With the unemployment rate at 11.1% and businesses shut down in every state, COVID-19 has taken a crippling toll on America’s economic health. MORE: Small businesses rethink their approach amid the pandemic to serve their customers For many small businesses, which comprise 47% of private-sector payrolls in the U.S., according […]
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Emily Brown was stretched thin. As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 12- and 14-hour days, struggling to respond to the pandemic with only five full-time employees for more than 11,000 residents. Case counts were rising. Full coverage of the […]