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View of Brooklyn office of NYS Department of Labor as unemployment claims soar during Covid-19 pandemic, with sign on the doors asking people to apply for unemployment online. Lev Radin | Pacific Press | LightRocket via Getty Images The startling 14.7% unemployment figure released last Friday bears even more sobering news for Latino workers: Among

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the lives of students around the world, but the college Class of 2020 may have felt those impacts harshest of all — making them the class of Covid-19.  The Class of 2020 has been forced to quickly pack their lives into boxes and car trunks, rush their goodbyes to friends

Graduating students around the country will be missing out on walking down an aisle to pick up their diplomas due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In order to make up for the loss, Facebook hosted a virtual graduation on Friday and enlisted a host of celebrities to offer words of encouragement. One of those celebrities

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people are searching for ways to connect with one another despite not being able to be together in person. Many are also seeking ways to give back to their communities. A handful of photographers are doing both in an unexpected way: ‘porch portraiture,’ in which they style and photograph families in front

In a press conference May 6, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that 66% of new hospitalizations in New York for Covid-19 were people who had been staying home. “This is a surprise: Overwhelmingly, the people were at home,” Cuomo said. “We thought maybe they were taking public transportation, and we’ve taken special precautions on public transportation,

Since early March, over 36 million Americans have filed for unemployment due to the coronavirus crisis, marking the biggest spike in unemployment in U.S. history.  In response to these claims, states have paid a record $48 billion in unemployment benefits to people out of work but several recent studies have found that this total could

On Friday the 13th this past March, I was laid off from my full-time associate editor job at a Manhattan-based trade publication. I wasn’t surprised, but I was scared. “It happened,” I sheepishly told my mom over the phone later that day. We both knew I had to move back home. Luckily, I wasn’t tied to

With almost 37 million Americans out of work due to coronavirus shutdowns, Democratic lawmakers are proposing a second round of stimulus checks to provide some financial relief, potentially worth more than the first round. Most eligible Americans have by now received their check, called economic impact payments, though some are still being mailed to those

Nearly 36.5 million people have filed unemployment claims in the past two months as a result of the coronavirus crisis, with 2.981 million of those claims being filed for the week ending May 9. Though the pandemic has undoubtedly impacted millions of Americans, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that women are disproportionately feeling the

In April, the unemployment rate rose by more than 10%, with at least 26 million Americans out of work due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With more time spent at home to stop the spread of the virus, many people are turning to side hustles as a way to make more money in trying times.  Curious

This time of year, Tommia Hayes is usually busy coordinating with hundreds of business leaders across several states to organize her employer’s biggest event of the year, a corporate and social responsibility conference, that generally takes place every June in New York City. That conference, like countless other plans waylaid by the pandemic, is now

For the more than 33.5 million Americans who’ve filed for unemployment since mid-March, the stress of living during the pandemic includes dealing with the additional stress of job loss. Even in the most normal of circumstances, ”involuntary job loss is one of the most stressful events on the scale of stressful life events,” says Monique Valcour, an

The U.S. stock market has rebounded in recent weeks, though the S&P 500 is still down almost 15% from its all-time high in February. Declines in the market, along with the prospect of higher income taxes to come, are among the reasons experts say now is a good time to consider making a key change to your retirement

In the months since the novel coronavirus started spreading across the world, Bill Gates has been one of the most outspoken public figures with regards to the global response to the pandemic. However, Gates says he wishes he had “done more” to warn the world about the potential dangers of a global pandemic before coronavirus

It’s no surprise that wellness expert and author Deepak Chopra is spending his days in quarantine, meditating, doing yoga and getting lots of sleep. “I’m so happy,” Chopra tells CNBC Make It. In fact, Chopra’s quarantine routine is similar to the quiet life he lead before the Covid-19 pandemic. Chopra, 73 and founder of non-profit

As many restaurants around the world remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, one restaurant in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is experimenting with a new way to dine out. Mediamatic ETEN, a vegan restaurant at the arts center Mediamatic Biotoop, set up greenhouses to test out allowing diners to follow social distancing measures while still eating

As states begin to lift stay-at-home orders, some of the first businesses to shut down in March to minimize the spread of coronavirus are now beginning to reopen their doors. Workers within the retail, restaurant, hospitality, service and meatpacking industries are getting calls from their employers that it’s time to get back to work. But

Millions of Americans are coping with stress and anxiety as they deal with the fear and reality of death and disease due to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the economic fallout as a result of Covid-19. Nearly half (45%) of U.S. adults have reported that their mental health has been negatively impacted due to

Balancing the demands of motherhood has never been easy. And, with Covid-19 forcing many women to be an employee, parent and teacher all at once, many working moms are having a hard time keeping it all together. In fact, 74% of U.S. mothers say they feel mentally worse since the pandemic began, according to a

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson must be doing something right. Last season, which was only his second year with the league, the 23-year-old was named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player. Jackson is the second player in NFL history to receive unanimous votes for the prestigious title (with fellow quarterback Tom Brady being the other in 2010).