essential workers

March 18, 2021 | 7:38 AM

Essential, unemployed, overstretched: How the COVID economy crashed on women

As the coronavirus pandemic turns one, researchers have found women have lost decades of economic progress, but some have also found a new voice in advocating for better family and work policies.

By Laura Benshoff/Keystone Crossroads

March 9, 2021 | 7:29 AM

‘We’re fighting for a public health safety issue’: Pa. nurses unions went toe-to-toe with management on hospital staffing ratios

Studies show that, for nurses, adequate staffing grids can reduce burnout. For patients, proper nurse staffing is associated with better health outcomes. Poor staffing ratios are correlated with a higher occurrence of infection in hospitals.

By Kenny Cooper/WHYY

March 3, 2021 | 8:01 AM

Essential workers are 55% more likely to get COVID-19, study of Philly-area residents finds

In Pennsylvania, jobs considered essential include those in health care, public transit, agriculture, and food processing.

By Miles Bryan/WHYY

February 16, 2021 | 8:09 AM

Home care industry strained by pandemic

The PHI National Workforce Data Center, a research center on direct care professionals, projects more than 341,000 unfilled jobs in home health care in Pennsylvania by 2028.

By Madison Karas/WHYY

January 15, 2021 | 7:46 AM

Flyers to honor frontline families with VIP treatment at every home game

“Essential and frontline workers throughout the Philadelphia region are sacrificing so much for our community,” said Valerie Camillo, president of business operations for the Flyers and Wells Fargo Center.

By Maria Pulcinella/WHYY

January 14, 2021 | 7:43 AM

Popular but underfunded hazard pay program helped many, left others behind

The program used $50 million in federal CARES Act money to pay an extra $3 per hour to essential workers who earn less than $20 an hour. It lasted 10 weeks, from late summer to early fall.

By An-Li Herring, Kate Giammarise/WESA

December 26, 2020 | 11:45 AM

How the pandemic turned an introvert into a voice for gig workers

Gig workers have found a voice

By Shannon Bond/NPR

July 9, 2020 | 6:54 AM

‘We were treated worse than animals’: Disaster recovery workers confront COVID-19

"These workers are essential, but no one behaves like it."

By Joel Rose, Marisa Peñaloza/NPR

July 1, 2020 | 6:08 AM

When essential workers earn less than the jobless: ‘We put the country on our back’

By Alina Selyukh/NPR

June 5, 2020 | 7:31 AM

Teens as ‘essential’ workers: How high schoolers stepped up for family during COVID-19

For thousands of Philadelphia-area teenagers, the end of the school year brings relief: a break from balancing work as a student and an “essential worker.”

By Miles Bryan/Keystone Crossroads

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