Author: Paul Davidson, USA TODAY

Here’s how the COVID-19 relief package affects you and the economy. The bill provides lifelines to working Americans, the unemployed, contractors.

It’s not just restaurants and movie theaters that are eliminating jobs. Small businesses of all kinds are laying off workers.

Initial claims for unemployment benefits may total record 2.5 million this week as coronavirus outbreak spreads, according to a Goldman Sachs estimate

Nikki Haley, formerly the governor of South Carolina and US ambassador to the UN, has resigned from Boeing’s board over the company’s bailout request

The Fed will lend to financial institutions to ease strains among money market mutual funds as redemption demands increase.

The coronavirus almost certainly has already triggered a recession. How bad will it be? And how long will it last?

Fed revives crisis-era funding source for short-term business loans as stresses develop amid coronavirus outbreak

Economists say a massive stimulus is needed to rescue the economy from the effects of the coronavirus.

Fed cut rates to near zero, launches bond purchases to pump cash into financial system and encourages bank loans to combat the coronavirus’s impact.