LABOR & ECONOMY
Co-Curator: Sheena Collier, Collier Connection
Keywords Search Terms: job loss, layoffs, job reduction, jobless, furlough,freeze, supply chain, unemployment claims, company, office, business, restaurant, retailer, outlet or store, business continuity, small business relief, labor market, labor sector, unemployment rates, jobless claims, market challenges, corporate giving, nonprofit, sports industry, sports and recreation events, travel sector, bankruptcy, insolvency, price gouging, fraud, economy, economic indicators, economic health, academic budges, shut dow of academic institutions, endowments, fundraising invest, distribution centers, stimulus package, CARES Act, paycheck protection program
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| Talking About COVID-19: A Call for Racial, Economic, and Health Equity The Opportunity Agenda Elizabeth Johnsen March 9, 2020 https://www.opportunityagenda.org/explore/insights/talking-about-covid-19-call-racial-economic-and-health-equity |
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| Low Pay, High Risk: Nursing Home Workers Confront Coronavirus Dilemma New York Times March 31, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007046988/nursing-home-coronavirus.html?playlistId=video/coronavirus-news-update |
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Black-Owned Businesses Could Face Hurdles in Federal Aid Program Minority business owners have always struggled to secure bank loans. Now, many banks want to deal only with existing customers when making loans through the government’s $349 billion aid package. |
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| Cincinnati Black-owned restaurants open for dine-in, carry-out, curbside service and delivery. The Voice of Black Cincinnati Marissa Staples April 17, 2020 https://thevoiceofblackcincinnati.com/black-owned-restaurants/ |
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COVID-19 Pandemic Could Be The Last Chapter For N.J. Bookstore |
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| Financial and health impacts of COVID-19 vary widely by race and ethnicity Pew Research Center Mark Hugo Lopez, Lee Rainie, and Abby Budiman May 5, 2020 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/05/05/financial-and-health-impacts-of-covid-19-vary-widely-by-race-and-ethnicity/ |
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| Exposure on the job: Who are the essential workers who likely cannot work from home? The Brookings Institution Melissa S. Kearney and Luke Pardue May 7, 2020 https://www.brookings.edu/research/exposure-on-the-job/ |
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| Bar Owners Launch a “Survival” Coalition to Support Boston’s Black-Owned Restaurants through COVID: The Boston Black Hospitality Coalition is raising funds and making connections in hopes of saving an already vulnerable group of businesses. Boston Magazine Jacqueline Cain https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2020/05/08/black-owned-restaurants-covid/ |
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The coronavirus recession is already worse for Black Americans
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| FEDERAL STIMULUS SURVEY FINDINGS Global Strategy Group for Color of Change and UnidosUS May 13, 2020 https://theblackresponse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COC-UnidosUS-Abbreviated-Deck-F05.13.20.pdf |
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Few Minority-Owned Businesses Got Relief Loans They Asked For: The Paycheck Protection Program and other federal efforts largely neglected them, a survey commissioned by two equal-rights groups found. Nearly half the respondents expect to close permanently. |
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| Pelosi moving to revamp small business rescue program: The House will vote on a bipartisan fix to the Paycheck Protection Program next week amid growing concern over its implementation. Politico Zachary Warmbrodt and Heather Caygle May 19, 2020 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/19/pelosi-small-business-ppp-268506 |
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| JAYAPAL INTRODUCES PAYCHECK RECOVERY ACT Jaypal.House.Gov May 19, 2020 https://jayapal.house.gov/2020/05/19/jayapal-introduces-paycheck-recovery-act/ View the Paycheck Recovery Act here |
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| COVID Diaries: Jessica And Sean Apply For A Loan Code Switch Podcast, NPR Shereen Marisol Meraji May 20, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/05/19/859131500/covid-diaries-jessica-and-sean-apply-for-a-loan |
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| An undercurrent of the protests: African Americans are struggling more economically from this pandemic The Washington Post Eli Rosenberg June 1, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/01/coronavirus-impact-black-communities-protests/ |
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| From Jobs To Homeownership, Protests Put Spotlight On Racial Economic Divide All Things Considered, NPR Scott Horsley June 1, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/866794025/from-jobs-to-homeownership-protests-put-spotlight-on-economic-divide |
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| < Racism And Economics The Indicator from Planet Money, NPR Hosted by Stacey Vanek Smith June 1, 2020 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/867466515 |
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| Black workers hit hard by COVID-19 job losses, analysis reveals The Ticker, Yahoo Finance Elise Gould and Kristin Myers June 2, 2020 https://finance.yahoo.com/video/u-economy-could-10-years-184430465.html |
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| Why black workers face new economic risks amid COVID-19 The Ticker, Yahoo Finance Lillian Singh and Zack Guzman June 3, 2020 https://finance.yahoo.com/video/black-workers-face-economic-risks-175235102.html |
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| One Bar. Twelve weeks. Seventeen Lives in Lockdown. New York Times Jack Nicas June 11, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/business/coronavirus-california-lockdown-small-business.html |
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| Coronavirus ‘Ripped A Hole’ In N.Y.C.’s Black Community. This Funeral Director Knows. New York Times Yousur Al-Hlou and Ora DeKornfeld June 14, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007156203/coronavirus-black-community-deaths.html?referringSource=articleShare |
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Unemployment Tracker: Job Losses for Black Workers Are Deepening
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Coronavirus Is Hitting Black Business Owners Hardest |
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| How COVID turned a spotlight on weak worker rights The Harvard Gazette June 23, 2020 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/labor-law-experts-discuss-workers-rights-in-covid-19/ |
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| The real cost of Amazon Vox Shirin Ghaffary and Jason Del Rey June 29, 2020 https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/29/21303643/amazon-coronavirus-warehouse-workers-protest-jeff-bezos-chris-smalls-boycott-pandemic |
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| Your Money: A Hub for Help During the Coronavirus Crisis New York Times Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard July 9, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-money-unemployment.html |
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| Beyoncé's BeyGOOD and NAACP to Award Grants to Black-Owned Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 Complex Tara C. Mahadevan July 10, 2020 https://www.complex.com/music/2020/07/beyonce-beygood-partners-naacp-award-grants-black-own-businesses-covid-19 |
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How Were $38 Billion In PPP Loans Distributed In New York? |
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'Wait Wait' For July 11, 2020, With Not My Job Guest Jameela Jamil |
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| [Virtual] The Epidemic Beneath the Pandemic: Our Epidemic of Insecurity & COVID19 Inequities Harvard Club of Washington, DC Dr. Abdul El-Sayed July 28, 2020 http://hcdc.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=1976 |
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How Restaurant Design Is Changing As a Result of COVID-19 |
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Costco Didn’t Enforce Its Dress Code — Until Employees Started Wearing Black Lives Matter Masks |
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Voices From Travel’s Front Lines: ‘We Walk in Fear, We Work in Fear’ |
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Racial Economic Inequality Amid the COVID-19 Crisis |
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