More than a million people have filed for unemployment each week since mid-March. The continued high level of jobless claims raises questions about whether steep job losses could last longer than hoped, economists have said.
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Agriculture Department to extend bailout to lobster industry
The industry has suffered under strained trade relations with China and tit-for-tat tariffs that reduced exports to one of its biggest foreign markets.
Kevin Hassett, senior Trump economic adviser, to leave White House
Hassett was brought back when the economic impact of the pandemic started hitting the U.S.
No, the nursing home cannot take your stimulus payment
The Internal Revenue Service and Federal Trade Commission warned nursing homes and assisted-living facilities that they can’t snatch residents’ stimulus payments.
Small businesses turned to technology to survive the pandemic. But it may not be enough.
Forced to close their restaurants, shops, bookstores and yoga studios, small-business owners have had to find new ways to make money online.
With modern thinking, antique lighting retains its luster
Cyrus Manafzadeh’s Artisan Lamp came through the 2008 financial crisis, and now it’s confronting the coronavirus pandemic.
America’s new $600 billion rescue program off to a rocky start
The Federal Reserve’s Main Street lending program is supposed to provide low-cost loans to small and mid-sized businesses. But small-business owners say they can’t find banks willing to do the loans.
The creative ways beauty pros are facing the pandemic: Press-on nails and skincare advice for protesters
The Washington Post spoke to YouTuber Hyram Yarbro, celebrity aesthetician Shani Darden, makeup artist Molly Fredenberg and others about the future of the beauty industry after the covid-19 pandemic.