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Pandemic relief
Can pandemic relief money help schools bring kids up to speed academically?
Oct 26, 2022
National reading and math scores are way down. But school leaders say it can be hard to put all that money toward instruction.
Small businesses push back on plan to redirect COVID relief funds
by
Lily Jamali
Apr 19, 2022
The Biden administration, pressured to avoid new spending, may reallocate the money to pandemic health care needs.
Most of the nearly 70,000 housing vouchers Congress authorized last year remain unused
Feb 14, 2022
The pandemic response program provided billions of dollars that were meant to help get unhoused people into permanent housing.
For small businesses, this fourth COVID wave feels different
Jan 24, 2022
For one thing, more people are sick. For another, government aid has dried up.
UK government aids battered hospitality businesses, but is it enough?
Dec 30, 2021
Hotels, restaurants, pubs and clubs suffered in December, normally a strong season, due to the pandemic and may need more help.
Omicron will disrupt staffing in more than just the airline industry
Dec 27, 2021
With the expiration of federally mandated COVID sick leave and related tax incentives, businesses are on their own.
We're back to saving less
by
Matt Levin
Dec 23, 2021
The personal savings rate dropped in November to its lowest level since December 2017.
For public good, not for profit.
How government spending can affect inflation
Dec 20, 2021
What's the link between government funding for aid and new programs and that 6.8% inflation rate?
Consumer prices are growing faster than they have in 30 years
by
Andy Uhler
Nov 24, 2021
The Fed's preferred means of measuring inflation jumped 0.6% in October.
"We simply must pay our bills": Janet Yellen on debt, inflation, infrastructure and what the economy needs
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Andie Corban
Nov 9, 2021
The Treasury secretary doesn't see a 1970s-style inflation shock on the horizon. "The Federal Reserve wouldn’t permit that to happen."