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The financial impact of COVID-19 has now reached a historic level when it comes to unemployment. Just released numbers have 4.4 million people filing for unemployment insurance this past week. That brings a grand total for the last five weeks to 26.4 million according to the labor department. 16 million people are receiving unemployment right […]
As of this week, the number of infected New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19 complications has surpassed similar outcomes in many countries, including China. Geneticists and researchers from two separate teams and investigations revealed this week that they believe that the total number of infected, both living and deceased, is a lot higher. They […]
Music icon Whitney Houston will her life, made into a movie. The film, titled “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” will have Pat Houston (Whitney Houston’s sisters-in-law) and Clive Davis (who discovered Houston), working together on producing the bio pic. In statement released “The Estate of Whitney Houston is more than elated to be involved with […]
On Monday, April 6, a local Rochester member of the community and registered nurse, Olivia Goodwin, started orientation for her new role treating COVID-19 positive patients who require long-term care in Milford, New Jersey. Goodwin has been a registered nurse for the last four years in primarily operating environments. She previously worked at Rochester General […]
Christian Smalls, a black Amazon warehouse worker, was fired after he led a walkout of many employees at Amazon’s distribution warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon insists that Smalls was not fired because he led the protest, but because he violated a company policy that imposes a 14-day quarantine on employees who come in contact with […]
As the self-dubbed “people’s lawyer,” Letitia James pledged in her 2018 campaign for Attorney General of New York that “I am not about privilege or politics. I’m about people … I won’t stop working for you.” In the past couple of months, as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted New York, her […]
Many local governments across the United States are trying different methods to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. In some places big corporations like Walmart, Target, and Costco’s are not allowing the sale of nonessential goods. Local governments are instructing them to either not stock or rope off certain areas in their store that has […]
Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing a new initiative called the “Heroes Fund.” The program is a push for higher pay for all frontline employees working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Schumer is pushing for the proposal to get all essential workers in New York State including healthcare & grocery store employees to get a pay […]
On Monday, March 30, President Donald Trump explained during an afternoon press conference that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved late Sunday night a new disinfection device designed by Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, that has the ability to clean approximately 120,000 N95 masks per day. The FDA had previously placed restrictions on […]