Stories tagged: "economic fallout"


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We Might Finally Have an Effective COVID-19 Treatment, But the Economy Is Getting Worse

Word of the drug came as the U.S. government reported that American economic output is shriveling in the biggest and fastest collapse since the Great Depression.

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Here’s What’s in the Latest Coronavirus Relief Bill

President Donald Trump will be holding a signing ceremony Friday for a bill providing a nearly $500 billion infusion of coronavirus spending, rushing new relief to employers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a pandemic that has claimed almost 50,000 American lives and one in six U.S. jobs.

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Americans Trust Their Governors More Than Trump to Lead on Reopening the Economy

A new Gallup poll released on Thursday found that a majority of Americans say they have more confidence in their state's governor to make the right economic recommendations regarding the novel coronavirus crisis than they do leaders in the federal government.

A masked worker at this state WIN job center in Pearl, Miss., holds an unemployment benefit application form as she waits for a client, Tuesday, April 21, 2020.  (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
1 in 6 Americans Have Lost Their Jobs Because of Coronavirus

More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursday.