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CVS to provide bonuses, add benefits, hire 50K in response to COVID-19 Coronavirus

Positions will include store associates, home delivery drivers, distribution center employees and member/customer service professionals...

Grocery Store Workers—’Heroes to the Community’ During Coronavirus—to Get Hazard Pay

Working long hours at great risk of exposure, thousands of grocery store workers are being recognized as essential with a pay raise....

‘Just Keep Up the Faith’: Workers Are Stepping Up to Beat the Coronavirus From hospital wards to bus

“Every ventilator we get off the end of our line and out of our building is saving a life,” says Trevar Smedal. He works at a GE...

As coronavirus spreads, so do reports of companies mistreating workers From nurses to retail salespe

She could wear her protective mask while seeing her patients. Many were, after all, elderly, with respiratory problems, susceptible to...

UFCW Negotiating Benefits for Essential Workers During Coronavirus Crisis.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union has long known how essential their members were to the economy and the country. They...

Responding to the Oncoming Glacier, Restoring a Sustainable Economy

“But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it....

Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression “We are freezing the economy.”

While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency economic-stabilization package, Denmark has gone big—very, very...

Our Corona Response’s Missing Ingredient – Mobilize The Supply Side!

Modern economics developed out of pre-modern political economy, and much that is valuable in the former is a legacy of the latter. One of...

This Stimulus Bill Will Not Save the Economy From Collapse Let’s not repeat the slow and timid respo

When the stock market crashed in 1929, the Dow plummeted from its September peak of 381.17 to a low of 41.22 in July 1932. Because so few...

9 charts show why the economy is in such a scary spot

The coronavirus crisis is about to blow up a cascade of U.S. economic charts. If the latest projections are even close to correct, the...

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