‘Essential’ Label Stirs Business Frenzy to Make Trump’s List (1)

摘要

Pet stores are considered essential. So are landscapers. Hair salons aren’t. Neither are shops that sell books orclothes.The Trump administration’s labeling of industries considered “essential” is quickly creating winners and losers ascoronavirus shuts down swaths of the economy. It’s also setting o a lobbying frenzy among industries -- frombattery makers to poultry producers -- angling to join the ranks of hospitals, supermarkets and other businesseswhose continued operation has been deemed necessary.