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Rich mostly fine but poorest 'completely crushed' after COVID-19 triggered 'most unequal' recession in modern US history
Oct 08, 2020 07:13A new analysis by the Washington Post found that the coronavirus recession has eliminated low-wage jobs at around eight times the rate of high-wage jobs. The analysis comes as the nation's economic metrics continue to show that there is no end in sight to the coronavirus recession, which has permanently wiped out millions of jobs and pushed countless Americans to or over the brink of financial ruin.
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US workers face long-term unemployment amid pandemic
Oct 08, 2020 07:09More than six months after the pandemic ravaged the US labor market, millions of Americans who are still unemployed are bracing for the possibility that the jobs they held before the crisis may not come back for years, if at all.
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As COVID-positive US politicians enjoy healthcare, they 'would deny others’
Oct 07, 2020 16:44Under the for-profit US healthcare system in which insurance companies decide whether a patient's treatments and hospital stays are medically necessary and should be covered or if the person should have to pay out of pocket, the vast majority of Americans are in no position to simply decide to go to the hospital—or often, even to a doctor's office—as a precautionary measure.
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As McConnell dismisses new COVID relief bill as 'political stunt,' survey shows 60% of US families struggling to get by
Oct 07, 2020 06:41Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated once again that he has no intention of providing badly-needed aid to struggling families across the U.S. even as new research found that nearly two-thirds of households with children are having trouble making ends meet.
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Under pressure, Amazon reveals over 20,000 employees likely contracted COVID
Oct 07, 2020 06:37Amazon employees have condemned the company for keeping them in the dark about co-worker infections and their lack of response to the pandemic, which included crowding hundreds of people into recreation rooms, thereby exposing them to increased risk.
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Rich countries are total vaccine hogs; COVID-19 must change that
Oct 07, 2020 06:18Multiple COVID-19 vaccines are working their way through trials, but we haven’t yet figured out what to do when they get here. Distribution faces technical challenges — shortages of glass vials and syringes are already being reported — but there are also ethical supply quandaries. How do we decide who gets a shot first?
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Latest COVID antibodies study shows herd immunity strategy is “highly unethical”
Oct 06, 2020 18:33Less than one in ten Americans have coronavirus antibodies, according to the largest study yet of its sort which confirmed that the United States is nowhere close to “herd immunity” despite a strategy pushed by President Donald Trump’s newest medical adviser.
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COVID-19, climate crisis are part of same battle
Oct 05, 2020 12:09From early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, a common refrain has been, “At least maybe now we will get serious about addressing climate change.” One can certainly see the logic behind this thinking. The terrible toll the pandemic has taken should remind us of the importance of three things that are also necessary to tackle global warming: Science, public policy, and international cooperation.
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After mixed messages from White House, Trump says 'real test' ahead in his COVID fight
Oct 05, 2020 12:05US President Donald Trump said from his hospital room on Saturday Oct. 03 that he felt “much better” but the next few days will be “the real test” of his treatment for COVID-19, capping a day of contradictory messages from the White House about his condition.
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Report: 56 million Americans depended on food banks during the pandemic
Oct 02, 2020 06:09A new report from the Pew Research Center found that 17 percent of the 13,200 American people they surveyed said they had received food from a food bank or similar organization during the pandemic. Nationwide, that figure would amount to 56 million Americans.