Mar 18, 2020

How work has changed under COVID-19

Essential jobs, like sanitation services and firefighters, can't be done from home. Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

Today, we're looking at the layoffs, the workers adjusting to being home all day and the folks who still have to go out and risk spreading the virus, sometimes for minimum wage.

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Parenting in a Pandemic

When home becomes office, day care and school all at once

by Meghan McCarty Carino

Mar 18, 2020

Kids, spouses and roommates are adding stress to unconventional work arrangements.

Designating time for each parent to work or watch the kids could help while working from home.

Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

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COVID-19

Some must go to work, as others work remotely to avoid COVID-19 exposure

by Jasmine Garsd

Mar 18, 2020

Firefighters, health workers, paramedics, sanitation workers and others still need to go out to do their jobs.

Essential jobs, like sanitation services and firefighters, can't be done from home.

Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

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COVID-19

More and more people are being laid off. How far might unemployment go?

by Marielle Segarra

Mar 18, 2020

As unemployment climbs, it gets harder for the economy to come back.

Scott Barbour/Getty Images

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COVID-19

Stimulus without debt?

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Mar 18, 2020

If policymakers are too preoccupied with debt to provide the country the stimulus it needs, some economists say: Do it without debt.

Can the government just print more money to stimulate the economy?

Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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United States of Work

The community college administrator dealing with COVID-19 disruption at work and at home

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

Mar 18, 2020

The disruption of education over the past few weeks affects every member of Derrick Lindstrom's family.

Caroline Yang

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COVID-19

West Texas oil patch girds for bust as crude price craters toward $20 a barrel

by Scott Tong

Mar 18, 2020

The Permian Basin region, anchored by the towns of Midland and Odessa, has survived past shakeouts, but some think this could resemble the crash of the 1980s.

Joe Raedle/Newsmakers

Music from the episode

Closer The Chainsmokers, Halsey

Som transparents El Petit De Cal Eril

Wind Travel Richard Houghten

Bonita Applebum A Tribe Called Quest

Preservation - Instrumental Wu-Tang Clan

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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