UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the global community on Thursday about the potential for the coronavirus pandemic to become a “human rights crisis.” In a video message posted on his Twitter account, Guterres said that while the coronavirus does not discriminate, its impacts do. The UN chief pointed to existing ...
Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus. More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, the government said Thursday. In all, roughly ...