Tag: COVID

Crowd of people crossing street wearing COVID masks

Workers who contracted long COVID or suffered the most severe symptoms of the virus felt a big impact on their families’ finances from the resulting disruptions to their work, researchers at the University of South Carolina and Montana State University found. When the adults in families with children experienced long COVID or got so sick…

Man holding shopping basket with bread and milk groceries in supermarket stock photo

For several years before the pandemic, everyone became complacent about an inflation rate hovering reliably around 2 percent. We were jolted from our torpor by the COVID spike in inflation to nearly 9 percent.   Although inflation has come down sharply, the 3 percent rise over the past year is still above pre-pandemic levels. Higher…