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These are the states hit hardest by unemployment during COVID-19 Kyle Schnitzer

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that unemployment jumped to 4.4% in March, up from 3.5% in February, which was a 50-year low. Read More

Bill Gates says these are the 3 drastic steps we must take to fight Coronavirus Kyle Schnitzer

The billionaire wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post earlier this week, where he outlined the three steps the nation must take in the COVID-19 fight. Read More

This is how to become confident and transform your life Benjamin P. Hardy

You’ll fail, something won’t work out, you’ll hit a glass ceiling. Something will happen and you’ll be left with two choices: Give up. Keep going. Read More

Zoom layoff calls are the new normal during COVID-19 and this is how you get through it Kyle Schnitzer

As offices around the country are forced to close to encourage social distancing and help maintain the spread of COVID-19, remote firings have started to take place through video-conference services like Zoom. Two companies — Bird and Rent the Runway — reportedly conducted mass layoffs over conference calls over the past week. Read More

This is how many companies are likely to have layoffs in the next 3 months Jennifer Fabiano

A new survey confirms that more layoffs could definitely be taking place over the next three months, providing a grim outlook for the economy due to the coronavirus outbreak. Read More

The majority of New Yorkers are very dissatisfied with what is being done to help their city John Anderer

A meager 22% of respondents said they are happy with the support so far, and another 23% are unsure. Read More

‘Officers are scared’: How COVID-19 is affecting cops around US Kyle Schnitzer

“I don’t think it’s too far to say that officers are scared out there,” Sgt. Manny Ramirez, president of Fort Worth Police Officers Association, told the Associated Press. Read More

If social distancing is not followed in the US, 264 million people will contract Covid-19 CW Headley

If serious interventions are not put in place, social isolation measures could last another 18 months, 81% of the US population will contract Covid-19 (264 million people) and 2.2 million of them will die. Read More

Coronavirus has now hit multiple Amazon warehouses Kyle Schnitzer

NPR reported workers in two of Amazon’s warehouses in New York City – Staten Island and Queens – tested positive for the virus. Other positive cases have been reported at facilities in Moreno Valley, Calif., Jacksonville, Fla., Oklahoma City, Brownstown, Mich., Katy, Tex., Wallingford, Conn. and Shepherdsville, Ky. Read More

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