Atlanta Mayor Comments On The Efforts To Reopen Georgia
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms about the Georgia governor's effort to reopen the state.
Business
Feds Warn Airlines Once Again To Offer Customers Refunds
The Department of Transportation received some 25,000 consumer complaints in March and April, up from about 1,500 a month. DOT will also allow airlines to stop serving some cities with little demand.
U.K. Extends Coronavirus Furlough Payments To Workers Through End Of October
The U.K. program pays people idled by the COVID-19 pandemic up to around $3,088 a month. Some 7.5 million jobs have been furloughed.
This Baseball Mascot Was Struck Out By The Coronavirus Pandemic
David Edwards was going to play the mascot for the Quad Cities River Bandits in Iowa. But the baseball season was canceled and he also lost a second job. "I feel very scared about my future," he says.
Why The Crisis May Make Powerful Corporations Even More Powerful
As small businesses scramble for emergency assistance, big businesses get a new program of virtually endless lending from the Fed.
U.S. Treasury To Borrow $3 Trillion To Finance Pandemic Relief Programs
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about where the money will come from to pay for congressional relief packages.
News Brief: Senate Hearing, Supreme Court, Nursing Homes
A key hearing on COVID-19 takes place in the Senate Tuesday. The Supreme Court hears arguments involving President Trump's financial records. And, pandemic exposes cracks in the nursing home system.
Minority-Owned Small Businesses Were Supposed To Get Priority. They May Not Have
The CARES Act required the Small Business Administration to tell banks to prioritize underserved communities for coronavirus relief loans. That didn't happen, a new inspector general's report found.
Coronavirus Pandemic Exposes Cracks In Nursing Home System
Nursing homes have accounted for nearly half of COVID-19 deaths in some states. Why have they been so vulnerable to the virus, and what could improve that in the future?
A Colorado Restaurant Hosted A Crowd On Mother's Day. It's Now Been Closed Down
Hundreds of people visited the C&C Coffee and Kitchen, including some who praised its defiance in allowing a capacity crowd to eat breakfast burritos in its dining room.