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Here's what the crescendo of unemployment sounds like

by Kai Ryssdal and Alli Fam
Jun 24, 2020
Jordan Wirfs-Brock "sonified" data from unemployment claims to give us another way to process historic job losses.
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Mental health spending may be up because of COVID-19

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jun 24, 2020
Some employers are adding new options related to wellness to their health care offerings.
Almost a third of workers surveyed had accessed or planned to access mental health care during the pandemic.
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How Asian-owned businesses are weathering the pandemic

by Kimberly Adams
Jun 24, 2020
While Black owned businesses were worst hit, those owned by Asian people were close behind.
A view of New York's Chinatown in 2019. A study found that Asian-owned companies have been among the hardest hit economically by the pandemic.
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As pandemic worsens, will restaurants need to pull back again?

by Marielle Segarra
Jun 24, 2020
Small restaurants are at the greatest risk if put under new restrictions.
A Los Angeles restaurant worker wears a face covering and gloves for handling takeout orders, accompanied by pandemic-safety instructions.
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The IMF predicts the global economy will shrink by 5% this year

by Justin Ho
Jun 24, 2020
That means fewer jobs and more debt. And the U.S. may be in for even worse.
A man passes graffiti about the coronavirus in Beirut, Lebanon. The IMF is predicting a world-wide downturn of 5% as people spend less money while stuck at home due to COVID-19.
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Who’s getting access to COVID-19 testing?

by Janet Nguyen
Jun 24, 2020
Different areas of the U.S. have ramped up testing, but it’s not enough.
Workers wearing personal protective equipment host drive-thru testing for the COVID-19 in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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Which businesses got PPP loans? Probably those that needed them the least, researchers say.

by David Brancaccio , Nova Safo , Rose Conlon and Alex Schroeder
Jun 24, 2020
Because loan amounts were based on how much companies pay their employees, lower-income workers got less money.
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Child care, an industry struggling even before COVID-19, now in dire need

by Erika Beras
Jun 24, 2020
About 350,000 child care workers are currently out of a job.
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As J.C. Penney liquidates merchandise, other retailers scramble to compete

by Andy Uhler
Jun 24, 2020
Department stores have to move inventory quickly, and that can be tough if there's a liquidation sale going on next door.
J.C. Penney filed for bankruptcy in May.
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Global trade was down 18.5% in May. And that's the good news.

by Kimberly Adams
Jun 23, 2020
The World Trade Organization says things could have been far worse.
Cranes stand idle at the nation's busiest shipping port, the Port of Los Angeles. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, trade halted.
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