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South China Morning Post
Julian Ryall
2 September 2020
Japan
Text
800-1500 Words
The Japanese government is embracing the idea of "workation" trips for employees across industries as a means to "help the travel industry and keep the economy ticking" as the country moves forward in the wake of the ...
25 August 2020
Los Angeles County, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Finding gainful employment after incarceration is hard in the best of times, but during a global pandemic it's even more challenging. A Los Angeles nonprofit, Chrysalis, has been able to place the hard-to-employ job s...
20 August 2020
New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Thinkubator, a Bronx-based nonprofit, launched "Thinkubator Solves" a virtual internship program that pairs Bronx high school students with local businesses. The paid one-month summer internship allows students to...
14 August 2020
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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800-1500 Words
With many people out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some cities and nonprofits are creating outdoorsy job programs to relieve unemployment. Inspired by the conservation corps programs created during the Great D...
8 August 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
San Francisco has reported thousands of cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, but public health experts believe it could have been far worse had the city not implemented early protocols and procedures. An...
The Atlantic
Ed Yong
4 August 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The U.S. has recorded a worldwide record number of COVID-19 cases after missteps and overall lack of action from the federal government limited the nation's response, but in some areas of the country where local insti...
31 July 2020
Nevada, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Meatpacking workers protested Covid-19 safety concerns and a coalition of advocacy groups filed a civil rights complaint with the government accusing Tyson and JBS USA of racial discrimination during the pandemic beca...
7 July 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Community leaders led the charge in raising funds for undocumented workers, who do not qualify for stimulus and unemployment checks during the Covid-19 shutdown which has left millions of people unable to work. A coll...
Science Africa
Henry Owino
3 July 2020
Kibera, Kenya
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
Residents in Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya, have adopted early preventative practices to help slow the spread of coronavirus in the community. Much of this work has been led by community leaders who are working wi...
30 June 2020
Rochester, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A change in communication policies and outreach procedures has helped the UR Medicine Home Care program retain employees during the coronavirus pandemic, despite increasingly difficult work conditions. Part of this ef...
23 June 2020
Bonner, Montana, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
In Montana, a handful of manufacturers have adapted their facilities to make products and materials that help healthcare workers safely work on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. From face shields to liquid tran...
Science Africa
Leopold Obi
Mary Hearty
22 June 2020
Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
Kenya's textile industry is finding new purpose and providing jobs to many during the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the industry had previously been nearly obsolete due to the import of clothing, the pandemic has given ...
20 June 2020
Japan
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800-1500 Words
Japan's unemployment has barely grown during the COVID-19 crisis, thanks in large part to a business culture that prizes employees' interests over short-term profits. Much of the country's economy remained open in the...
17 June 2020
Bangor, Maine, United States
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800-1500 Words
A tension fabric structures manufacturing company in Maine has repurposed their facility and transformed their local workforce to create grade-one medical masks for the local hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. Bec...
NPR
Cardiff Garcia
17 June 2020
United States
Podcast
5-15 Minutes
Varying tactics have been adopted in response to the worldwide pandemic, prompting financial implications; some more successful than others. Germany and Japan, in particular, have been able to maintain low unemploymen...
16 June 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Graduate students at several major universities organized to secure benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic. For example, the University of Illinois Graduate Employees Organization fought for and won the expansion of me...
12 June 2020
Switzerland
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1500-3000 Words
Switzerland avoids a total shutdown of borders in order to keep its healthcare system functioning during the covid-19 health crisis. Healthcare workers are vital to border cities such as Geneva, which relies on cross-...
9 June 2020
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Text
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...
The Guardian
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues
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
Text
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
Text
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
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
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...
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...
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...
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