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March 26, 2020
Online Store Still Open- Coach
Although their physical store locations have closed indefinitely, Coach sent out an email to inform people that their online stores are still accepting orders. Even though clients may not be able to shop in the physical space, it allows the company to continue making money while serving customer needs. -
2020-06-14
Local Business Defeat
This is a picture of our venues calendar in May. All of the white out spots that you see are dates which couples either chose to cancel/postpone their wedding, or our venue staff was forced under mandates to tell them they had to reschedule. It has been a very messy battle that included two law suits and endless disappointment on our venue's end and especially on the couples end. COVID-19 is robbing people of their mile stones and we are so ready for it all to be over. This is also a good example of how detrimental COVID-19 has been on small businesses. The amount of money they have lost makes it extremely hard to stay afloat. -
2020-05-26
Homeless being turned away as cool weather pushes Safe Space shelter to capacity
As Tasmanians, saturated in the flood of online media content, look on at the state of the world, feelings range from extreme anxiety, compassion with those in crisis centres, to smug repose (“at least we are not in that country”). This last response seems particularly rife today, but it struggles to conceal an inherent coldness which we don’t otherwise normally like to attribute to ourselves. Not only does this attitude overlook that fact that we have our own dead, or that the cost of life is of a value that far outpaces numerical value (comparing our figures with death-tolls in other places), we ignore those without home in the very place in which all of us are meant to dwell together. Prior to the lockdown, Tasmania’s capital city Hobart underwent a housing crisis. But as we wait on Canberra to get things moving along - exactly as they were before or, even better than before - we should keep in mind that not everything is possible just because money is behind it. To return to the housing crisis: this challenges all of us to think about our responsibility towards those forgotten in our own home. Genuine responsibility begins with compassion, not money. I feel like, too often, we reverse the formula. -
2020-05-12
LGBTQ people face higher unemployment amid coronavirus pandemic, survey finds
Surveys conducted by the Human Rights Campaign and PSB research demonstrate the vulnerability faced by the LGBTQ community during this crisis. LGBTQ people of color are disproportionately impacted by unemployment amid COVID-19. It's hard to process that these issues are present during an international crisis. At many times, it feels like the LGBTQ community is fighting a two front war. #ASU #HST580 -
2020-04-16
Journal of a Walmart employee
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2020-05-01
Potential way to make money during corona virus
It is a screenshot of a postmates notification showing high volumes of activity, which gives extra pay for the drivers. -
2020-04-29
Online Shopping
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, I have not been able to leave my house and go to the store. Personally, I love to go shopping and walk around various malls and outlet centers. But, due to COVID-19, I’ve been forced to shop elsewhere. Because I haven’t been visiting traditional stores, I have been purchasing a lot more stuff online. I usually shop online occasionally, but now I’m shopping on online stores almost every day. Since I’ve been away from school, my number of online purchases has grown. In the past two weeks, I have purchased makeup, makeup brushes, a jewelry box, cleaning supplies for my Pandora bracelet, printed photos, and a photo album. Needless to say, I’ve been buying quite a lot. Shopping online can be dangerous because you can’t see the money directly leaving your account and you can forget how much you have really spent. The stress of COVID-19 and having to finish my college semester at home has pushed me to shop more. COVID-19 has not only been dangerous to everyone’s health, but also to their wallets. -
03/22/2020
Bar Owner Pays Unemployed Staff, Jefferson Parish, LA
Bar owner uses money stapled to the walls of bar to pay unemployed staff.