Trump signs $2 trillion bill to blunt virus fallout
Agencies are rushing to implement the law, which authorizes the Internal Revenue Service to send $1,200 payments to millions of Americans and creates programs to disburse close to $1 trillion in business loans and guarantees.
Inside the talks on the largest U.S. bailout: frantic negotiations, partisan tensions and a Trump tweet
Amid fear about the coronavirus in the Capitol, the administration and congressional negotiators faced multiple obstacles before reaching a deal.
Trump seeks to ramp up production of medical equipment after harsh criticism
The president issued an order to allow the government to force General Motors to manufacture ventilators. The action represented an about-face after he had largely dismissed the outcry for ventilators.
‘Mission critical’ federal employees and contractors are still reporting to the office and terrified they’ll get sick
The federal bureaucracy has been slow to act to protect the health of many in its workforce, according to employees, managers and contractors.
Police officers try to disperse hundreds of migrants fleeing Delhi on foot after India announced a lockdown. (Niha Masih/The Post)
In India, the world’s biggest lockdown has forced migrants to walk hundreds of miles home
India has begun a 21-day lockdown in a bid to stop the coronavirus from spreading out of control. For migrant workers, the measures are a double blow. The economic shock has vaporized their incomes while the transport restrictions eliminated their normal ways home.
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Joseph Lowery
1921-2020 Joseph Lowery, a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the group for 20 years and later spoke at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration.
They measure time differently in the oldest section of one of the world’s oldest cities. Yet it takes an eternity to recall the last time Christians, Jews and Muslims, each claiming overlapping parts of the Old City, were kept from their eternal rounds.
The delivery service’s gig workers are asking for hand sanitizer and disinfectant, an additional $5 per order in hazard pay, a default tip set to 10 percent instead of 5 percent, as well as an indefinite extension of pay for workers impacted by covid-19.
Social distancing has broken apart the networks of babysitters, family members and friends that help care for children while their parents are at work.
With a significant number of restaurants closed, job uncertainty and grocery shelves periodically barren, a growing number of people are in an end-of-days-like scramble to learn how to cook.
Perspective
African American NFL quarterbacks had a banner season in 2019, thanks to stars such as Patrick Mahomes and others. But black quarterbacks haven’t made it until they can fall and get up without their comeback turning into an ordeal.
Retropolis
Posters inspired by World War II remind people to stay inside and wash hands
Everyone has a role to play in a collective struggle, and individual choices that feel small can snowball into grim consequences — both in war and during a pandemic.
Perspective
If you’ve run out of toilet paper, Woody Allen’s memoir is also made of paper
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The 2020 books worth reading now
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