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Researchers suggest the poverty rate may reach the highest levels in half a century, hitting African-Americans and children hardest.

The coronavirus pandemic has shown how close to the edge many Americans were living, with pay and benefits eroding even as corporate profits surged.

Economists warn that recovering from the ‘Great Lockdown’ is going to take a long time, and millions of Americans are likely to remain out of a job through the end of the year

Jobless claims exceed 20 million in four weeks, inflicting a toll on the labor force not seen since the Great Depression.

As businesses remain closed during the coronavirus pandemic, an unrelenting jobs crisis continues to push Americans onto unemployment rolls.

By the end of the April, gig workers, people who had job offers revoked because of coronavirus, and others will be able to apply for benefits through a new state program.

Following an outbreak among San Francisco’s homeless, advocates worry smaller communities that have resisted using hotels to ease crowding at homeless shelters, such as West Haven, Conn.; Plymouth, Mass.; and Laguna Woods, Calif., will also experience a similar rapid spread of the highly contagious respiratory disease among their most vulnerable populations.

The portal is separate from the soon-to-be-launched “Get My Payment” portal that the IRS is creating for people who filed their taxes but did not get a tax refund through direct deposit.

“This is a quick enough shock that it could be a huge financial burden on Medicaid systems across the states,” one researcher said.

Florida spends a little less than $9 billion in state funds each year on Medicaid. It spends $14 billion in federal dollars. By comparison New York, an early expansion state with a comparable population, spends $34.2 billion in state and $40.6 billion in federal dollars on Medicaid.

Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern.

The Trump administration approved a request to loosen requirements to access Medicaid programs.

An analysis of U.S. hospital data shows why health officials are seeking more resources to treat coronavirus patients. See how resources in your area compare with the rest of the country.

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The number of unemployed Americans continues to rise as states trying to keep up with the overwhelming amount of claims coming in.

Millions of low-income children who can no longer get free meals at school because of the coronavirus crisis have yet to receive additional federal assistance promised to them by Congress.

The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a record surge in the number of people applying to CalFresh, the state’s food stamp program.

Black people make up about 14% of Michigan’s population, but 40% of all COVID-19 deaths — most of which are in the Detroit metro area.

Obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, all more prevalent in African American communities, are risk factors for coronavirus outcomes.

Homeless shelters are running out of money, supplies and staff.

Of more than 13 million units in the US that the report covered, 69% of renters paid their rent between April 1 and 5, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council. During the same period in April 2019, 82% of households paid their rent on time, the report said.

It costs more to build low-income housing in California than anywhere else in the U.S., and the coronavirus pandemic is likely to make matters worse.

The emergency legislation enacted by Congress with support from Republicans and President Trump has intensified a long-running debate about whether the United States does enough in ordinary times to protect the needy.

With coronavirus-related job losses, many workers are reluctantly seeking charity and unemployment benefits for the first time in their lives.

“We’re talking about 10 million people filing for unemployment insurance in two weeks. Nobody is prepared for that,” said one finance expert.

The hordes of people trying to apply for jobless benefits in Louisiana continue to encounter long delays and the inability to get through online or over the phone.

The Treasury reversed guidance that would have required millions of Social Security recipients to file returns, but many other low-income people will have to submit them.

The coronavirus relief package includes a number of provisions to help low-income Americans. But advocates for the poor say it’s only a first step.

The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a record surge in the number of people applying to CalFresh, the state’s food stamp program.

AUSTIN — Texas’ mega-agency for health care and social services, saying it wants to ease state residents’ worries during the coronavirus emergency, has…

A kind of pandemic caste system is rapidly developing in access to health care, child care, education, living space, even internet bandwidth. From nytimes.com. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/business/economy/coronavirus-inequality.html

Subway use has plummeted in recent weeks, but in poorer areas of New York City, many people are still riding.

More than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report a single positive test result

Crowded camps, depleted clinics and scarce soap and water make social distancing and even hand-washing impossible for millions of refugees.