead, about 145 diagnosed with COVID-19] | ||
* 04 MAY 2020 [https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-vp-quits-employee-activist-firings-saying-designed-create-climate-fear/ Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’] | * 04 MAY 2020 [https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-vp-quits-employee-activist-firings-saying-designed-create-climate-fear/ Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’] | ||
* 03 MAY 2020 [https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-agriculture/2020/04/03/coronavirus-pushes-farm-labor-failings-into-spotlight-786635 Coronavirus pushes farm labor failings into spotlight] | * 03 MAY 2020 [https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-agriculture/2020/04/03/coronavirus-pushes-farm-labor-failings-into-spotlight-786635 Coronavirus pushes farm labor failings into spotlight] | ||
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* 25 MAR 2020 [https://economicstrategygroup.org/resource/economic-strategy-group-statement-covid19/ Economic Strategy Group Statement on COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis] | * 25 MAR 2020 [https://economicstrategygroup.org/resource/economic-strategy-group-statement-covid19/ Economic Strategy Group Statement on COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis] | ||
* 24 MAR 2020 [https://www.teenvogue.com/story/coronavirus-pandemic-failures-capitalism?fbclid=IwAR2eAiXA-awkJJ4KyYOqUhIdUG7bsMbiPBz_5od5TmBOEo4QnRTudR52yLk The Coronavirus Pandemic Demonstrates the Failures of Capitalism] | * 24 MAR 2020 [https://www.teenvogue.com/story/coronavirus-pandemic-failures-capitalism?fbclid=IwAR2eAiXA-awkJJ4KyYOqUhIdUG7bsMbiPBz_5od5TmBOEo4QnRTudR52yLk The Coronavirus Pandemic Demonstrates the Failures of Capitalism] | ||
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| + | == General Workforce News == | ||
| + | * 19 MAY 2020 [https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveandriole/2020/05/19/mckinsey-accenture-and-everyone-is-right-about-digital-life-after-covid-19-but-were-not-ready/#a28697f3e7e3 McKinsey, Accenture And Everyone Is Right About Digital Life After COVID-19. But We’re Not Ready.] | ||
| + | * 11 MAY 2020 [https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a32378660/book-industry-authors-surviving-coronavirus/ Inside the Book Industry's Battle to Stay Afloat During the COVID-19 Crisis] - Authors, readers, booksellers, and publishers have become more tightly-knit than ever to outlast a global pandemic. | ||
| + | * 05 MAY 2020 [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/business/pandemic-work-from-home-coronavirus.html What if You Don’t Want to Go Back to the Office?] | ||
| + | * 04 MAY 2020 [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/health/coronavirus-office-makeover.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article The Pandemic May Mean the End of the Open-Floor Office] | ||
| + | * 01 MAY 2020 [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/us/coronavirus-reopening-workers.html Your Life or Your Livelihood: Americans Wrestle With Impossible Choice] | ||
| + | * 27 APR 2020 [https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/interview-with-heidi-oley-owner-of-atlantas-chroma-salon.html I’m Reopening My Hair Salon, and I’m Terrified] | ||
==Healthcare & Medical Workforce== | ==Healthcare & Medical Workforce== | ||
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== Jobs and Unemployment News == | == Jobs and Unemployment News == | ||
| + | * 07 MAY 2020 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/07/nearly-80-percent-laid-off-workers-believe-they-will-return-their-old-job-post-ipsos-poll-finds/ Over 33 million Americans lost their job during the pandemic. 77 percent believe they’ll get it back, Post-Ipsos poll finds.] | ||
* 23 APR 2020 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/23/economy-coronavirus-unemployment/ 4.4 million Americans sought jobless benefits last week, as economic pain continued across the United States] | * 23 APR 2020 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/23/economy-coronavirus-unemployment/ 4.4 million Americans sought jobless benefits last week, as economic pain continued across the United States] | ||
* 22 APR 2020 [https://www.wabe.org/report-officials-need-to-act-to-protect-pre-k-quality/ Report: Officials Need To Act To Protect Pre-K Quality] | * 22 APR 2020 [https://www.wabe.org/report-officials-need-to-act-to-protect-pre-k-quality/ Report: Officials Need To Act To Protect Pre-K Quality] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:42, 21 May 2020
Contents
US Economic News
- 08 MAY 2020 It’s the Pandemic, Stupid - the pandemic, not the shutdown, caused the economic crisis
- 07 MAY 2020 UN: COVID-19 is changing the route of illicit drug flows, says UNODC report
- 07 MAY 2020 SBA slashes disaster-loan limit from $2 million to $150,000, shuts out nearly all new applicants from The Washington Post
- 05 MAY 2020 American Meat Workers Are Starting to Quit With Plants Reopening
- 05 MAY 2020 3 USDA meat inspectors dead, about 145 diagnosed with COVID-19
- 04 MAY 2020 Amazon VP quits over employee firings, saying they were ‘designed to create a climate of fear’
- 03 MAY 2020 Coronavirus pushes farm labor failings into spotlight
- 01 MAY 2020 OPINION: COVID-19 Stimulus Must Help Farmers Rebuild Our Broken Food System—Not Prop Up Big Ag
- 30 APR 2020 Crisis begins to hit professional and public-sector jobs once considered safe
- 30 APR 2020 'Tip Of The Iceberg': Economy Shrinks At 4.8% Pace, But Worst Is Yet To Come
- 29 APR 2020 Coronavirus: Trump orders meatpacking plants to stay open
- 29 APR 2020 The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever
- 27 APR 2020 Boeing CEO says air travel recovery could take two to three years; board wins approval
- 27 APR 2020 Apple Delays Mass Production of 2020 Flagship iPhones
- 24 APR 2020 How wiping out $1.5 trillion in student debt would boost the economy
- 23 APR 2020 Europe's Economy Was Hit Hard Too, But Jobs Didn't Disappear Like In The U.S.
