Weekly Roundup: April 17th, 2020
The White House has now issued guidance about when communities can begin to reopen, a phased plan based on downward trends in positive cases. But for that plan to be safely executed, testing will have...
17 Apr 202027min
Unemployment Claims Remain Sky-High, All But Undoing 10 Years Of Job Gains
5.2 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the four-week total to 22 million — nearly wiping out all the job gains made since the Great Recession. Retail spending, another ...
16 Apr 202012min
Trump, Governors Weigh How To Reopen Country
President Trump is impatient to get the country reopened. The administration's public health experts and the governors of California and New York say testing will have to become more widespread for th...
15 Apr 202014min
Obama Endorses Biden For President—So What?
Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden in a twelve-minute video shared online Tuesday morning. So what does the former president's endorsement mean in an election cycle where Democrats have moved to his left...
14 Apr 202013min
Trump Promised Corporate Partnerships To Fight The Virus. They Haven't Materialized.
Rather than a sweeping national campaign of screening, drive-through sample collection and lab testing, NPR found a smattering of small pilot projects and aborted efforts. Also, the White House is wor...
13 Apr 202013min
Weekly Roundup: April 10th, 2020
In a White House briefing Friday, the top medical experts from the coronavirus task force said the social distancing measures appeared to be constraining the outbreak. President Trump said that he wou...
10 Apr 202024min
17 Million Americans Have Filed For Unemployment In The Last 3 Weeks
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits shot up again last week, as 6.6 million more people filed initial claims, and analysts expect the numbers to keep rising. Also, the Federal Reserve a...
9 Apr 202014min
Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Campaign
In a livestream announcing his exit from the presidential contest, Bernie Sanders told support that while there was no viable path forward for his campaign, the progressive movement was as strong as e...
8 Apr 202015min
