As the pandemic began to unfold, Veronica O'Kane was working as an ICU nurse in Southfield, Michigan. She was dealing with some pretty serious stuff and not sure she was being fairly compensated.
Because of her work tending to COVID-19 patients, she wasn't able to see her family and friends. O'Kane had met travel nurses — they made more money and received housing and meal stipends.
So, she became a travel nurse. She worked for a few weeks in Maryland. Then she did a longer stint in Texas. Now she's working in Green Bay, Wisconsin. As the pandemic keeps surging in different places, her pay keeps climbing. She's now making $66 an hour. It's double what she was earning in the spring.
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Budget woes mean rethinking mass transit funding - Marketplace
Metro buses in Washington, D.C., started charging for rides again . The fares had been waived since March, letting passengers board through the back doors to keep drivers safe from COVID-19.
Collecting payment again is a sign of how transit systems are just trying to hang on until things go back to normal or, more accurately, the new normal. Things may be different even after the pandemic because people are moving out of cities and office culture is changing. Transit systems may have to adapt.
Algorithms for vaccine distribution have a weakness: the people behind them - Marketplace
Molly Wood: So on top of having this thing that was somewhat flawed, they didn’t audit it, they didn’t really test it? They just sort of were like, “Here you go. Now, shots.”?
Hao: Exactly. The issue is that they didn’t have people who are impacted by this algorithm at the decision-making table. And they didn’t have ways to then quickly iterate and update the algorithm once they realized it was flawed.
Wood: Is vaccine allocation a problem that algorithms are meant to solve, or will it become something that leaders might get to hide behind when inequities inevitably happen?
Three small businesses weigh in on the pandemic holiday season - Marketplace
It’s been a holiday season like no other in recent memory. And while some analysts are optimistic about retail sales over the last few weeks, what’s it been like for the business owners actually making those sales?
Marketplace has been following several small businesses over the course of the holiday retail season. We called them up one last time to see how it went.
"I’ve just looked at December, and we were down a little bit. Not as much as I thought we would be, and I think, compared to other stores, I consider myself very fortunate. I think it could have been a lot worse. I think one of our saving graces were our personal shopping appointments that we had. We probably had a good 70 appointments, all together, and purchases ranged anywhere from about $45 at the low to $1,000. I am anxious to get things in early because of an early Easter.
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Retail pharmacy chains will face vaccine rollout challenges - Marketplace
Retail chains like CVS and Walgreens are administering the COVID-19 vaccine at long-term care facilities right now. But eventually the vaccine will also be available for the rest of us at retail pharmacies. Preparing for that is a huge logistical and staffing challenge.
Retsef Levi at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management said that most pharmacies don't have those.
“They are not very common, they are very expensive and it’s going to be unreasonable to expect that you can actually deploy them to all the stores,” Levi said.
A1 Telekom Austria Group joins HERE Marketplace to expand analytics business
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QuantumScape founder Jagdeep Singh talks with Yahoo Finance after the company's stock fell 40% Tuesday morning.
Alibaba's billionaire co-founder, Jack Ma, is not 'missing', CNBC reported Tuesday, after drawing the ire of the Chinese leadership for critical comments he made during a speech in October.
Police offer tips, and safe location for Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace exchanges |
MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. — In Norton Shores, the police department is offering its brightly lit east parking lot as a safe place to conduct Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace transactions.
The program called "Operation Safe Exchange" started five years ago and has become increasingly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"There's been a huge increase," said Norton Shores Police Sgt. Dan Hibler. "We've seen a lot more traffic this year during the pandemic."
San Ramon: Commission to review plans for 284 apartments at The Marketplace | News |
The San Ramon Planning Commission is set to hold a workshop Tuesday to discuss the design concept for a five-story, 284-unit apartment complex on part of The Marketplace Shopping Center property in central San Ramon.
Proposed by Southern California-based TRC Retail, the project would be located at the existing 12.47-acre commercial and shopping area at 130 Market Place, across Bollinger Canyon Road from San Ramon City Hall.
Building the project would necessitate the demolition of approximately 57,505 square feet of existing retail space -- including Nob Hill Foods, Starbucks, SportClips, a dry cleaners and a pharmacy -- while the rest of the shopping center would remain in place
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