Segments From This Episode

• Businesses navigate uncertainty around reopening rules

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  Business owners are calling the NFIB with questions about how different rules work in different states, and sometimes different counties within those states.

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• Many high school seniors in the “class of COVID” are rethinking their college plans

  by Samantha Fields

  

  Some are choosing cheaper schools, taking gap years, or staying closer to home. Others are hoping that, if college is online in the fall, tuition might be lower.

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• How are people managing yard sales in the age of social distancing?

  by Erika Beras

  

  Some states, as they start to reopen, are putting out guidelines for those who want to sell items at garage, stoop and yard sales.

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• Life in a hotel turned homeless shelter

  by Amy Scott and Bennett Purser

  

  A California nonprofit takes on the challenging task of providing support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• For some small businesses, the uncertainties of reopening might be greater than lockdown

  by Alli Fam

  

  A vintage cafe and clothing store adapted to lockdown with a new business model. What will a partial reopening mean?

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• Soap saves countless lives every year. Here’s how it was invented

  by Andie Corban

  

  Cody Cassidy, author of “Who Ate the First Oyster?” said the inventor of soap had no idea about its life-saving potential.

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• Minnesota grapples with returning “snowbirds”

  by Dan Kraker

  

  More than 44,000 people leave in the winter and return in the summer, boosting local economies but raising COVID-19 fears.

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