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An independent hairstylist reflects on her newfound respect for small-business ownership after a year on her own.

“It's very easy to just stay in your room all day and not let anybody know what's happening to you,” says student AJ Williams.

After a dark year, New York City Accountant Michael Durant says he’s “starting to see light at the end of the tunnel.”

How 2020 changed this new college grad’s priorities.

With mixed messaging coming from the government, community college dean Derrick Lindstrom says acting appropriately comes down personal choices.

Tax accountant Michael Durant is seeing his small business clients through a storm, but facing another at home.

The Belcourt Theatre might be closed, but for its Executive Director Stephanie Silverman, the work goes on.

Neil Cairns, a bartender in Portland, Oregon says he'll just have to "hope for the best" as he faces reduced hours and the prospect of bar closures.

For physician Scott Anzalone of Ohio, the scariest part of the outbreak isn't the illness.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics would categorize Steve’s job as “production, transportation, and material moving” along with butchers, sewing machine operators and furniture makers, to name a few. One in 10 workers in the U.S. labor force are in this category.