Tag: COVID-19

When the economy tips into a recession, as it is doing in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of whether parents will give financial help to their adult children could conceivably go either way. Parents looking for some peace of mind might throw a financial lifeline to their struggling or unemployed offspring. Or parents…

The majority of Americans who have health insurance – some 150 million workers – get their coverage through their employers. But this network has suddenly developed a big hole in the midst of a pandemic. The economic shutdown that is suppressing the coronavirus has thrown nearly 30 million people out of work – and taken…