Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/2020/05/)
Child care is primarily funded through private payments from families to those who provide care. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, many providers will need government help to stay afloat.
With the economy on lockdown, unemployment in April jumped to 15 percent, up from 3.7 percent a year earlier.
The Rochester Beacon and Upstate Venture Connect are presenting a June 4 online discussion with the county executives from Monroe, Onondaga and Oneida counties.
Museums and other cultural nonprofits have been hit hard by the pandemic. Their strategies for surviving it focus on prudent financial management and programming innovation.
The initiative launched by United Way, the Community Foundation and other partners already has disbursed nearly $1.7 million.
The pandemic has forced nonprofits that provide free or low-cost medical care to low-income residents to make dramatic changes.
Rochester was as ready as possible for COVID-19. But the risk of a secondary surge means we must not relax precautions without adequate controls.
In first full month of the statewide coronavirus lockdown, the Rochester area lost roughly 20 percent of total jobs.
After five years as leader of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative, he has chosen a different path to combat racial and economic inequities.
A new paper co-written by a UR professor contends it’s unlikely the pandemic’s economic damage can be reversed simply by lifting stay-at-home orders.