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Approximately 710,000 Ohio households don’t have any Internet service at home, leaving them unable to connect to work, school, health care or shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Walz said the state would restart its economy once it was testing 5,000 people for coronavirus each day. Since the beginning of the virus, the state has tested fewer than 38,000 people in total.
Los Angeles County is bracing for sales tax revenue losses of 50 to 75 percent, while other counties are furloughing workers and planning to cut back on vital public services. Reserves might cushion the blow.
The pandemic has raised concerns about keeping this year’s voting process healthy and safe. Allowing voters to send in their ballots by mail could be the answer, but it will be costly and some worry about potential fraud.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said of the United States’ lack of critical testing and tracing systems that would be needed to reopen the nation's economy in a safe and healthy manner. (AP News — April 14, 2020)
The proportional drop in driving direction requests from California's Bay Area in the two months ending April 12 based on data from Apple Maps to better understand the effectiveness of stay-at-home and social distancing orders across the world. Apple will report data from 63 countries and regions.
Daytona Beach, Fla., police are using drones with speaker equipment to remind residents that public gatherings are prohibited during social distancing. Some Mass. police are impressed and may adopt similar methods.
Scammers prey on consumers in a time when many people are desperately seeking health and fiscal assistance. The Federal Trade Commission has received nearly 17,000 coronavirus-related fraud complaints so far.
Pennsylvania will join five other states in coordinating plans to reopen their economies after the coronavirus outbreak has subdued. The aligned efforts are aimed at preventing neighboring states from enacting policies that conflict.
Clay Jenkinson, Governing’s editor-at-large and humanities scholar on Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, tells us how literature and history can help inform leaders in this time of global national crisis.
David Rocah, senior staff attorney of the Maryland ACLU, said of Baltimore's approval of a pilot aerial surveillance program run by the city police department. (The Hill — April 9, 2020)
The record highest combined age of the two major-party presidential candidates. The 2020 number breaks the previous record set in 2016.
Thousands of Floridians are desperately waiting for their unemployment benefits as the state’s system falls further behind. The state hopes to process 80,000 claims this week, though the backlog is more than 560,000.
While overall sales are down, grocery sales might have increased, which would be good for the city’s revenue. While officials expect some declines, overall they are optimistic about the strength of the financial reserves.
Many state, local governments must adjust their budgets as the coronavirus pandemic has choked off much of their revenue streams. Budgets in larger communities will likely rebound faster, but smaller ones will feel the impact for months to come.
Social distancing has inspired people to turn to social media for support and connection, especially when it comes to health updates. But this also allows researchers to track the spread and predict hospitalizations.
Gov. Whitmer has defended her “stay home” order by saying it prioritizes Michigan’s “health and safety.” Others claim that it’s devastating the state’s economy beyond repair, thereby “ruining our livelihoods.”
As Congress considers further financial help for victims of the coronavirus pandemic, the magnitude of the fiscal crisis that governors and their states will have to face is just starting to emerge.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is pursuing a goal of 100 percent renewable energy by including the world’s first utility-scale hydrogen power plant in its energy mix.
Schools need to be better positioned for the next crisis. That means making technology available, preparing students and teachers for online learning, and bringing an equity focus to assessment tools.
Every work system has its point of constraint, and that's the place to focus on to increase the organization's capacity. You're only as good as your weakest link.
Spending vast amounts on a crash program now won't help those who've lost their livelihoods to the coronavirus pandemic. We need to take the time for sensible planning to do it right.
Mike Bowen, owner of Prestige Ameritech, the country's No. 1 maker of hospital surgical masks, on expectations that he would respond to national emergencies selflessly only to lose business to foreign firms when crises pass so customers — including the federal and other governments — can save pennies per mask. (Dallas News — April 3, 2020)
The amount lost due to coronavirus-related consumer fraud during the first nine days of April. The Federal Trade Commission reported that only $4.8 million was lost during the first three months of the year.
The Ann Arbor, Mich., company, Voxel51, is using data from street cameras to measure social distancing across the world. The company hopes the data gets put to good use, “even if it's only public awareness.”
California acts on its own in many ways but the state is still limited legally, administratively and financially by the federal government. Combatting the coronavirus seems like a tug-of-war between the two.
The current public health crisis has complicated the relationship between an employer’s need to know and an employee’s patient privacy. “I’m sure that in some of these cases, we’ll see litigation out of this crisis.”
Self-quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, Miami’s mayor kept a daily video journal on Twitter, setting a standard of transparency while creating a sense of social media intimacy in a time of social distancing.
Gig workers are largely ineligible for company unemployment assistance and health care which means many continue working despite virus-like symptoms. Some sick workers keep going because, “what would these people do if I didn’t do it?”
Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at HIS Markit, on the financial impact of the coronavirus and how it will take a while before the nation returns to a stable economic position. (AP News — April 9, 2020)
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