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Will rock-bottom gas prices spur holiday travel despite pandemic?

by Justin Ho
Dec 21, 2020
AAA estimates that 34 million fewer people will travel Christmas week than last year at this time.
One industry analyst predicts that Christmas Day gas prices are likely to be at their lowest levels since 2015.
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Doctors are leaving medicine because of the pandemic

by Samantha Fields
Dec 18, 2020
Eight percent of doctors have closed their practices because of COVID-19, and a quarter are considering retiring early.
“It feels like the water I was swimming in has turned into molasses,” said one doctor of working during the pandemic.
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Fed pandemic lending programs a sticking point in COVID relief talks

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Dec 18, 2020
Some Senate Republicans want a new COVID relief bill to prohibit the Fed from restarting pandemic lending programs.
The Fed programs include Main Street business loans and purchases of corporate and municipal bonds. Pictured: Fed Chair Jerome Powell at a House committee hearing on Dec. 2, 2020.
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What we know about the latest plan for more COVID relief

by David Brancaccio , Rose Conlon , Erika Soderstrom and Alex Schroeder
Dec 18, 2020
Direct payments in the range of $600 and extra unemployment benefits around $300 per week are on the table.
"What we really need in this package is a bridge to when the weather is warmer and the vaccines are disseminated," says Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
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Property crimes are down since the pandemic began

by Jasmine Garsd
Dec 18, 2020
Crime rates usually go up when the economy is bad. But not when there's low inflation.
When things like food or gas get more expensive and people are out of work, there’s more crime. But right now? Inflation is low.
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Even with more stimulus, analysts forecast a slow economic recovery

by Mitchell Hartman
Dec 17, 2020
COVID-19 is surging, layoffs are rising, consumers are hunkering down. Not a great place to be heading into 2021.
A closed bar in New York at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Why hasn't Congress fixed unemployment insurance?

by Kai Ryssdal and Alli Fam
Dec 17, 2020
Congress was able to pass the CARES Act quickly, but its benefits expire Dec. 26. Will they be extended?
Congress has known what's wrong with unemployment insurance for decades.
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What's happening to the makers of holiday party attire?

by Marielle Segarra
Dec 17, 2020
There's an entire supply chain behind that sparkly dress.
Sparkly, sequined dresses for New Year's Eve? Not this year.
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Unemployment claims up again, hitting nearly 900,000 last week

by Associated Press
Dec 17, 2020
Nine months after the viral pandemic first paralyzed the economy, many employers are still slashing jobs.
A diner sits closed in Brooklyn on Dec. 9 in New York City.
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Mall Santas are doing things a little differently this year

by Emily Siner
Dec 17, 2020
There are fewer lines, mandatory masks, socially distanced photo-ops and even video calls with Santa.
At the Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, no one sits on Santa Claus’ chair this year except the man himself.
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