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Steep dents in consumer optimism are to be expected with such severe and widespread economic pain.

You might not want to spend your quarantine in a city. But the rural places many Americans treat as playgrounds, and the workers who keep them running, will suffer for it.

The 2020 census results—which will provide updated portraits of communities of all sizes across the far reaches of America—will be crucial in planning for the considerable changes that lie ahead.

Workers from both Amazon and Instacart want more access to paid sick time off. At this time, it’s available only to those who have tested positive for the coronavirus or get placed on mandatory self-quarantine.

My childhood friend has joined America’s “deaths of despair.” A country cannot live up to its potential when its citizens don’t live up to theirs. R.I.P., Keylan Knapp.

We have known for years that gentrification has disproportionately displaced black and Latino people from their homes across the U.S., “excluding existing residents from the benefits of a revitalizing neighborhood,” as one study put it.

The Washington Post, March 10, 2020, Fears Of Corporate Debt Bomb Grow As Coronavirus Outbreak Worsens The coronavirus panic could threaten a $10 trillion mountain of corporate debt, unleashing a cycle of layoffs and business spending cuts that would hit the economy just as some analysts are warning of a recession. Financial markets already are

“This is going to make it harder for community groups to engage in the process,” said Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “These are substantial changes that are being presented as a technical update, with almost none of those changes being advertised. So yeah — it’s sort of a stealth maneuver.”

Over 6 million children in the United States live with a grandparent.

In the face of a global pandemic, what are food service, retail and hospitality workers supposed to do?

As coronavirus shuts down large parts of the US economy and millions of Americans limit social interaction, the Census Bureau is preparing to send thousands of workers into communities to assist in the decennial headcount.

Like Me Too and Black Lives Matter, the Flatten the Curve movement has fomented a profound reckoning with privilege and inequality.

After more than two decades of failure, Maryland lawmakers passed legislation Tuesday that makes it illegal for landlords to discriminate against tenants based on how they pay their rent, including with government housing vouchers.

“Redlining is among the unfinished business of the Civil and Human Rights Movements,” Texas Congressman Al Green said.

In short, Gravity Payments put the American Dream back within financial reach for its employees.