July 9, 2020

'Devastated': As layoffs keep coming, hopes fade that jobs will return quickly

United Airlines says it plans to furlough up to 36,000 employees as the pandemic continues to batter the travel industry and much of the economy. […]
July 8, 2020

SCOTUS allows religious exception to employment laws

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court J. Scott Applewhite/AP A 7-2 Supreme Court carved out a giant exception to the nation’s fair employment laws, […]
July 7, 2020

$200K loan helped MN Senate president's business hang on

Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona, in February 2017. A more than century-old scrap metal business owned by Miller was among hundreds of thousands of businesses nationwide […]
July 6, 2020

4 things to know about rights as you return to work

As the economy starts reopening, employees and businesses around the state are facing myriad concerns and questions about their safety at work.  Could employees catch […]
July 6, 2020

As MN reopens, workers fear COVID exposure, retaliation

Sign up Latest COVID-19 updates in our morning newsletter Back in March, when the first cases of coronavirus in Minnesota started to trickle in to […]
July 6, 2020

Trump admin discloses some PPP recipients

President Trump signs the CARES act, a $2 trillion rescue package to provide economic relief amid the coronavirus outbreak, at the Oval Office of the […]
July 6, 2020

People at higher COVID risk fear losing unemployment

Lauren Van Netta in her apartment in New Orleans. “We don’t have a whole lot of options that don’t involve risking our lives,” she says. […]
July 6, 2020

The return of elective surgeries in Minnesota: A positive sign for the pandemic, economy

Temporary signs warn drivers along 44th Avenue that the entrance to the St. Cloud VA Medical Center is being rerouted to one access point along […]
July 6, 2020

Want to create a better mask? It’s harder than it seams

Brothers Billy (left) and Nick Smith collaborate in the Bilio lab on iterations to current mask designs. Nick Rubalcava | Bilio Five years before the […]
July 6, 2020

Immigrant retailers reopened shops in neighborhood malls. Customers haven’t returned

This story comes to you from Sahan Journal, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to providing authentic news reporting about Minnesota’s new immigrants and refugees. MPR News […]