Mar 25, 2020

Is this country ready for 2.5 million jobless claims in a week?

Tomorrow's first-time unemployment claim numbers are expected to be exponentially higher than a typical week. John Moore/Getty Images

Plus: What a 90-day tariff deferral would do for the people paying (that's us).

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COVID-19

Unemployment claims are soaring. Are the states ready for the onslaught?

by Mitchell Hartman

Mar 25, 2020

More than one million Americans are expected to have filed for benefits last week, with more on the way.

Victor J. Blue/Getty Images

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COVID-19

Laid-off workers now worry about health care during health crisis

by Meghan McCarty Carino

Mar 25, 2020

The majority of Americans get employer-sponsored health insurance so what happens when that goes away?

One employer said he "just wanted to make sure that everybody’s taken care of through this."

Mario Tama/Getty Images

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How a mortgage broker is dealing with an ailing market

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal

Mar 25, 2020

Los Angeles mortgage broker Vivian Gueler is expecting a drop in the value of real estate.

Scott Barbour/Getty Images

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Despite reports, trade adviser denies plans to suspend tariffs

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Mar 25, 2020

And if Beijing reciprocates, U.S. farmers might get a boost from rising exports to China.

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COVID-19

A hair stylist choosing between her livelihood and flattening the curve

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

Mar 25, 2020

Ashley Nelson wasn’t forced to stop working, but she decided to anyway.

Ashley Nelson, a hair stylist at the Collab Salon in Boise, Idaho, recently decided to stop taking appointments because of COVID-19.

Arlie Sommer

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Using familiar faces could eventually open Detroit’s doors for census takers

by Quinn Klinefelter

Mar 25, 2020

The bureau is using workers people know or can identify with for house calls.

Detroit has a large Muslim population, and some imams have been stressing just how much federal funding depends on them taking the census. Above, a billboard advertising the 2020 Census in Arabic.

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Music from the episode

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer John Lee Hooker

This Must Be The Place Sure Sure

Slide (feat. Frank Ocean & Migos) Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean, Migos

To the Sun and All the Cities in Between City of the Sun

The World Is Ours Funky DL

Feel Your Weight - Poolside Remix Rhye, Poolside

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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