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Closing every school in America because of the coronavirus would cost the US economy $51 billion a month
Mark Abadi Sara Silverstein Jacqui Frank|Mar 19, 2020
• Schools across the country are shutting down to stem the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. • But if every school in the US closed for a month, it would cost the economy $51 billion, according to new analysis. • That's because countless parents would have to miss work to care for their children, reducing the labor force, according to an NYU epidemiology professor. • View more episodes of Business Insider Today on Facebook. The majority of US states have ordered the closure of public schools...