Millions of financially strapped Americans could lose electricity and other utilities as moratoriums on power cuts expire
Alana Semuels
Semuels is a senior correspondent at TIME covering the consumer side of healthcare. She previously wrote about economics and business news. She is a four-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and she has won awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers and the Los Angeles Press Club.
The drive to replace humans is accelerating as companies struggle to avoid workplace infections of COVID-19 and keep operating costs low.
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended businesses across the world, but it has been good for Amazon. Now, CEO Jeff Bezos will face questions at a House antitrust hearing.
Enhanced unemployment benefits provided consolation for millions of Americans who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. But those benefits could soon expire.
Many places in America have become more segregated in the past three decades. That has left Black Americans behind economically.
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The coronavirus pandemic is forcing more unemployed people into gig work, driving down the amount freelancers can earn for jobs.
No income, major medical bills and an unknown end date. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragility of America’s safety net.
Debt-collectors continue to garnish wages and pursue unpaid debts, plunging the poorest of us into financial ruin
A pandemic wasn't the way SEIU President Mary Kay Henry envisioned a labor revolution, but she's making sure her members fight for their rights amid the outbreak.
Lawyers say they've seen a flood of illegal evictions since the financial crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19.
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As the coronavirus fuels the financial crisis, many Americans fear they never will recover, despite the funds promised in the CARES Act.
The package that is supposed to help people through the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus only applies to federal student loans.
Uncertainty over how long the coronavirus will be here makes it impossible for businesses and consumers to plan ahead
Even introverts crave some social interaction, but remote work mandated by the coronavirus is making that a challenge.
The spread of the coronavirus exposes a widening chasm in the U.S. economy between college-educated workers and less-educated workers.
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