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Unemployment claims are stabilizing. Job losses rose to record levels in March and April but the rate of claims has started to ease in recent weeks, a sign of increased hiring and businesses beginning to come back online. It will still take years to fully recover the millions of jobs lost in the last two months. Stock futures are rising based on the expected slowing of unemployment claims.
As businesses reopen, parents are struggling to find child care. Most schools around the country remain closed and some states have decided to not resume classes for the rest of the year. That puts parents returning to work after shutdowns ease in a difficult position.
Hispanics almost twice as likely as whites to lose jobs amid pandemic A Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that 20 percent of Hispanic workers and 16 percent of black Americans report being laid off or furloughed, compared with 11 percent of whites. Disproportionately black counties account for over half of U.S. coronavirus cases, study finds.
Most states that are reopening don’t meet White House guidelines to do so. In more than half the states reopening, COVID-19 cases are rising.
The governor of Arizona halted a study that was showing COVID-19 cases would continue to rise. The data came amid plans to begin reopening some of the state’s businesses.
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“In its coming incarnation, the task force is expected to have a partially new cast of characters, with less emphasis on scientists and more on economic advisers. On Tuesday, Mr. Pence noted that administration officials already have been discussing how to transition the response down to the agency level. If this means that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies will be empowered to take greater control, and suffer less meddling from Mr. Trump, all the better.” - New York Times editorial board
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