The Pandemic Took Sales To Zero. But This Alexandria Baker Wasn’t About To Let Her Employees Down.

Federal aid programs took care of payroll for several months. The rest, Nyerges and her husband covered by using retirement savings. No one has lost their job because of the pandemic at her bakery – she’s proud of that, and of the seven people who became citizens while working at Maribeth’s, some of them sponsored by the company. “That someone working next to me is now able to take care of themselves and their family and realize their own dreams.

Those closed businesses and their employees are people whose “lives and dreams have been destroyed,” she said. She has been troubled for a while about the transformation in the food business, everywhere from restaurants to groceries, that has been accelerated by the pandemic. The “black and brown” people that make the food business go are increasingly seen as expendable, she thinks. And small businesses on thinner margins are being eaten alive by expensive “essential” services from DoorDash to Facebook.

by Charles Dickens. The pandemic accelerated the trends building around us. Like the ghosts, it has helped us see the past, and the present day and given us a glimpse into the future. “Tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!” Ebenezer begs the Ghost of Christmas Future–and finds that when he wakes, he can. Given the pandemic glimpse into what lies ahead, I hope we’ll sponge away some of the inequality and insecurity we've seen…and write a better story for the world.

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