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Last month, Susan Houghtelling, a hospital supply-chain manager in upstate New York, was facing a shortfall of medical supplies when her inbox suddenly flooded with offers. 

3M selling masks to foreign countries

Many airlines spent billions of dollars on their own stocks over the past decade, and are now receiving almost $60 billion of aid from the US government. The airlines say the help is necessary to keep paying their employees, but in some cases, the total buyback amounts over the years could have covered employee salaries during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

With unemployment spiking, consumer advocates want a temporary moratorium on insurers' ability to use falling credit scores to set premiums.

Even before the coronavirus pandemic took hold, retailers across the United States were in the midst of hard times. Here is how a few of your favorite stores have been affected by the 2020 retail apocalypse.

Some people counting on $1,200 stimulus checks from the government may not see the money until mid-September, according to a House Ways and Means Committee analysis.

38-year-old Raquel Lezama is among more than 1.6 million Californians who are out of work as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. On March 13, the hotel laid her off, along with some 20 other housekeepers. The hotel canceled workers' health insurance and sent them home with no severance. California's lodging industry is one of the hardest hit as the economy shuts down; it is expected to shed some 125,000 jobs.

Explore the above to find out how the U.S. economy was faring the year you were born and why.

Mortgage lenders are preparing for the biggest wave of delinquencies in history. If the plan to buy time works, they may avert an even worse crisis: Mass foreclosures and mortgage market mayhem.