England’s Flawed Virus Contact Tracing Will Be Revamped
England will overhaul its faltering coronavirus contact-tracing system, the government said on Monday, shifting some control from private contractors to local public health teams and...
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Trump’s Payroll Tax Holiday Order Gives Employers a New Dilemma
The White House has pitched its payroll tax holiday as a boon to American workers that would fatten their paychecks and provide a jolt to...
Start-Ups Braced for the Worst. The Worst Never Came.
SAN FRANCISCO — Getaround, a car sharing start-up, started the year by laying off 150 employees and scaling back some operations after it spent too...
Will Trump’s Executive Directives Provide Relief?
President Trump, in announcing his executive measures on Saturday, said he was bypassing Congress to deliver emergency pandemic aid to needy Americans. But his directives...
Without $600 Weekly Benefit, Unemployed Face Bleak Choices
When Latrish Oseko lost her job last spring, government aid helped prevent a crisis from becoming a catastrophe. A $1,700 federal stimulus payment meant that...
Millions of Evictions Are a Sharper Threat as Government Support Ends
For the 108 million people who live in a rental home or apartment, Aug. 1 was a grim milestone. It marked the first time rent...
Why Black Workers Will Hurt the Most if Congress Doesn’t Extend Jobless Benefits
ImageProtesters calling for economic relief this week in New York.Credit…Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When Congress expanded unemployment insurance this year to meet the...
‘It’s Time for a Change’: Workers Idled by the Virus Try New Careers
MANCHESTER, England — As a national lockdown was imposed in March, a food deliverer, Hanna Scaife, watched her weekly hours plummet from 30, to five,...
Coming Next: The Greater Recession
One pretty good forecasting rule for the coronavirus era has been to take whatever Trump administration officials are saying and assume that the opposite will...
Small-Business Owners Are Wary as Relief Program Ends
In early April, three weeks after Connecticut issued shutdown orders, Ken Bodenstein borrowed $148,000 from the federal government to help cover payroll expenses at the...