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Texas, for instance, sent out more than 1 million overpayment notices since the pandemic began.

The availability of affordable child care is limiting mothers' options for returning to full-time work after the pandemic.

China’s borders shut in March 2020 to contain COVID-19. It's been rough for people who made a life in China but were forced to leave.

"We are scrambling as a school, as a district" to catch up kids and address mental health needs, Jessica Gomez of Southern California says.

But the share of the population in the job market is still about a percentage point below the level of February 2020.

More than two years after the program kicked off, Marketplace checked in with a few PPP recipients to see how business has been going.

Office occupancy remains low in cities like New York and San Francisco, while places like Columbus, Ohio, are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.

Skyrocketing housing costs are driving out the local labor force, leaving all kinds of businesses in the small town short-staffed.

The unemployment rate is high among young Chinese graduates. What does it take a get a job in such a tough economy?

"The long-term goal has to just be structurally changing this untenable housing system that we have," said Carl Gershenson, the project director at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.