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American children will bear the brunt of a looming eviction crisis
Aug 20, 2020 06:00A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30 unless policymakers enact aggressive relief measures.
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US racist neoliberal response to Hurricane Katrina foreshadowed response to COVID
Aug 19, 2020 10:01In a post-9/11 world, the neoliberal project has accelerated the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of a small few through measures that include military interventions in the West Asia region, structural adjustment programs imposed upon the countries of the Global South, and austerity measures that have reduced worker and environmental protections as well as defunded public education, health care, and other vital social programs.
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First into the virus slump, China is proving the fastest out
Aug 18, 2020 04:30Tommy Wu, senior economist at Oxford Economics Ltd in Hong Kong said “China’s coronavirus recovery is largely on track,” adding, “Investment plays a bigger role, where as in the rest of the world fiscal policy support is mainly on the employment and the smaller enterprise front.
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Why do we develop lifelong immunity to some diseases, but not others?
Aug 16, 2020 05:31Some diseases, like the measles, infect us once and usually grant us immunity for life. For others, like the flu, we have to get vaccinated year after year. So why do we develop lifelong immunity to some diseases but not others? And where does the novel coronavirus fit into all this? Whether or not we develop immunity to a disease often depends on our antibodies, which are proteins we produce in response to infection.
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American public health officials are quitting or getting fired in throes of pandemic
Aug 16, 2020 05:21Vilified, threatened with violence or in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health officials around the U.S. have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Millions of American working poor may lose out on benefits due to pandemic
Aug 14, 2020 14:30The coronavirus pandemic is driving American families to the edge, with tens of millions at risk of losing their homes and over 1 in 10 U.S. adults reporting their households didn’t have enough to eat in the previous week.
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Trump shrugs off coronavirus death count in interview, says “It is what it is”
Aug 14, 2020 14:26Trump’s actions in the past — or rather, his inaction in dealing with coronavirus early on — may have resulted in more deaths occurring in the US than were necessary.
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US response to coronavirus is met with incredulity abroad
Aug 14, 2020 04:16The United States’ failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, as the so-called world’s most powerful country edges closer to a global record of five million confirmed infections.
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'This is terrorism': With no face masks and no warrant, US border patrol agents raid humanitarian aid station in Arizona and detain 30 migrants
Aug 13, 2020 05:45US Border Patrol agents on Friday night, July 31st raided a humanitarian aid station run by immigrant rights advocacy group No More Deaths, detaining 30 people in what activists described as a "massive show of force" aimed at intimidating the group.
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Study: Billionaires that donated to Gates-Buffet giving pledge now richer than ever
Aug 13, 2020 05:39As the assets of the billionaire class in the US swell to $3.5 trillion amid the pandemic, a new study of philanthropic giving reveals that many of America’s wealthiest are using charitable donations to stay rich and get richer.