Communities of color and activists have been practicing mutual aid for a long time. But it has become much more widespread recently.
One change: Businesses will have more time to spend their loans and still qualify for forgiveness.
Almost 469,000 workers in K-12 public education lost a job in just the month of April.
Rehiring may be offsetting some of the layoffs, but unemployment is still excessively high.
“Going back to normal would be disastrous for Black Americans,” says Andre M. Perry of the Brookings Institution.
The loans will be bigger than those from the Paycheck Protection Program — and they can’t be forgiven.
Some major health systems say they are sitting on millions of dollars in billing.
Given the country’s high death rate, Sweden and its health officials are rethinking how they have handled the pandemic.
We check in with two people whose employment has been disrupted by the pandemic.
And more job losses are likely on the way.
