A union contract for thousands of Illinois nursing home workers is about to expire. Talks to replace that contract have been taking place as COVID-19 deaths tied to nursing homes have been surging.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Chip Mitchell
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Home visiting programs can help pregnant women and new moms support their babies, but COVID-19 has forced doulas to shift their approach.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Susie An
Nintendo has confirmed that they suffered a breach where Nintendo accounts were compromised. This episode talks about the breach and why and how it's so important to enable multi-factor authentication on all your accounts.
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Having trouble sleeping? You may not be alone. Here’s how to get a good night’s sleep, even during a pandemic
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Araceli Gómez-Aldana
Everything you need to know about the pandemic over the weekend.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Dan Mihalopoulos
Some parents and leaders at Chicago charter schools are scraping together money to buy devices and starting GoFundMe campaigns.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad
With in person classes canceled, teachers are getting creative in finding ways to teach a range of subjects online, including gym, dance and even architecture.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Adriana Cardona Maguigad, Susie An
This week's tools, tips and tricks episode talks about using Agile methods to help create more efficiency at home. From your kid's school work to normal every day home chores you can create your own HomeOps program.
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Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker is ordering residents to continue to stay-at-home through May 30th. Though he is adding a few restrictions while loosening some others starting May 1st.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Tony Arnold
Internet of Things Strikes Again! This episode talks about the IoT listening devices you may have in your home and tips to help keep your private and business work secure. The devices are listening and recording and you need to be aware of how to manage that.
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Divorce and co-parenting is stressful in any environment but what does it look like during a pandemic?
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Carrie Shepherd
Chicago aldermen continue to push back on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s request for emergency spending powers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Becky Vevea
The economic impact payments, or "Stimulus Checks" are going out and are prime targets for scammers. This episode lays out what red flags you need to look for to avoid these criminals trying to steal your money and identity.
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Remote employees are prime targets for hackers and they are taking advantage of it. This episode talks about the increase of hacking attacks and what can be done to curtain these increased threats.
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Nurse Margaret Hefferon switched from her job in orthopedic surgery to work in an intensive care unit at Northwestern Hospital. The ICU treats the most severe COVID-19 cases.
Host: Mary Dixon
Producer: Mariah Woelfel
The pandemic has been a challenge for local farmers who have long sold to Chicago businesses and markets. A look at the forecast for those who used to bank on selling their goods to restaurants that are now closed.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Monica Eng
Northwest Indiana officials are worried about their governor’s call to reopen the state in early May before adequate testing has happened. The plan now is to lift the state’s stay at home order after May 1st.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Michael Puente
Price V. Fishback on Werner Troesken’s “The Pox of Liberty” and Our Current Tradeoffs between Quarantines and Economic Freedom
Economist and Press author Price V. Fishback shared with us recently his thoughts on a previous Press book that speaks to our current situation and looks at the political and economic history of how the US government has responded to other pandemics. The current crisis has brought into focus the tradeoffs between quarantines and economic freedom. For an excellent book about the history of these tradeoffs in the United States, read Werner Troesken’s The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Werner traces the history of how governments at all levels of the American federal system dealt with three deadly and recurring diseases: smallpox, yellow fever, and typhoid. All of the issues the world is facing today to avoid horrid deaths are discussed in Werner’s book: inadequate testing, the absence of vaccines, attempts to develop vaccines, tradeoffs between economic losses and quarantines, the uncertainties that the disease might return in the future, and inadequate medical facilities. The situations developed in the nineteenth-century societies when there were much higher death rates, lower incomes, and at best rudimentary medical care. In his preface, Werner says that he started out trying to […]
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