essential workers

Despite the hardships and health risks essential workers are facing in the pandemic, many profitable companies are still not paying them a living wage. Molly Kinder of the Brookings Institution joined LX News to discuss why companies, and particularly the retailers that have thrived during the pandemic, should be offering hazard pay to workers risking their health and the health...

The pandemic has highlighted how many people in America are living close to the financial edge. For years, working one full-time job has not been enough for many minimum wage workers to get by. Should a full-time job in America guarantee a living wage? NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway explores how the system is working against our essential workers.

Some of Amazon’s 500,000 warehouse workers are attempting to fill the information gap by compiling data on outbreaks at facilities across the U.S.

As the first wave of coronavirus cases peaked in the Northeast U.S. this spring, eight healthcare workers from New York City and across the country shared their intimate experiences fighting the virus — through exhaustion, grief and fear.

Jordan Kudlak works as a nurse in a Covid-19 unit in South Carolina and has seen firsthand how coronavirus can be serious—or fatal—for both the old and young. And now that she has contracted the virus herself, she has personally experienced how easy the virus is to catch, even if you take every precaution.

Essential workers are lauded for their service and hailed as everyday heroes

After coronavirus outbreaks at Tyson Foods plants, the company kept its facilities open with new precautions, including plastic barriers and temperature checks. But workers say those measures are not enough. The New York Times spoke to Tyson Foods workers who explained how the conditions within these plants — and particularly the speed of the production line — make social distancing impossible.

Ana Wilkinson, a traveling nurse who treated COVID-19 patients in New York City at the height of the city’s crisis, says people who deny the reality of coronavirus or refuse to wear a mask are disrespecting the sacrifices of health workers.

You can hear buzzing from a backyard in Farmington most days of the week: It’s the sound of creativity born in a time of crisis. When Senan Gorman, the graphic designer by trade, found his work slowing to a halt amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided to use his newfound free time to take up a new skill — chainsaw…

Tiki Task Force carves Tiki statues to sell locally and use the money to buy lunches for Healthcare Workers, Nursing Home Staff and group home staff.
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One Farmington family decided to do their part during the coronavirus pandemic by carving and selling tiki art to raise money to help feed healthcare workers.

At St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Queens, New York, doctors, nurses and morgue workers describe the toll the coronavirus crisis has taken on their institution – and on each of them personally. The New York Times went inside the hospital 48 days after its first COVID-19 case.

A mariachi band thanked fieldworkers in Bakersfield, Calif., for their work during the pandemic with a free concert.

May 1 is National School Lunch Hero Day and it’s taken on an added significance this year so we found some local heroes right here in Connecticut

Some hospitals are opening food pantries or makeshift grocery stores inside their facilities to help staff who don’t have time, don’t want to or can’t afford to go to a grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic.

Under blue skies, New York doesn’t look like a city that desperately needs a lift but it got a much needed one today from a flyover from our nation’s elite pilots

Stop & Shop and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) are calling for grocery store employees to be classified as emergency workers. Stop & Shop has locations throughout the New England area including New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Many employees are still working to restock shelves, bag groceries, and help customers coming in and out of…

The union representing grocery store employees are pushing the state and federal government to reclassify them as emergency workers, which would open access to benefits like subsidized day care and enhanced medical insurance

CoronavirusOnlineTherapy.org is made up of more than 3,500 volunteer therapists providing free or low-cost services to frontline workers in the U.S. The group has received more than 7,000 requests in the last two weeks and a shout-out from actress Kristen Bell.