- 23 APR 2020 Blood-pressure drugs are in the crosshairs of COVID-19 research
- 23 APR 2020 Essential workers are taking care of America. Are we taking care of them?
- 22 APR 2020 Top economist: US coronavirus response is like 'third world' country - Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression
- 21 APR 2020 Corporate America seeks legal protection for when coronavirus lockdowns lift
- 21 APR 2020 Poll: 43 percent of Americans have lost jobs or wages due to coronavirus outbreak
- 20 APR 2020 Revealed: nearly 100 US transit workers have died of Covid-19 amid lack of basic protections
- 19 APR 2020 In new poll, 60 percent support keeping stay-at-home restrictions to fight coronavirus
- "Fifty-eight percent say they are more worried about stopping the virus' spread, while 32 percent are more concerned with the economic fallout, a new NBC News/WSJ poll shows."
- 19 APR 2020 EMPLOYEES SAY SMITHFIELD PLANT IN WISCONSIN CONCEALED COVID-19 INFECTIONS, PRESSURED THEM TO WORK ELBOW-TO-ELBOW WITHOUT PROTECTION
- 17 APR 2020 Paycheck Protection Program out of money: Thousands of small businesses shut out
- 16 APR 2020 At Least 22 Million Americans Are Out Of A Job — And We Haven’t Hit Bottom
- 16 APR 2020 Glitches prevent $1,200 stimulus checks from reaching millions of Americans
- 16 APR 2020 Millions of Americans could lose stimulus payments to debt collectors
- 14 APR 2020 Why Are Rich Americans Getting $1.7 Million Stimulus Checks?
- 14 APR 2020 Plant Closures Threaten U.S. Meat Supplies
- “For those earning $1 million annually, a tax break buried in the recent coronavirus relief legislation is so generous that its total cost is more than total new funding for all hospitals in America and more than the total provided to all state and local governments,”
- 02 APR 2020 “I Think the Recovery Is Going to Be Quite Rapid”: Grim As It Is Now, Larry Summers Guesses Recovery Could Be Faster Than Anticipated
- 25 MAR 2020 ESG on COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis
- The Economic Strategy Group (ESG), a non-profit program of the Aspen Institute, is composed of a diverse, bipartisan group of distinguished leaders and thinkers with the goal of promoting evidence-based solutions to significant U.S. economic challenges
- 25 MAR 2020 Economic Strategy Group Statement on COVID-19 Pandemic and Economic Crisis
- 24 MAR 2020 The Coronavirus Pandemic Demonstrates the Failures of Capitalism
General Workforce News
- 19 MAY 2020 McKinsey, Accenture And Everyone Is Right About Digital Life After COVID-19. But We’re Not Ready.
- 11 MAY 2020 Inside the Book Industry's Battle to Stay Afloat During the COVID-19 Crisis - Authors, readers, booksellers, and publishers have become more tightly-knit than ever to outlast a global pandemic.
- 05 MAY 2020 What if You Don’t Want to Go Back to the Office?
- 04 MAY 2020 The Pandemic May Mean the End of the Open-Floor Office
- 01 MAY 2020 Your Life or Your Livelihood: Americans Wrestle With Impossible Choice
- 27 APR 2020 I’m Reopening My Hair Salon, and I’m Terrified
Healthcare & Medical Workforce
- 05 MAY 2020 New bill would forgive medical school debt for COVID-19 health workers
- 01 APR 2020 An Ethicist on How to Make Impossible Decisions
- 31 MAR 2020 Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out About Lack of Gear
- 30 MAR 2020 I'm a Doctor Recovering From COVID-19. I Can't Get Over the Government's Callousness for Human Life
- 25 MAR 2020 Doctors And Nurses Say More People Are Dying Of COVID-19 In The US Than We Know
- 19 MAR 2020 COVID-19 exposes the precarious state of rural health care in the South
Jobs and Unemployment News
- 07 MAY 2020 Over 33 million Americans lost their job during the pandemic. 77 percent believe they’ll get it back, Post-Ipsos poll finds.
- 23 APR 2020 4.4 million Americans sought jobless benefits last week, as economic pain continued across the United States
- 22 APR 2020 Report: Officials Need To Act To Protect Pre-K Quality
- 22 APR 2020 Fear Of Corornavirus Not A Reason To Qualify For Unemployement In Georgia
- 21 APR 2020 Poll: 43 percent of Americans have lost jobs or wages due to coronavirus outbreak
- 30 MAR 2020 ‘The Strike Wave Is in Full Swing’: Amazon, Whole Foods Workers Walk Off Job to Protest Unjust and Unsafe Labor Practices
- 24 MAR 2020 Every Employer Considers Itself ‘Essential’ In The Coronavirus Pandemic
