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Challenges to performing arts mount with fall season uncertain

by Kristin Schwab
Jun 10, 2020
Fall season is usually a big money-maker for nonprofit arts companies. The pandemic is threatening that crucial revenue stream.
The New York Philharmonic performs in 2018. About 40% of revenue for performing-arts nonprofits comes from live events.
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Scientific research stopped for COVID-19. Now it's trying to get back into gear.

by Erika Beras
Jun 10, 2020
When the pandemic hit, scientists halted experiments and euthanized research animals. Now they're trying to pick up where they left off.
A lab technician works on a coronavirus test. Many labs pursuing other types of research went into lockdown.
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Will the federal government extend the extra COVID-19 unemployment benefits?

by David Brancaccio , Nancy Marshall-Genzer and Alex Schroeder
Jun 10, 2020
Democrats want to extend the additional $600 a week through 2021.
U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, right, does not want to extend the extra benefits past July.
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Discover says fewer people are opting to defer credit card payments

by Justin Ho
Jun 10, 2020
Will banks that offered forbearance see more customer loyalty down the road?
In the long run, it might be better for customers' financial health to pay off credit debt instead of deferring those payments.
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COVID-19 could devastate nation's youth when it comes to school, work, new report finds

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Jun 10, 2020
"Disconnected youth" are neither attending school nor working. COVID-19 could push the youth disconnection rate to 1 in 5 young people.
"All of us pay a high price for youth disconnection," says Measure of America's Kristen Lewis, "because it leads to lower tax revenues, reduced competitiveness as a nation, higher health and criminal justice costs and much more."
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Pandemic may be a turning point for oil business, executives and analysts say

by Scott Tong
Jun 9, 2020
With carbon emissions and air pollution plummeting during the lockdown, experts question whether we'll return to our old driving and flying habits.
Oil storage tanks in Carson, California. The use of fossil fuels dropped during the lockdown, and supplies piled up.
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How one college is planning to reopen campus in the fall, amid COVID-19

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Jun 9, 2020
Beloit College's pandemic response includes overhauling the academic calendar.
Along with changing its academic calendar, Beloit College is planning to give students single rooms and limit class sizes to 10.
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It's official: We're in a recession

by Justin Ho
Jun 9, 2020
In the past, the National Bureau of Economic Research has watched an economic decline for longer before declaring a recession. But this is no ordinary contraction.
Shuttered stores in downtown Los Angeles in April.
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Mortgages in forbearance drop for the first time since March

by Amy Scott
Jun 8, 2020
But not everyone who needs relief may be getting it.
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How’s the economy? vs. how’s the economy for each of us?

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jun 8, 2020
If you want to answer the second question, you’ve got to 'disaggregate' the data.
Macroeconomic data can help you see the big picture — the forest. But if you want to understand how groups within the economy are doing, examine the trees.
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