Victory gardens bloom online in pandemic era
Amid COVID-19, home gardeners revive World War I era ideas to grow food. Virtual groups like Victory Garden 2020 share tips, plants and stories as unemployment rises. In cities, programs like Urban Growers Collective adapt to social distancing while delivering produce to families in need.
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Urban Growers Collective
Chicago
Laurell Sims
Rose Hayden-Smith
Victory Garden
Jennifer McShane
Brooklyn
New York City
McShane
Emanuel Sferios
Las Cruces
New Mexico
Sterios
America
Hayden-Smith
Victory Gardens
Hayden- Smith
National Defense
Charlotte area loses 71000 jobs in first quarter report
Charlotte region shed over 71000 jobs in Q1 reflecting COVID 19 impacts, about 4.8 percent of area employment. The report from the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance notes the decline trails national job losses, with regional job postings down 3.4 percent year over year while time to fill openings rises. North Carolina reports nearly 7000 cases and 179 deaths.
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Charlotte
Charlotte Regional Business Alliance
Chuck McShane
General Motors
Michael Walden
North Carolina State University
Charlotte Observer
North Carolina
Golden Leaf Foundation
Raleigh
Roy Cooper
McShane
Greece sets May reopen for shops and services
Austria plans to reopen all shops in May and restaurants in mid May under a Kurz led plan. Hair salons and manicurists to resume, catering workers to wear masks from May 15, while small shops opened a week earlier. Hertz cuts about 10,000 North American jobs, with $30 million in related costs. Crude and fossil fuel prices drop as energy job cuts begin.
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Austria
Sebastian Kurz
Hertz
North America
Coca Cola volumes drop 25 percent in April amid pandemic
Coca-Cola reported a 25 percent global volume decline in April as the coronavirus shuttered theaters, restaurants, concerts, and other venues. CEO James Quincey warned the second quarter and full year 2020 would be affected, with a partial rebound hoped for in the second half.
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Coca-Cola Co
James Quincey
China
Coke
Europe
Americas
Africa
North America
India
Quincey
Georgia
Atlanta
Shanghai
Costa Coffee
United Kingdom
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