Plus: The ongoing ad boycott at Facebook, arts organizations’ turn to streaming and the June jobs report.
Employment remains below pre-pandemic levels, and as recently reopened businesses re-close, more job losses are on the way.
Some are getting breaks on commercial and residential rent, but it won’t last forever.
The diffusion index, a measure of the breadth of job gains across industries, jumped for the second month in a row.
The show must go on — somehow — for theater and other live productions in order for their companies to survive financially.
More than three months into the pandemic, we check in with Chicago musician Seth Shulman.