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Category: COVID Divide

How the coronavirus stimulus favors the well-connected.

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How racism and inequality created COVID-19’s ‘Viral Underclass’

Avatar photo by María Inés Zamudio October 14, 2022October 13, 2022

We share the planet with over 380 trillion viruses right now. Some of these powerful pathogens can kill us and even bring the world to a halt  — as the novel coronavirus did in 2020.  Viruses teach us how “undeniably connected we are and how important it is to care for one another,” according to […]

Dylyn Price of Athens, Ga., looks out a doorway from her kitchen at her rented townhome.
Posted inCOVID Divide

More than $425 million promised for rental assistance didn’t make it to tenants or their landlords

Taylor Johnston by Sarah Kleiner, Taylor Johnston and Michael Casey June 29, 2021July 6, 2023
Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality

Kansas City businesses haunted by redlining legacy amid the pandemic

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 25, 2021January 28, 2022
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What to know about the Paycheck Protection Program before your chance to get it runs out

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 25, 2021January 28, 2022
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How we analyzed PPP loans in Kansas City

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One home, many generations: States addressing COVID risk among families

Avatar photoTaylor Johnston by April Simpson, Susan Ferriss, Taylor Johnston and Pratheek Rebala March 26, 2021January 28, 2022
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Map: COVID put America’s multigenerational homes at higher risk

by The Center for Public Integrity March 26, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inCOVID Divide

These companies took $1.8 billion in federal aid to save jobs. They laid off 90,000 workers anyway.

Avatar photoTaylor Johnston by Alexia Fernández Campbell , Joe Yerardi and Taylor Johnston December 18, 2020February 28, 2023
Posted inCOVID Divide

PPP loans were supposed to prioritize low-income areas during the pandemic. They didn’t.

Avatar photoTaylor Johnston by Jamie Smith Hopkins, Taylor Johnston and Pratheek Rebala December 11, 2020January 28, 2022
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Without financial assistance, renters are on the brink of eviction, financial ruin

by Sarah Kleiner December 9, 2020January 28, 2022
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Bigger firms got their PPP loans early. Smaller ones in urgent need had to wait.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins December 2, 2020January 28, 2022
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Judge orders release of PPP loan info after Public Integrity lawsuit

by The Center for Public Integrity November 5, 2020January 28, 2022
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Trump attacks them. COVID-19 threatens them. But immigrants keep the U.S. fed.

Avatar photo by Susan Ferriss and Joe Yerardi September 28, 2020February 28, 2023
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Posted inDemocracy

Embattled Las Vegas telemarketer got COVID-19 business loans

by Sarah Kleiner and Chris Zubak-Skees August 14, 2020January 28, 2022
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McDonald’s, Marriott franchises didn’t pay COVID-19 sick leave. That was illegal.

by Alexia Fernández Campbell  August 3, 2020January 28, 2022
Eviction during the coronavirus pandemic
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Communities of color poised to lose their homes as eviction moratoriums lift

by Sarah Kleiner and Pratheek Rebala July 22, 2020January 28, 2022
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Small business loan data includes little about race

by Kathryn Kranhold and Chris Zubak-Skees July 6, 2020January 28, 2022
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Center for Public Integrity sues for information on $700 billion bailout package

by The Center for Public Integrity June 19, 2020January 28, 2022
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Las latinas están sufriendo más que nadie del impacto económico del coronavirus

by Alexia Fernández Campbell  June 5, 2020January 28, 2022
Latinas attend food drive
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Even with positive jobs report, Latinas still hardest hit by COVID-19 slowdown. Here’s why.

by Alexia Fernández Campbell  June 5, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inInequality

COVID-19 didn’t affect this company financially. It still got a $893k federal loan

by Kathryn Kranhold and Joe Wertz May 8, 2020January 28, 2022

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