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‘I’m very, very worried’: Laid-off workers struggle with no social safety net

By Maeve Reston | Apr 5, 2020 (CNN) — For more than a year on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential contenders spoke at nearly every event about the number of families in America who were living at the precipice, one paycheck away from losing everything — even as the economy was booming. […]

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Grocers Are Offering Coronavirus Hazard Pay. If Most Farms and Slaughterhouses Don’t, a Far Bigger Problem Lurks

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By Chloe Savino March 31, 2020 When a New Jersey man deliberately coughed on a Wegman’s worker last week, no one questioned why grocery store workers should get extra pay for the risks they are taking by showing up for shifts during the coronavirus pandemic. Further up the food chain, factory workers and farm hands

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How businesses could emerge better after COVID-19, according to B Lab

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“This is an opportunity for us to focus on both how business and government play a role in building a more resilient economic system for the next crisis.” By Adele Peters | March 30, 2020 As the coronavirus crisis and the ensuing economic fallout grows, many companies shifted their policies—in some cases, giving low-wage hourly

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Culture Shock: Low-income minorities are facing many new problems during this pandemic

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By Colbi Edmonds | March 30, 2020 The coronavirus is disrupting everyone’s lives, but it is particularly devastating for the low-income minority cohort. I’m not sure that the government is doing enough. Minorities “are more likely to experience multidimensional poverty” than someone who is white, according to the American Psychological Association. So during a crisis

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Coronavirus layoffs: Macy’s, Kohl’s furlough store workers, other employees

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Hundreds of workers being furloughed by department store giants Kohl’s and Macy’s By GEORGE AVALOS | March 31, 2020 SAN JOSE — Macy’s and Kohl’s disclosed plans on Monday for companywide furloughs, including their department stores, a move that seems certain to worsen the forbidding economic woes linked to the coronavirus. Macy’s and Kohl’s have

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