Photo by GaudiLab / Shutterstock.com If you are among the 16 million self-employed Americans, you might have assumed that the recent flurry of federal aid for struggling workers doesn’t apply to you. After all, the self-employed are often left out of unemployment programs. But this time you’d be wrong. Recent …
Read More »MAS Confirms Singapore Recession, First Negative Quarter Since 2009 Global Financial Crisis
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has confirmed that the country “will enter into a recession this year”, in a macroeconomic report released today. This major economic downturn has been brought on by the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak. Singapore’s economy already contracted 2.2 per cent year-on-year in the first …
Read More »March, April, May: City’s Mood Darkens as Crisis Feels Endless
March, April, May: City’s Mood Darkens as Crisis Feels Endless With no clues about when the pandemic might subside, short-term discomfort is becoming long-term despair: “I feel like I have accepted this, and given up.” By April 25, 2020 New York City’s sidewalks, like this one in the Williamsburg section …
Read More »‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms.
NAIROBI, Kenya — In the largest slum in Kenya’s capital, people desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead. In India, thousands of workers are lining up twice a day for bread and fried vegetables …
Read More »Keeping Older People Safe During the Coronavirus Crisis
In the United States today, there are approximately four million older adults who are not in nursing facilities but who need help with personal care (bathing, dressing or eating) and another 3.5 million older adults who need assistance in areas such as finances and cooking to live independently. These older …
Read More »Medicare Is Updating Coverage to Help in the Coronavirus Crisis
Older Americans are at a high risk for serious illness from the coronavirus, and most who are over age 65 are covered by Medicare. Medicare already covers its enrollees for much of what they might need if they contract the virus and become seriously ill — and it has expanded …
Read More »Crisis VRigade adds co-op via SideQuest, seeks community support
After two rejections from Facebook and procuring nearly 80,000 downloads for Oculus Quest anyway, the developers of Time Crisis-inspired Crisis VRigade are seeking community support as they launch a co-op mode. The new pay-as-you-want Itchio store page for the free SideQuest game coincides with the launch of a cooperative mode. You and a couple …
Read More »Religious Groups in China Step Into the Coronavirus Crisis
Earlier this month, the hard-hit town of Caohe, near the center of the coronavirus outbreak in central China, received an unexpected gift: a large donation from a Taoist nunnery 550 miles away. Another Taoist temple, this one in Caohe itself, contributed tens of thousands of dollars worth of medical equipment …
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