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How a Charlotte Cafe Is Helping People Recovering From Addiction With Jobs and ‘Relentless Love'
A cafe in Charlotte, North Carolina, is giving people recovering from addiction a fresh start. The Community Matters Cafe partners with the Charlotte Rescue Mission to offer jobs and life skills to people leaving its treatment program. The café’s chief operating officer, Ed Price, joined LX News to discuss how the business is putting purpose over profit.
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Are We In A Recession?
We are seeing sky-high unemployment numbers, yet at the same time, Wall Street has risen sharply since the coronavirus shutdown. Have we really gone through a recession? A recession, by the strictest definition of the word, is two straight quarters of negative national economic output, measured by something called GDP, or gross domestic product. By that measure, people who...
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Are We In A Recession?
Have we really gone through a recession?
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CT LIVE!: Aware Recovery Care – The Role of Family
Family Wellness Manager Laura Perry explains the importance of family when someone is in recovery.
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Connecticut Job Recovery Underway?
Unemployment in our state appears to have topped out around 19% in mid-May, a figure released by the Connecticut Department of Labor this week. Call it the “pandemic peak,” something Connecticut DOL research director Andy Condon discussed with NBC Connecticut. “It looks like the process of job recovery is beginning. It looks like we have seen the worst of...
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Connecticut Hospice Celebrates Sending COVID-19 Patient Home
For some, hospice is a last stop before the end of life. But for a Milford woman who beat the coronavirus, it proved to be the last stop before she got to go home. “People hear hospice and they think it’s a one way street into this place and I think we’ve proven it time and time again that’s...
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Connecticut Hospice Celebrates Sending COVID-19 Patient Home
An 82-year-old Milford woman beat COVID-19 and is finally heading home to her family.
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The Coronavirus Recovery Forecast Is Lengthening to ‘Months If Not Years'
As President Donald Trump promises a quick comeback from the coronavirus pandemic and the country tentatively starts to reopen, many are hoping for what some are calling a V-shaped recovery. That’s where the economic uptick happens as quickly as the downturn. But Financial and economic analyst Jim Lowell doesn’t think that outcome is very likely. He subscribes to another prediction:...
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Coronavirus Story of Survival
Hartford Healthcare shared an amazing story of survival from one of their earliest COVID-19 patients
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Window Visits Reconnect Couple Married 50 Years, Separated by COVID-19
Mimi and Papa, as they asked to be called, celebrated their 50th anniversary in New Zealand last year. Now, the couple, college sweethearts, is separated by glass. “I have not seen him since he left me on the seventh of April,” said Mimi who resides in Weston with her husband. She said doctors told her Papa suffered a stroke after…
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Exhaustion, Uncertainty Mark Coronavirus Survivors' Journeys
The virus that has sickened over 4 million people around the world and killed more than 250,000 others is so new that patients face considerable uncertainty about what they can expect in recovery and beyond