Business

Facebook says it will give $25 million to aid U.S. and Canadian local newspapers and sites. It promises to spend $75 million in ads to pour money into newsrooms ailing financially from Coronavirus.

A large number of the workforce is staying home during the coronavirus. Alexander Urbelis, hacker-turned-information-security attorney, says the remote working environment is a hacker's paradise.

A couple in the San Francisco Bay area, who are musicians and music educators, rely on bookings at schools and libraries, which are now closed by coronavirus distancing measures.

Workers from Amazon and Instacart are planning to go on strike. They're asking their companies to do more to keep them safe during the coronavirus outbreak.

In a rare and overwhelmingly bipartisan move, Congress has approved a $2 trillion package to rescue the economy.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Solomon Jones of The Philadelphia Inquirer about how "essential business" designations affect minority communities.

Even many symptomatic patients and exposed health workers who are able to get a COVID-19 test must wait nearly a week to get results. Others get results in hours. Here's why it varies so much.

NPR's business correspondent addresses listener concerns about retail workers and talks about about best practices for consumers as the coronavirus epidemic worsens.

NPR's business correspondent answers listener questions about economic sectors that are booming, working in retail and supporting small businesses in the middle of the coronavirus emergency.

The CARES Act offers relief to state and local governments, individuals, small and large businesses, and hospitals affected by the coronavirus crisis.

The president said the automaker was taking too long to negotiate what he called an urgent contract under which it and health manufacturer Ventec would build the machines.

The people who harvest food face two challenges right now: tighter border controls keeping many away from the fields, and cramped living quarters that make social distancing almost impossible.