Tag: COVID-19

COVID-19, by rearranging work arrangements, is allowing people to rethink where they live. As the virus started to spread in Manhattan last spring, some residents fled the city and began snapping up houses in Westchester County and on Long Island. There is preliminary evidence some people are moving farther afield, to rural areas where sma…

Long before COVID-19 upended our world, the lives of lower-paid, less-educated workers had already been coming apart. “It’s the other epidemic, but it’s an epidemic that’s been occurring under the radar for a long time,” Anne Case said in her keynote address for the annual meeting of the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium, which was…