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COVID-19: 5 Years On

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Futurist couldn't predict our inability to plan for the future

Mar 13, 2025
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After pandemic turmoil and subsidies, airlines have had a soft landing

by Daniel Ackerman
Mar 12, 2025
Five years after COVID grounded carriers, leisure travel has fared better than the business segment. Supply chains aren't fully rebuilt.
A worker disinfects an airplane cabin between flights in May 2020. Since then, the industry has largely recovered, though some troubles persist.
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The pandemic made teachers learn to love tech

Mar 12, 2025
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Unpacking our collective COVID-19 trauma, five years on

Mar 11, 2025
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Five years on, how has the COVID-19 pandemic shaped the economy?

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Ariana Rosas
Mar 11, 2025
Pavlina Tcherneva at Bard College says that COVID provided an opportunity to rethink the labor market, health care and housing — but we missed that opportunity.
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Keeping remote workers close to the action

Mar 11, 2025
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How the pandemic gave a huge boost to wastewater virus tracking

Mar 10, 2025
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How excess deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Social Security

by Daniel Ackerman
Feb 19, 2025
The National Bureau of Economic Research found the number of deaths was large enough to result in a net increase to the Social Security fund.
Above, a COVID-19 memorial on the National Mall in 2021. Excess deaths were so numerous during the pandemic that it's led to a net increase in the Social Security fund.
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What it was like to work at a grocery store during peak COVID

by David Brancaccio and Ariana Rosas
Jan 23, 2025
For our Economic Pulse series, we're taking a closer look at essential workers' experiences during the height of the pandemic.
"We have an industry that employs millions of people to sell the rest of us food, and they can't feed themselves," said writer Ann Larson of grocery store workers.
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