Segments From This Episode

• States are trying to build armies of coronavirus contact tracers

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  But public health departments have been chronically underfunded.

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• How economists are keeping up in the fast-paced COVID-19 recession

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  Quarterly and monthly data, like GDP and the unemployment rate, don’t really give us a picture of what is happening today.

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• How much is a human life worth?

  by Howard Steven Friedman

  

  Civil courts, for-profit companies and regulators regularly put price tags on human lives. But how?

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• Upper Midwest, Great Plains states have fared best in SBA emergency loan program

  by Justin Ho

  

  As Congress weighs a new round of funding, data reveal that the upper Midwest and Great Plains regions benefited the most from the first round of PPP funding.

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• First the virus, then the oil crash, hit Midland, Texas

  by Andy Uhler

  

  Midland, Texas, is ground zero for oil and gas production in the U.S., and much of the local economy, in some way or another, is tied to the industry. When West Texas Intermediate went negative for the first time ever on Monday, everybody in Midland felt it — on top of the coronavirus. This morning […]

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• Army of 3D printers battles Britain’s shortage of PPE

  

  Machines churn out face visors for health workers running short of personal protection gear.

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• Businesses adapt to the pandemic by moving online

  by Alli Fam

  

  We hear from a pair of children’s entertainers and a doctor.

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