Forced to adapt, businesses rethink how they make money
For many companies, it’s a matter of survival, but for others, the changes have been a silver lining amidst the crisis.
For many companies, it’s a matter of survival, but for others, the changes have been a silver lining amidst the crisis.
Marion County on Saturday reported 9,040 cumulative cases—up from 8,928 the previous day, an increase of 112 cases.
Michigan—with one of the country’s most expansive lockdowns—had 22.7% unemployment in April, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday was second highest behind only Nevada.
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Record unemployment caused by the coronavirus pandemic led to the largest one-month increase in mortgage delinquencies ever recorded.
President Donald Trump on Friday called on governors across the country to allow them to reopen this weekend, even as some parts of the nation remain under coronavirus lockdown.
The Indiana Donor Network Organ and Tissue Recovery Center has re-tasked two operating rooms and an intensive care unit to recover major organs, such as the kidneys, heart and lungs.
A petition asking Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett to allow salons to reopen has received more than 6,000 signatures in six days. Some owners said they’re at a huge disadvantage with competitors in adjacent counties back in business.
The funding is going to businesses that need assistance paying their employees or rent, to organizations helping families pay their mortgage or buy groceries, and to companies bearing pandemic-related expenses.
Health officials say Indiana has far more coronavirus cases—probably tens of thousands more—than those indicated by the number of official tests.
IU President Michael McRobbie outlined reopening plans in a note to the university community on Thursday. The note said the university could begin in-person instruction this fall “in some proportion,” but added the reopening would depend on the pandemic.
Gov. Eric Holcomb said the budget agency is estimating that Indiana could take in $3 billion less than expected during the last two months of fiscal year 2020—which ends June 30—and fiscal year 2021.
The staggering increase in Indiana’s jobless rate—which now is higher than the national rate—was due primarily to the loss of 380,500 workers in the private sector over the previous month.
Christel House, which operates K-12 charter schools in high-poverty areas, did not provide a reason for Peterson’s departure. He took the job in October 2018, succeeding founder Christel DeHaan.
With 125 Indiana Statehouse races on ballots across the state this year, only 10 seats don’t have incumbents seeking re-election.
AuthentiCx has already landed some big, national customers and recently raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding to accelerate growth.
Researchers who examined the lungs of patients killed by COVID-19 found evidence that it attacks the lining of blood vessels there, a critical difference from the lungs of people who died of the flu, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
All of Indiana’s state-operated inns, campgrounds and cabins and will reopen in time for the Memorial Day weekend as coronavirus restrictions are eased across much of Indiana, state officials said.
As the federal government, states and individuals start to design their own “Is it worth it?” calculus, Americans are subjectively measuring the stakes and unavoidably helping to frame a national referendum on risk.
The mall shopping experience is far different than it was before the pandemic began in March—and it’s likely to stay that way for a while.