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Rocio Tirado, who works for a New Orleans area newspaper, has seen her pay drop during the pandemic. She asked her sons Nicholas (left) and Emilio to be less wasteful.

Economy

I Used The Coronavirus Relief Money To Pay My Overdue Mortgage

10:21am May 04, 2020

by Becky Sullivan

Rocio Tirado, who works for a New Orleans area newspaper, has seen her pay drop during the pandemic. She asked her sons to be less wasteful. Her relief aid went toward her mortgage and a home repair.

Calls Grow For Trump To Stop Saudi Oil From Reaching Gulf Coast Refineries

8:18am May 04, 2020

by Jackie Northam

A flotilla of Saudi tankers loaded with crude oil is heading to the U.S. at a time when the shale industry is teetering. U.S. producers and others are pressuring President Trump to block the tankers.

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Meat Packers Question New COVID-19 Safety Guidelines

8:08am May 04, 2020

by Christina Stella

Meatpacking workers have been ordered back on the job to plants where COVID-19 cases had spread. While OSHA issued new safety guidelines, some wonder whether they protect workers or employers.

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Social Distancing, Masks Key As States Loosen Restrictions, Researcher Says

7:44am May 04, 2020

NPR's David Greene talks to Crystal Watson, a public health researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about if the county has the necessary measures in place to reopen safely.

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What's Behind States' Differing Approaches To Reopen Economies?

6:29am May 04, 2020

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Donald Kettl, professor of public policy at the University of Texas at Austin, about how state competition during the coronavirus crisis could lead to lasting changes.

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Balancing Public Safety And Reopening Economies

5:31pm May 02, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with two economists, Teresa Ghilarducci and James Broughel, about the tradeoffs between reopening economies and public safety during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Preparing Students To Enter An Unstable Job Market

5:21pm May 02, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kamla Charles, a career counselor at Valencia College in Orlando, Fla., about how students can best equip themselves to enter a shaky job market.

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Sometimes things can get so complicated that you need a film noir detective to make sense of it all. Getting ventilators in a pandemic is just one of those complicated things.

Economy

Chasing The Ventilator Race

2:02pm May 02, 2020

by Nickolai Hammar

Sometimes things can get so complicated that you need a film noir detective to make sense of it all. Getting ventilators in a pandemic is just one of those complicated things.

Economy

McConnell Calls For Measures To Shield Open Businesses From Lawsuits

8:04am May 02, 2020

by Jim Zarroli

Worries about liability are keeping some businesses from re-opening: If an employee or a customer contracts COVID-19, can they sue the business?

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Hundreds of workers tested positive for COVID-19 at a Smithfield Foods hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.

U.S. Workplace Safety Rules Missing In The Pandemic

6:50pm May 01, 2020

by Scott Horsley

Some businesses and employee advocates say they're not getting much help from the federal government to ensure workers' safety from the coronavirus pandemic.

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