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9 June 2020
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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800-1500 Words
To meet the financial needs of undocumented immigrants caught in the gap left by the federal CARES Act pandemic relief program, the advocacy group Aliento has distributed financial aid, educated workers about unemploy...
Bloomberg Businessweek
Paul Tullis
5 June 2020
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1500-3000 Words
The Netherlands approach of balancing the potential for future economic hardship with the current risk of Covid-19 spreading has appeared to have helped the country to flatten the curve of cases faster than other area...
28 May 2020
Khonoma, Nagaland, India
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800-1500 Words
Despite the lockdown and loss of tourism income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the village of Kohonoma in India has been able to maintain a high level of food security for its people. Because of previous legal changes ...
Religion News Service
Jacob Wirtschafter
18 May 2020
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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800-1500 Words
An interfaith partnership between religions institutions and communities in Arizona has helped provide mask-making jobs to those who have lost their sources of income during the coronavirus pandemic. Participants incl...
18 May 2020
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Many local government employees have shifted to remote work as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite previous resistance to remote work, employers are finding that workers are more efficient at home and even wo...
14 May 2020
United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Supply chains have been disrupted with the restrictions imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic, and farmers are suffering from a lack of buying customers. Meanwhile, food banks are in dire straits as more and more people...
14 May 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
ChiFresh Kitchen is a worker-owned cooperative that gives formerly incarcerated people an income, and a second chance, under a corporate structure that attacks high unemployment from the ground up. Formed as a caterin...
12 May 2020
Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The restrictions imposed by the coronavirus have turned horseracing in Nebraska into an unexpected boon. City officials allowed racing tracks to be open—with precautions—because the horses' livelihoods depend on the j...
8 May 2020
Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Lee Initiative, Beam Suntory, and Pernod Ricard are three brand-sponsored initiatives that have provided meals and essential goods to cooks, servers, hosts, bussers, and bartenders that are out of jobs because of ...
MIT Technology Review
Karen Hao
6 May 2020
China
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1500-3000 Words
Online retailers in China launched rural live-streaming initiatives to aid farmers in selling their products directly to consumers. After traditional selling methods were halted due to the novel coronavirus, farmers n...
The Washington Post
Jada Yuan
2 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
When New York hospitals became overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, the military deployed and staffed a Navy hospital ship and built a military field hospital in a nearby convention center to help with the caseload. Al...
Mongabay
Keith Anthony S. Fabro
30 April 2020
Coron, Palawan, Philippines
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1500-3000 Words
A COVID-19-spurred shutdown has halted ecotourism to Siete Pecados, a marine protected area in the Philippines. As a result, many residents have turned to fishing as a way to supplement their income. To make sure thi...
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Tom Hallberg
29 April 2020
Jackson, Wyoming, United States
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800-1500 Words
Teton County’s St. John’s Health medical center worked proactively to make sure they had the resilience needed in staffing to accommodate a potential surge in COVID-19 patients. Working quickly, they identified curren...
28 April 2020
Islamabad, Pakistan
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
A solution in Pakistan to the economic distress caused by the coronavirus pandemic is also tackling another crisis at the same time: climate change. A program called 10 Billion Tree Tsunami employs workers who lost th...
27 April 2020
Seoul, South Korea
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The art world in Seoul is cautiously taking steps to reopening business following the COVID-19 quarantine. To keep safe, galleries are practicing the usual social distancing guidelines, wearing masks, and collecting c...
21 April 2020
Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
The stimulus checks sent out by the U.S. government in an attempt to alleviate the economic stress caused by the quarantine do not account for those who are undocumented, mixed-status families, and people who don't qu...
21 April 2020
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Under 800 Words
A restaurant relief effort called the Power of 10 Initiative aims to support a devastated hospitality industry. The project raises $10,000 a week to support 10 full-time jobs at small restaurants, who then provide 1,0...
20 April 2020
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Nurses from Phoenix’s Banner-University Medical Center volunteered to travel to Greeley, Colorado, which has been hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeing twice the number of fatalities, Banner Health – because of ...
20 April 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Over 3000 Words
As communities around the United States face major job losses, those that have kept their economies local, like in Albuquerque, NM and Springfield, MA, are seeing more resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
18 April 2020
Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
As businesses around the United States look to reopen, they can take lessons from factories that have stayed open to serve us during the COVID-19 pandemic. At places like the Charmin factors or General Mills, they’ve ...
15 April 2020
District of Columbia, United States
Radio
Under 3 Minutes
A D.C.-area nonprofit that normally links refugee and immigrant chefs with paid internships at local restaurants has pivoted to directly paying those chefs to produce meals to donate across the DMV area for COVID-19 r...
13 April 2020
Santa Ana, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The owners of an iconic pomade and Chicano hipster fashion manufacturing factory in Santa Ana, California have made the switch to hand sanitizer manufacturing in an attempt to reemploy furloughed employees during the ...
13 April 2020
England
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800-1500 Words
Across England, businesses are stepping up to help their neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s Glasses Direct, which is gifting 4,000 pairs of glasses to National Health Service workers, and Fully Charged, o...
Anchorage Daily News
Beth Bragg
12 April 2020
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Anchorage fire department is offering drive-by salutes for kids in the city who have birthdays during the social distancing mandate. Seven vehicles are paraded through the neighborhoods with lights and sirens (2 f...
12 April 2020
Cortez, Colorado, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Businesses in the Four Corners region of the United States have shifted their production from outdoor equipment to medical equipment and have successfully solicited people from the community to help. Although the busi...
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