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Alli Fam

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COVID-19

Back to work doesn't mean back to spending as before

by Alli Fam
Jul 29, 2020
Two workers share how the pandemic has changed their month-to-month finances.
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My Economy

Shifting the Black hair care industry back into Black hands

by Alli Fam
Jul 28, 2020
Maggie Anderson has dedicated herself to Black economic empowerment by buying from Black-owned businesses. But it isn't easy.
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COVID-19

Older volunteers are a key part of the food bank economy

by Alli Fam
Jul 23, 2020
Why one 86-year-old started volunteering in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Race and Economy

How the decline of Black-owned insurance firms widened the wealth gap

by Kai Ryssdal and Alli Fam
Jul 20, 2020
Many of the agencies survived the Great Depression but later died out. Their loss meant less money invested into Black communities.
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My Economy

Subscription gelato may be one answer to a cool business climate

by Alli Fam
Jul 8, 2020
When impulse buys dropped, Gelateria Uli's owner had to find a new business model to keep the Los Angeles ice creamery afloat.
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My Economy

The San Antonio Museum of Art is glad it kept mask requirements

by Alli Fam
Jun 29, 2020
As cases surge across Texas, the museums's co-interim director reflects on reopening and the safety precautions taken.
Visitors in the galleries of the San Antonio Art Museum.
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COVID & Unemployment

Here's what the crescendo of unemployment sounds like

by Kai Ryssdal and Alli Fam
Jun 24, 2020
Jordan Wirfs-Brock "sonified" data from unemployment claims to give us another way to process historic job losses.
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My Economy

Activism "is built into the DNA of our brand"

by Alli Fam
Jun 9, 2020
Nikoa Evans-Hendricks is a restaurateur and executive director of an entrepreneurs' coalition in Harlem. She talks about the role of Black-owned businesses.
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"A moment of reckoning for the United States at home and abroad"

by Kai Ryssdal and Alli Fam
Jun 9, 2020
The country's coalition-building power overseas has weakened as it focuses on crises at home, researcher Torrey Taussig says.
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My Economy

Unemployment on the Blackfeet Reservation was high before the pandemic, and it's only risen

by Alli Fam
May 28, 2020
"I'd say that unemployment stands at over 60%, and that was before the virus," said Craig Falcon.
Buffalo in Glacier National Park, located right near the Blackfeet Reservation.
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