Erica Stewart’s husband is a coal miner in West Virginia. Every day he goes to work packed shoulder to shoulder with other miners with little precautions taken against the coronavirus. Stewart, a mother of six, is at increased risk of severe illness and death from the virus due to an […]
“All my weddings have been canceled because the venues had to close due to orders from the state as non-essential businesses, and so I returned deposits to those couples,” said Michael Domingo, a California based event photographer. “Photo gigs make up a third of my income.” With social distancing in […]
SirCom, based in Temecula, California, needs parts out of Germany and China to manufacture its early warning systems. Some 70% of the products that were expected in the last week of February and the first week of March never arrived. The company has not received an expected delivery date. “We […]
Consumer prices increased slightly in February due to higher rents and food costs, but prices in the U.S. are expected to slow or even decline in the coming months as the U.S. economy sees the effects of the coronavirus take hold. As the virus continues to spread it will continue […]
The U.S. international trade deficit fell by more than expected in January, due to the first phase of the trade deal signed by the President and China. The trade deficit dropped 4.6% to $65.5 billion in January compared with $68.7 billion in December, according to the advanced U.S. international trade […]