Self-Employed Workers Are Struggling to Get Unemployment Benefits
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, some in NC continue to report that they're struggling to access the state's unemployment benefits.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, some in NC continue to report that they're struggling to access the state's unemployment benefits.
“For you to get on the bus ... and cough several times without covering up your mouth and you know (we're) in the middle of a pandemic — that lets me know that some folks don't care,” bus driver Jason Hargrove said in a passionate video.
Despite some evidence that warm weather has some effect on the virus, studies are not conclusive and complacency could have “disastrous results.”
The FDA's previous rules barred donations from men who have had sex with a man in the previous year.
With the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering K-12 schools across North Carolina, state leaders will soon consider ways to make up weeks of lost instruction time. But tourism advocates aren’t waiting to make their case for maintaining students’ traditional summer break.
Under the ACA, people who experience “qualifying life events,” such as losing their jobs, can enroll in a health insurance plan on the individual markets.
In Macomb County, Michigan, people flushing disposable wipes is wreaking havoc on the Red Run Drain. Experts say coronavirus germs could linger on these wipes washing up into residents’ backyards.
"I didn’t sign up to go into battle without battle gear. What good is it going to do if we all soldier on and get sick?
The latest report from the Labor Department released Thursday shows the figure for last week is much higher than the previous record of 3.3 million reported for the previous week.
North Carolina is home to more than 46,000 farms, but the pandemic has forced farmers to adjust to disappearing restaurant and wholesale accounts, shuttered farmers’ markets or strict rules for selling to customers.