Feb 10, 2020

Wuhan virus workplace woes

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What can we read into President's new budget as we head closer to the election? The spreading coronavirus is starting to wreak havoc on the Chinese economy. How businesses are addressing worker safety and morale during the outbreak.

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Elections 2020

A president's budget can signal campaign priorities in an election year

by Meghan McCarty Carino

Feb 10, 2020

Budgets offer a chance to project good times and appeal to certain constituencies.

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Orlando, Florida, to officially launch his 2020 campaign on June 18, 2019.

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COVID-19

What employers need to know about the coronavirus

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon

Feb 10, 2020

"You don't want to negligently or knowingly expose your workforce to a novel infection like a coronavirus," Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University told Marketplace's

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Jonathan Frewin Producer, BBC

Daniel Shin Producer

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Meredith Garretson Morbey Senior Producer

Erika Soderstrom Producer

Rose Conlon Producer

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