Economics
The Back-to-Work Math Gets Messy for America’s Newly Unemployed
Many see new benefits, health risks as reason to stay off work.
Workers wearing protective gear give customers pedicures at a newly reopened nail salon in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 24.
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Riley Crutchfield, a hairdresser in Macon, Georgia, is nervous about going back to a job that requires her to touch people all day. In Houston, former Waffle House trainee manager Maxime Pierre has election-year politics and risk-reward tradeoffs in mind. In Angie Barksdale’s Michigan home, it’s the three kids without a school to go to.