A Black Lives Matter protest more accessible to those in the disabled community is being organized for next Friday in Portsmouth.
As a tragic result of the Coronavirus, tens of millions of Americans, including many New Hampshire citizens, will be unemployed when the Post-Coronavirus Era begins, and their only means of survival will be the trillions of dollars that the federal government will borrow to provide them with survival distributions.
MIS-C was first reported in May in New York City, and there is still little known about the full scope of the disorder that strikes children, but it has been linked to COVID-19 and displays symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease -- a rare pediatric inflammatory disease that can lead to toxic shock and coronary-artery aneurysms, according to a June 29 study from the The New England Journal of Medicine.
Another teacher interviewed for this story, who wished to be anonymous, said he, too, had trouble covering the material he normally covers in his classes. He said the material he covered wasn’t even close to what guidelines suggested.
He also said he did a lot of worrying about his students who had tough lives at home. He added many of them didn’t have the necessary resources, including WiFi, printers or a basic grasp of the technology they were being asked to use with no previous training.
The Civil Rights Unit, currently staffed by one full-time attorney, has brought a total of five cases to litigation since it began in December 2017. Assistant Attorney General Sean Locke, the current head of the unit, said that breaks down to one case in 2017, two in 2018, two in 2019, and none yet in 2020. The number of cases brought to court don’t show the full picture, however. Locke said that in 2018 the unit dealt with 40 complaints, resulting in 19 formal reviews being opened. The reviews involve speaking to witnesses, reviewing reports and conducting investigations.
The dynamics of two-parent households have shifted dramatically in the last 20 to 30 years, with men and women contributing income more equally, says Beth Humberd, an assistant professor and expert in gender and the workplace at UMass Lowell's Manning School of Business. Then the pandemic hit. Support structures like daycares, summer camps and afterschool programs collapsed, potentially dissolving the strides women made.
A new surge of COVID-19 infections in southern states has reversed Texas’ and Florida’s statewide reopening plans. New York City announced this week that it would postpone indoor dining indefinitely as infections in other states have been traced to bars and restaurants. New Jersey recently reversed its plan to reopen restaurants for indoor dining.
On May 15, Gov. Chris Sununu announced his authorization for the expenditure of an initial $400 million in emergency relief under the federal CARES Act for New Hampshire small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. The program allocating these expenditures is called the Main Street Relief Fund. To obtain assistance in the program, businesses must submit a prequalification form by May 29 at the website of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery (GOFERR).
Obviously, New Hampshire business owners must devote themselves primarily to managing their day-to-day operations. However, if they are wise, they will also devote a reasonable amount of time to planning for future operations. This should include not only short-term planning, covering perhaps just the next few months, but also long-term planning.
