Inequality, Opportunity and Poverty

COVID Divide

How the coronavirus stimulus favors the well-connected.

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December 18, 2020

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

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December 11, 2020

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

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December 9, 2020

Without financial assistance, renters are on the brink of eviction, financial ruin

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December 2, 2020

Bigger firms got their PPP loans early. Smaller ones in urgent need had to wait.

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