Segments From This Episode

• What to expect from second quarter earnings reports this year

  Now that corporate earnings season is here, Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal explains what to expect from what might be the strangest corporate earnings season we’re ever going to get.

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• Local governments and companies encourage masks in absence of federal policy

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  New York, California and Oregon have put out public service ads to get people to wear masks.

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• How the virus devastated workers in a Brooklyn neighborhood

  by Jasmine Garsd

  

  Brownsville, where 80% of residents are Black, had an infection rate in May that was more than twice the New York City average.

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• An algorithm determines gig workers’ pay — and they don’t like it

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  Gig workers’ livelihoods are increasingly ruled by mysterious — and unpredictable — software.

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• Energy sector woes muddying the future of sand mines

  by Andy Uhler

  

  Sand is an important material used in fracking for oil and gas. When prices dive and oil companies cut costs, sand mines shut down.

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• Lifeguards, veterinary assistants and architects: a look at some of the jobs protected by PPP loans

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  About 75% of small businesses sought Paycheck Protection Program loans and about 72% of them got PPP loans, according to the Census Bureau.

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• For a Honduran textile factory, the pandemic means uncertainty

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

  

  Amid the global pandemic, even supply chains get sick. The director of a polyester yarn factory in Honduras describes how COVID-19 is affecting business.

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