Segments From This Episode

• Stores and restaurants are reopening, but should you go back?

  by Marielle Segarra

  

  An informal Twitter survey shows that safety concerns stirred by the pandemic are keeping people away.

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• Fighting housing insecurity, one video conference at a time

  by Amy Scott

  

  A 40-year-old program for low-income Atlantans goes virtual.

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• How many furloughed workers will return to their jobs? Many are optimistic

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  The longer you’re laid off, the more likely it is to become permament.

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• USDA announces food distribution program, but will it help farmers?

  by Jasmine Garsd

  

  The Farmers to Families Food Box Program will begin distributing $1.2 billion in surplus food to communities across the country.

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• Why is it so hard for the government to buy PPE?

  by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal

  

  ProPublica’s David McSwane said brokers are trying to profit off of unprecedented demand for face masks.

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• This flower company survived Mother’s Day, but the future remains uncertain

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  “If there’s a recession on the horizon, we’re all just going to be at the mercy of what that looks like,” said Christina Stembel, CEO of Farmgirl Flowers.

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