ByNew data released Thursday suggests close to one in five Minnesota workers is unemployed or lost work in the past six weeks, a clear sign that the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus, one that has struck with stunning speed, is the worst since the Great Depression.The national picture is similarly grim, with another , bringing the total over the past four weeks to more than 22 million.Loading..."Every piece of evidence that's coming in says that in terms of magnitude, this is comparable right now to the Great Depression from 1929 to 1933," said V.V. Chari, an economist at the...…ByNew data released Thursday suggests close to one in five Minnesota workers is unemployed or lost work in the past six weeks, a clear sign that the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus, one that has struck with stunning speed, is the worst since the Great Depression.The national picture is similarly grim, with another , bringing the total over the past four weeks to more than 22 million.Loading..."Every piece of evidence that's coming in says that in terms of magnitude, this is comparable right now to the Great Depression from 1929 to 1933," said V.V. Chari, an economist at the...WW…

More from the HomepageMillions of chickens have been euthanized, too, with turkeys likely to follow suit. ByandStar TribunemoreCopy shortlink:With COVID-19 battering food supply chains, 10,000 hogs are being euthanized daily in Minnesota. Millions of healthy chickens also have been killed, and thousands of turkeys are likely to be next, the state’s top agriculture official said Tuesday.“It’s about as big as an [agricultural] emergency as you can have, and on many fronts,” said Thom Petersen, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.The closures of several Midwest...…More from the HomepageMillions of chickens have been euthanized, too, with turkeys likely to follow suit. ByandStar TribunemoreCopy shortlink:With COVID-19 battering food supply chains, 10,000 hogs are being euthanized daily in Minnesota. Millions of healthy chickens also have been killed, and thousands of turkeys are likely to be next, the state’s top agriculture official said Tuesday.“It’s about as big as an [agricultural] emergency as you can have, and on many fronts,” said Thom Petersen, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.The closures of several Midwest...WW…

More from the HomepageMore than a dozen drugstores were targeted in rioting; dozens more shut down. ByandStar TribunemoreCopy shortlink:A few dozen pharmacies in the Twin Cities remained closed Tuesday in the aftermath of the riots, a loss of essential services that will take time to resolve and force their customers to look elsewhere for prescriptions.Cristina Pavlik pulled up to the Walgreens at the corner of 46th Street and Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis on Monday to pick up medication for her mom, who has pulmonary disease. But the drugstore, ransacked last week, was boarded...…More from the HomepageMore than a dozen drugstores were targeted in rioting; dozens more shut down. ByandStar TribunemoreCopy shortlink:A few dozen pharmacies in the Twin Cities remained closed Tuesday in the aftermath of the riots, a loss of essential services that will take time to resolve and force their customers to look elsewhere for prescriptions.Cristina Pavlik pulled up to the Walgreens at the corner of 46th Street and Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis on Monday to pick up medication for her mom, who has pulmonary disease. But the drugstore, ransacked last week, was boarded...WW…

More from the HomepageContract farmer forced to lose his 61,000 chickens, and maybe his livelihood. By Star TribunemoreCopy shortlink:Kerry Mergen, a contract egg farmer near Albany, Minn., got word on a Wednesday the chickens in his barn would be euthanized. A crew showed up the next morning and started gassing the birds with carbon dioxide.The sudden drop in demand for food at restaurants, school cafeterias and caterers shut down by the pandemic has ripped through farming. Milk has been dumped, eggs smashed and plowed under.Now, farms are killing animals sooner than planned.Mergen...…More from the HomepageContract farmer forced to lose his 61,000 chickens, and maybe his livelihood. By Star TribunemoreCopy shortlink:Kerry Mergen, a contract egg farmer near Albany, Minn., got word on a Wednesday the chickens in his barn would be euthanized. A crew showed up the next morning and started gassing the birds with carbon dioxide.The sudden drop in demand for food at restaurants, school cafeterias and caterers shut down by the pandemic has ripped through farming. Milk has been dumped, eggs smashed and plowed under.Now, farms are killing animals sooner than planned.Mergen...WW…

More from the HomepageThe only guidance from the federal government has been that meat processors should "consider" tests. ByandStar TribunemoreCopy shortlink:Nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump that meat processors should remain open, thousands of U.S. meatpacking workers are still not being tested for the coronavirus.Pork, beef and poultry laborers have been asked to return to fast-moving, shoulder-to-shoulder meat-cutting lines with no clear idea of who does or does not carry the virus. Across the country, meat factories have been the scenes of the largest outbreaks in the...…More from the HomepageThe only guidance from the federal government has been that meat processors should "consider" tests. ByandStar TribunemoreCopy shortlink:Nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump that meat processors should remain open, thousands of U.S. meatpacking workers are still not being tested for the coronavirus.Pork, beef and poultry laborers have been asked to return to fast-moving, shoulder-to-shoulder meat-cutting lines with no clear idea of who does or does not carry the virus. Across the country, meat factories have been the scenes of the largest outbreaks in the...WW…