Essential Business
Types of businesses that are suffering the most during coronavirus.
What are small/family businesses?
Avoiding further contamination by physically keeping space between yourself and other people outside your home
What is social distancing?
African Americans have been most affected in several ways.
What is the race that has been impacted the most by coronavirus?
Those experiencing the highest level of anxiety symptoms, exhaustion, financial worries, and detachment from others.
What are hospital employees?
This bill is designed to help lessen the damage of COVID-19 and provided 2.2 trillion dollars to aid the U.S. economy.
What is the CARES Act?
Essential business workers who have the highest risk of being exposed to the coronavirus.
What are the medical field and healthcare workers?
People who work from home who need the internet, usually in the fields of management, business, or corporate.
What are white-collar jobs?
30 million children from low socioeconomic houses received their meals from school.
What is a problem that arose due to the closing down of schools?
Keep in contact with friends and family through social media, video chatting and instant messaging
What are some ways to mitigate feelings of isolation?
The government relief for small business takes this from.
What are government-sponsored loans and grants?
One type of business that is suffering because people are ordered to stay home and it is not considered an essential business.
What is the entertainment industry?
(Movies, amusement parks, arcades, etc.)
Only 20 percent of African Americans, 16 percent of LatinX can work at home. 52 percent of those have a college degree or higher and 4 percent have less than a high school diploma.
What is intersectionality and racial/educational inequality?
An emerging body of research has revealed that women’s bodies are better at fighting off infection, thanks to the hormones in their systems and the genes on their two X chromosomes.
Of more than 3,600 deaths in 13 states and New York City that report fatalities by gender, say the majority of victims are men.
What are the ways that gender has an impact on who is being affected by the virus?
post-traumatic stress symptoms, confusion, and anger.
What are the possible psychological effects of quarantine?
These industries/Firms received the largest chunks of funding.
What are Airlines, Auto Manufactures, and Boeing?
After a lawsuit by activists in L.A., this business is now considered an essential business.
What are gun/ammunition stores?
47 percent of the bottom quarter of American wage earners have access to paid sick leave compared to 90 percent of the top quarter. 86 percent of US workers are employed in service industry jobs. However, the bottom quarter will not be able to practice those benefits.
What is social stratification?
72% of people who died of coronavirus were black
Black US households are more likely to be food insecure, with one in five families lacking consistent access to enough food
Black Americans have more existing medical issues, less access to health care, and are more likely to work in unstable jobs
What are factors that have made the coronavirus pandemic disproportionately hurt blacks more?
The feelings of irritability, listlessness, and similar symptoms resulting from long confinement or isolation indoors
What is "cabin fever"?
These advantages gave some firms quicker access to government funding.
What is where they banked, the size of the bank, and existing loan relations?
Many of these are considered an essential business, even when they aren’t. They still benefit from laying off workers or cutting the workers’ pay because they know that workers cannot afford to stay home.
What are multinational corporations?
An example of a worker being a commodity
What are cashiers, delivery workers, or transportation services?
Those in lower socioeconomic standing cannot afford to be out of work, May work sick because they need the paycheck, Are unable to social distance due to their position in their career, may not have safe places to “stay home”
What are the ways that class inequality is affecting social distancing?
poor sleep, poor cardiovascular health, lower immunity, depressive symptoms, and impaired executive function.
What are the physical traumas caused by isolation?
Controversy has developed after these large firms received loans under programs intended for small business
What is Shake Shack (10 million in loans) and Ruth Chris Steakhouses (20 million in loans)?