35.7 Million People Live Alone

05/13/2020

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The U.S Bureau of Labor Department reported that the unemployment claims hit 3.2 million last week as the economic toll from the COVID-19 pandemic continued to mount. The figure bringing the total to 33.5 million over the past 7 weeks. The total was slightly higher than the 3 million expected by median economists surveyed by Dow Jones. Despite, some states started re-opening businesses but a few people are being recalled to work — a little disappointing, said Paul Ashworth, the chief North American economist.

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Work from home trend continues. Manhattan is the biggest business district in the country, and its office towers have become the symbol of the city’s global dominance. But, it’s faces calculation if remote work becomes the norm due to this crisis. Even after the lockdown eases, Nielsen let’s 3,000 workers in the city will no longer need to be in the office full-time and can instead work remotely for most of the week. However, if the companies in Manhattan let employees to work remotely this would affect an entire ecosystem in Manhattan, from public transit to restaurants to shops, according to The New York Times.

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House Democrats on Tuesday proposed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill — an amount that would stand as the largest relief package in history. The legislation includes $1 trillion for state and local governments, a $200 billion fund for essential worker hazard pay, $75 billion for Covid-19 testing and up to $6,000 per household, according to the released by the House Appropriations Committee. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell immediately rejected the House proposal, called it too large and far-reaching.

35.7 M

The coronavirus lockdown and stay-at-home orders have created a loneliness epidemic in the U.S. Nearly 35.7 million people live alone, which means no meaningful social contact at all, potentially for months on end. Studies say that social isolation and loneliness isn’t simple — it can be lethal. Chronic loneliness has clear links to an array of health problems and it is higher than that of obesity and equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day. And as a shelter at home orders become the norm, the problem is set to get worse.

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The US Department of the Interior finally approved the largest solar installation in U.S history. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed the record of decision (ROD) for the developers to construct the $1 billion installation project in Nevada, which is expected to produce 690 megawatts of electricity that could generate enough electricity to power 260,000 households — enough to cover the residential population of Las Vegas.

However, the project construction workforce is expected to average 500 to 700 construction workers, supporting up to an additional 1,100 jobs in the local community and injecting an estimated $712.5 million into the economy as the nation tries to recover from the downturn due the sudden outbreak, said by David Bernhardt.

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The 2-inch killer that’s been dubbed the “Murder Hornet” with an ability to decapitate honey bees and potentially deadly to humans, has been found in the United States, where scientists are in high alert and making plans to wipe out them. In Japan, the murder hornet kills up to 50 people a year, according to The New York Times. This 2-inch hornet the world’s largest — landfall for the first time in the US, said by researchers.

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Wildfires were burned more than a dozen structures of the Florida Panhandle on Thursday. Hundreds of people were told to flee, officials said. In Santa Rosa County, the Five Mile Swamp Fire burned some 2,000 acres east of Avalon Beach and was about 40 percent contained as of midday, fire flames grew as it was fanned by high winds and low humidity, according to the state agriculture department.