Economy

The state will fast-track billions in road projects despite not knowing how the pandemic could impact revenues.

Biweekly webinars on Zoom will help city small businesses and MWBEs stay afloat in difficult economic times.

South Carolina lawmakers set aside money for the state’s pandemic response but it’s also on hold along with the fiscal 2021 budget.

Moody's Investors Service revised the Pennsylvania regional health system to negative citing revenue risks from COVID-19.

The housing market may turn out to be a big factor in how fast the U.S. economy recovers.

Leading Democrats support Mitch McConnell's $250 billion for small businesses and want another $250 million for hospitals and state and local governments.

The COVID-19 crisis has stretched many hospital groups, notably in Greater Boston, to their limits.

Laura Kelly is promoting the plan as an economic stimulus.

Marshall Medical Center in Placerville was cut to BB-plus.

State Departments of Transportation said $50 billion would provide states the ability to meet existing debt obligations.

More federal rescue moves are necessary for the nation’s largest mass transit system, according to the advocacy group Reinvent Albany.

Lee Igel, a professor at New York University's Tisch Institute for Global Sport, examines the ripple-effect economic impact, tangible and psychological, of sports cancellations due to the coronavirus. Paul Burton hosts.

Only a skeleton service will remain for essential workers who need to leave home to do their jobs.

The central bank is creating a facility to provide financing to banks participating in the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.

BDA wants the he Fed to consider a standby, short-term lending facility for states and localities experiencing cash flow timing shortfalls.

Coronavirus-driven job losses are way beyond predicted, and expected to get worse, but most still see a V-shaped recovery.

Urban areas will get $22.7 billion in formula funds and $2.2 billion will go to rural areas.

Incoming data continued to show massive hits from the efforts to stem the spread of COVID-19, with jobless claims doubling and the New York manufacturing sector hitting all-time lows in activity.

Fitch Ratings placed Alaska's AA-minus issuer default rating on Rating Watch Negative.

Wednesday’s economic data were not as bad as projected, but included just the beginning of the effects of the coronavirus on the economy.