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Global billionaire wealth surged to record $10.2 trillion amid COVID-19 catastrophe
Oct 13, 2020 17:06While COVID-19 has taken the lives of over one million people across the globe and exacerbated economic precarity for millions more, the combined wealth held by the world's 2,189 billionaires has skyrocketed—increasing by 27.5% between April and July 2020 and reaching a record high of $10.2 trillion.
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American college students face higher rates of food insecurity than average US household
Oct 13, 2020 17:02Historically, estimates of food insecurity among US college students have ranged from 10% to 75%, according to 50 studies from U.S. academic institutions carried out from 2009 to before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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World Bank: Up to 150 million more people will live in extreme poverty by 2021
Oct 13, 2020 16:31The convergence of the coronavirus, combined with global conflict and climate change has put the goal of ending global poverty by 2030 virtually out of sight.
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Trump has made hundreds of millions from foreign business interests since 2016
Oct 12, 2020 12:54US President Donald Trump is making hundreds of millions from foreign business dealings during his time in the White House, an OpenSecrets analysis of personal financial disclosures found.
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One-third of Americans can’t pay their bills as stimulus talks stall
Oct 12, 2020 12:52Millions of people across the United States are struggling to pay rent and bills as talks over pandemic relief stall on Capitol Hill and stimulus checks fail to reach society’s most vulnerable.
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House probe into Trump's failed Covid-19 response shows "unprecedented, coordinated" political interference
Oct 11, 2020 17:07The US Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis has recently released a new staff analysis examining instances of political interference in the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The analysis shows that the administration officials have repeatedly injected partisan politics into public health decisions over the course of the pandemic.
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Biden says Trump bears responsibility for coronavirus diagnosis after downplaying guidelines
Oct 11, 2020 07:00US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden asserted on Monday Oct. 05 that President Donald Trump bears some responsibility for testing positive for the novel coronavirus recently because of his lax approach to pandemic-related safety guidelines.
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Researchers say Trump is the “largest single component” of COVID misinformation
Oct 10, 2020 06:35US President Donald Trump is the 'single largest driver' of misinformation over the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study
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Critics say what's clear is Trump 'knowingly exposed people' to Covid-19
Oct 10, 2020 05:25American journalists and public health experts raised questions over the mixed messages coming out of the White House and President Donald Trump's medical team after Dr. Sean Conley, the president's physician, told reporters Trump was "72 hours into the diagnosis" of Covid-19.
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Less than 10 percent of US adult population developed COVID-19 antibodies by July
Oct 10, 2020 05:13A large study of people receiving dialysis in the US reveals that less than 10 percent of the adult population had formed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 by July 2020.