Segments From This Episode

• When home becomes office, day care and school all at once

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  Kids, spouses and roommates are adding stress to unconventional work arrangements.

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• Some must go to work, as others work remotely to avoid COVID-19 exposure

  by Jasmine Garsd

  

  Firefighters, health workers, paramedics, sanitation workers and others still need to go out to do their jobs.

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• More and more people are being laid off. How far might unemployment go?

  by Marielle Segarra

  

  As unemployment climbs, it gets harder for the economy to come back.

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• Stimulus without debt?

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  If policymakers are too preoccupied with debt to provide the country the stimulus it needs, some economists say: Do it without debt.

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• The community college administrator dealing with COVID-19 disruption at work and at home

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  The disruption of education over the past few weeks affects every member of Derrick Lindstrom’s family.

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• West Texas oil patch girds for bust as crude price craters toward $20 a barrel

  by Scott Tong

  

  The Permian Basin region, anchored by the towns of Midland and Odessa, has survived past shakeouts, but some think this could resemble the crash of the 1980s.

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