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Coronavirus accelerates e-commerce sales in entertainment categories like books, games, toys and fitness equipment, new research suggests.

For many of the nearly 2 million people expected to earn U.S. bachelor’s degrees in 2020, the pandemic has taken away their housing, friends and long-held dreams of a graduation ceremony.

Since the outbreak, UPS has been working with companies around the globe to transport critically needed testing kits, personal protection equipment and medical devices.

The two workers lost their jobs last week after helping to create an online meeting invitation for a discussion about warehouse conditions, the group said.

Mayor Eric Garcetti made the announcement Sunday in his emotional State of the City address.

The retailer's reputation for employee care helped it garner a fleet of more than 240,000 employees worldwide.

Indefinite furloughs began this weekend for more than 100,000 Disney, Best Buy and CarMax workers as businesses make cuts to survive the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent mandatory closures.

The coronavirus pandemic forced it to temporarily shut all 43 of its Neiman Marcus locations and furlough many of its roughly 14,000 employees.

Mandatory lockdowns to stop the spread of the new virus, which has so far infected more than 2.2 million people and for which there is no vaccine, have brought widespread hardship.