Posted12/19/2020 7:00 AM
CHICAGO Cynthia McDonald s son Joseph Wilson contracted Covid-19 in late March while serving a life sentence for first-degree murder and attempted robbery at the Stateville Correctional Center, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. McDonald said she found out that he had been taken away from the prison in an ambulance when she received a phone call from her nephew, who d been contacted by a prison guard who was a friend of Wilson s.
But the mother, who lives in the Auburn Gresham community on Chicago s South Side, said prison officials never formally notified her that Wilson had been hospitalized with the deadly virus. She also has alleged that corrections officials kept her in the dark as his health waned.
For-profit publishers solicit more grants and donors, while nonprofits look for more earned revenues; DEI-led startups get funding and support
2020 was a very bad year for local businesses in America during the COVID-19 pandemic. By July, more than 420,000 small businesses across the country had closed permanently, according to Stephen Hamilton, an assistant professor of economics at George Washington University. Hamilton believes that 13% of U.S. restaurants permanently closed, leaving 1.4 million people unemployed.
Meanwhile, local publishers had more news than ever to cover, with a lot less local advertising support. How did they survive and thrive during such a challenging year? They made lemonade from pandemic lemons.
Iowa hospitals’ financial losses mount amid COVID-19
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By Lyle Muller / IowaWatch
Iowa hospitals lost an estimated $433 million in March through October because of COVID-19, the Iowa Hospital Association said in a report released Wednesday, Dec. 16.
The association reported that the state’s hospitals have spent $1.25 billion to equip hospitals for and to care for people with the highly contagious coronavirus that has killed 3,354 Iowans and 307,076 Americans.
Provider relief funds from federal government stimulus programs offset much of those costs and were included in the calculations that resulted in the loss estimate, the association reported. The projection did not include money from some federal programs, like the Paycheck Protection Program and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or state funding, the association reported.
A global consensus around the kind of news we need to save
“Things are moving, and consumers are part of it, too. They are finding real news, sticking with it, and putting their dollars behind it.”
We’ve been obsessed this year about battling misinformation and, worse, disinformation. With good cause. But there’s another fight going on right alongside, and it’s a constructive one. Consumers and countries are launching an offensive to save sources of fact-based news: the kind of trusted reporting that helps people stay safe in a pandemic, decide to vote, volunteer for a cause they believe in, or simply connect with their neighbors.
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