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• How Americans are likely to spend the second round of relief checks

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Back in March, many people didn’t spend all of their relief money right away. That may be more difficult this time around.

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• Small businesses still struggling with COVID impacts must consider tax implications, too

  by Justin Ho

  

  Many received PPP loans. And that means new tax questions for 2021 filings.

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• Transit agencies get $14 billion in relief, with ridership still down

  by Andy Uhler

  

  The money will let agencies avoid doomsday scenarios of thousands of layoffs and drastic service cuts.

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• Beef market still feeling the effects of COVID-19

  by Madelyn Beck

  

  Disruptions weren’t as bad as they might have been. But some consumer practices have changed because of the pandemic.

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• Stitching opportunity into crisis can erase pain that needs to be felt

  by Kimberly Adams and Alli Fam

  

  Opportunity and crisis often go hand in hand. Don’t “erase the very human pain that’s at the core,” psychotherapist Megan Devine says.

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• “Sometimes I think to myself why did you have to pick a product that is not only so difficult to make, but so difficult to ship?”

  by Alli Fam

  

  Shipping gelato isn’t easy.

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