Tag: pandemic
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…
Fewer people with disabilities applied for federal benefits during COVID. The main reason for the drop could’ve been anything from the ease of working at home to evade the virus to the difficulty of applying after Social Security closed its field offices during the pandemic. But fewer applicants does not point to progress. In fact,…
