While federal and state officials around the country focus on the rapidly-changing statistics to grasp the health and safety impact of COVID-19, measuring the pandemic’s sweeping economic effect is beginning to come into focus.
Millions of people are losing work as businesses shudder or have no choice but to cease operations due to shelter-in-place orders to combat the potentially-deadly virus’ spread. In the roofing and the construction trades, inconsistencies over "essential business" designations are on the mind of many business owners and employees alike.