Black workers are facing greater health and economic difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study done by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Elise Gould, senior economist at EPI, joined Yahoo Finance to discuss how the coronavirus has disproportionately affected black communities and people of color. “What we’re seeing is that there […]
Blaring ambulances and shuttered stores make visible the illness and economic pain caused by the novel coronavirus, but the widespread mental anguish takes place out of sight. In a newly released interview, American Medical Association President Patrice Harris says...
The coronavirus pandemic has magnified inequities in the health care system and outcomes for minorities, prompting one expert to rail against the “band aid” that’s preserving a broken status-quo. As racially-tinged protests roil the U.S. — and the COVID-19 toll...
Health insurance premium rates are starting to come in for 2021, giving people an idea for what insurance may cost for the first time since the coronavirus crisis began. But not much more than an idea. The first rates proposed and released to the public — from...
The stars seem to be aligning for the kind of expanded government health care program many Democrats have been waiting for. Millions of workers are losing employer-provided insurance along with their jobs, as the coronavirus pandemic forces business closures...
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