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Rebecca Baines is the vice president and editorial director at National Geographic Kids Books. Becky has spent her career at National Geographic Kids and specializes in acquisition, idea generation, and new book development of educational nonfiction content with a humorous edge. Her latest venture is launching a fiction program that aligns character-driven narratives with the National Geographic Kids brand, marrying science, history, and geography with action-packed middle grade stories under the company’s new imprint, Under the Stars. When she’s not leading the editorial team, Baines co-hosts the “Weird But True Show” on Sirius XM radio’s Kids Place Live. She also has a secret passion spooky, gross, and weird subject matter. Baines graduated with a B.S. in journalism from James Madison University, and looks forward to figuring out what she wants to be when she grows up

Karen Liz Albert, a Social Media consultant, speaker, author and seminar leader, is the owner/founder of Behind Your Curtain. Karen has 20+ years experience in marketing, consulting and professional training and has successfully used her Social Media expertise to launch targeted Social Media marketing campaigns for business owners and entrepreneurs, helping them achieve tangible marketing results by strategically promoting brand awareness and increasing customers.

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Kathy Barnette, author of Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America. Kathy is also currently running for U.S. Congress in the 4th District of Pennsylvania.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has a stark message for Republican lawmakers -- if the federal government doesn't give financial aid to California, they'll only be punishing first responders.

"I hope they'll consider this, the next time they want to salute and celebrate our heroes and first responders, our police officers and firefighters, consider the fact that they are the first ones that will be laid off by cities and counties," Newsom told CNN's Jake Tapper during a Sunday morning interview when asked what will happen if California doesn't get federal aid.

author of False Confessions and a partner in Unit 2 Creations.

while COVID-19 is first and foremost a human health crisis, it has become one of the biggest economic crises our country has seen.

Note: The forecast doesn’t try to anticipate when the unemployment rates will reach these levels and does not attempt to forecast economic stimulus measures aside from those already in place.

Kansas

In KS, roughly 19% percent of the workforce has filed for unemployment in the last two months. MoneyGeek expects the employment situation to worsen in Kansas and in Hutchinson, but we don’t have concrete data specific to Hutchinson -- only the whole state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics only releases hard data on the biggest 5 metro areas in Kansas.

Our forecast for Kansas, indicates that at its peak, unemployment will be 31 percent or about 469,900 workers. The forecast indicates that lost jobs in Kansas will and have predominantly come from Service-Providing jobs: We estimate that around 331k lost jobs will come from this sector and it includes lost jobs in Retail Trade (-70k), Leisure and Hospitality (- 71k), Healthcare (-38k lost jobs). We also estimate that around 102,000 jobs will be lost in trade/transportation/utilities sector.

Why Healthcare Job Losses

There are a number of reasons why we are forecasting job losses in the healthcare industry right now. First and foremost, healthcare is bigger than just hospitals. It’s local doctors offices including dentists, pediatricians, and opthamologists. In addition healthcare includes home health aides who help people in their homes as well. Many of these jobs have been lost or furloughed as offices close. Second, elective procedures have generally halted which is a big portion of revenue for hospitals and outpatient clinics.

Here’s what people can do about it:

File for unemployment, MoneyGeek’s Kansas page provides links to the Kansas Dept of Labor to file unemployment.

Assess the assets you have -- what money might be available to you? If you have savings, how accessible are they to you? Do you have a tax refund coming? The deadline has been extended to July, so if you haven’t already filed, do so.

Look for ways to cut your spending. Take a look at your recurring expenses for opportunities to lower your costs. MoneyGeek has resources that can help you refinance your mortgage or lower your spending on auto insurance.

Look for a job.

Contact your creditors and let them know about your situation. For example, federally backed mortgages (about 75% of all mort

BIO: James Rosebush was a Deputy Assistant to President Reagan, the Chief of Staff to First Lady Nancy Reagan, and a Senior Advisor at the White House. For over twenty years he has been CEO of an international consulting firm, GrowthStrategy, Inc., advising on management strategies, finance, marketing, and communications, throughout the world. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Nancy.

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ABOUT COLONEL (Ret.) MICHAEL LEWIS, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACN

Dr. Lewis graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, and Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed post-graduate training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research - where he developed the ESSENCE program, the nation’s first and largest Syndrome‐based Disease Outbreak Recognition System that is used by the US CDC, health departments across the United States, and many countries around the world. Subsequently, Dr. Lewis was assigned to the AFRIMS Research Laboratory in Bangkok, Thailand, where established the DoD’s Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Program. There he developed and coordinated programs across Asia, led investigations into disease outbreaks, and was at ground zero for SARS and bird flu. Dr. Lewis is board-certified and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Nutrition.