Governments Offered Hazard Pay to Frontline Workers. Can They Keep It Up?

Route Fifty: Frontline government employees, including police officers, sanitation workers, and bus drivers, had no option to work at home during the coronavirus pandemic—leading some city and state governments to offer hazard pay as compensation.

But as the pandemic drags on, so has its financial toll. And even as frontline workers continue to face the same dangerous conditions while the virus surges across the country, it is unclear whether local governments will have the money to sustain the extra pay.

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