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Nearly a year after the coronavirus outbreak, the full effect of the pandemic on the U.S. economy remains unclear. Some of the most obvious indicators are in conflict: As some companies report enormous profits, nearly 10 million more Americans are now unemployed compared with last February, and more than 1 million filed new unemployment claims last week.
Are we still in the early stages of a long recession, or will the rollout of vaccines mean we will soon see the end of a short-term crisis? How much are people suffering now, and for how long will the effects of the past 10 months persist?
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has decided, with little input from the campus community and absolutely no input from the wider Champaign County community, to take on a vanity-driven project: to be the first university to commission a nuclear microreactor. Residents of Champaign County should soundly reject this reckless and dangerous project. The plan to build a nuclear power plant on campus has been sold as a shortcut to meeting campus carbon reduction goals. (You will notice that the original document does not call for nuclear power.) University administration needs a shortcut because they are unable to conserve adequately, continue to build less-than-energy-efficient buildings, and maintain operating the energy-gobbling Petascale facility, to name a few reasons.
Nick Holden and his family are fully aware of how fortunate they ve been amid the coronavirus pandemic, but they also understand that many others aren t in the same position.
So, when Holden s mom, Jackie, suggested that her son and his teammates do a food drive, the Hanover Central guard was eager to put her idea in motion. It was a great thing to see and to do to give back to the community, Holden said. Last year, our community really came together during all of our games and our sectional run and all of that, and it was just a lot of love shown (towards us). So, anytime we can give back to where we come from, we ll do it.