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“Me being pregnant, I needed the flexibility. If I’m not feeling good, I’m going to go home.”

The results add local data to growing evidence the coronavirus pandemic and its economic blows have fallen unevenly across racial and demographic groups.

“If we would order a cap for a bottle, normally we would receive that material in two to three weeks. That [now] has been pushed out to almost three months.”

The inefficiency was caused by state lawmakers who chose to distribute most of the money by population rather than the actual number of renters in each county.

When asked about the nation’s economy, most Americans would probably not have much good to say about it.

Roughly 1,400 workers at Kellogg’s four U.S. cereal plants have been on strike since Oct. 5.

The shortages, caused by low wages and razor-thin profit margins, have ripple effects that reach far beyond the classroom and affect everyone.

In a separate survey of employers, payrolls in Pennsylvania grew in October by 19,000, to closer to 5.8 million.