The coronavirus stimulus package Congress rushed out last week to help the nation’s hospitals and health care networks hands the industry billions of dollars in windfall subsidies and other spending that has little to do with defeating the COVID-19 pandemic. The $2 trillion legislation, which President Donald Trump signed Friday, includes more than $100 billion […]
No industry has been left untouched by the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the entertainment industry in particular has suffered. Clubs have closed. Movie theaters have shuttered. Concerts and festivals of all kinds have been canceled. Though television can be consumed from the comfort of one’s living room, the creation of it still involves bringing people […]
Instacart said its operations on Monday have been unaffected by grocery delivery workers striking over demands that the company do more to protect them during the coronavirus outbreak. “As it relates to today’s actions, we’ve seen absolutely no impact to Instacart’s operations,” the company said in a statement. “Today, we saw 40% more [workers] on […]
Gap Inc became the latest retailer to furlough employees en masse while stores remain closed because of the coronavirus spreading through North America and Europe. On Monday, the owner of Old Navy, Banana Republic, and the Gap said that stores in those markets would stay closed past the initial April 1 date the company had […]