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Coronavirus has created a rift between the US and China that may take a generation to heal
May 12, 2020 14:14The novel coronavirus has destroyed lives and livelihoods in both the United States and China. But instead of bonding the two nations together to fight the pandemic, it has sent their already strained relations on a rapid downward spiral -- and fanned the flames of a potentially dangerous strain of nationalism.
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Kind of like large scale negligent homicide in US: As Trump urges re-openings, CDC report warns of surge in Covid-19 deaths
May 12, 2020 14:08Internal the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) document projects U.S. coronavirus deaths could reach 3,000 per day by June 1—nearly double the current daily death toll.
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Trump's Wuhan Lab Conspiracy Theory a baseless disinformation campaign
May 12, 2020 03:41There is more and more evidence from around the world that the coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, as it's known scientifically, that causes COVID-19, was probably circulating worldwide much earlier than when it was first identified in Wuhan. There's evidence now that it was circulating in France in December and of course, it could be much earlier than that.
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Black Americans bearing the brunt of COVID-19 recession
May 12, 2020 03:37Prior to this coronavirus pandemic, the worst economic downturns in post-World War II America were the 1981-82 recession and the Great Recession that followed the 2007-2008 financial crisis. According to calculations, during those downturns, the jobless rate of black Americans peaked at 20.2 percent and 14.8 percent respectively.
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Gun violence increases in the US amid COVID-19 shutdown
May 11, 2020 14:42Death and injury resulting from violence and accidents involving firearms has increased in US cities due in part to people spending more time at home in proximity to weapons and in situations of magnified stress.
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US mass unemployment amid the pandemic is an indictment of capitalism
May 11, 2020 14:30Unemployment always stood as a mocking indictment of capitalism. Unemployment also threatens capitalism. This system rewards employers with profits from the waged labor of employees. Yet it fails to keep them working and thereby undermines its profits. Worse, that failure recurs quite regularly — a phenomenon known as the business cycle.
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Ecotourism collapse threatens communities and wildlife
May 10, 2020 05:57Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, scientists have repeatedly urged humanity to reset its relationship with nature or suffer worse outbreaks. But the economic consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown have raised fears of a surge in poaching, illegal fishing and deforestation in life-sustaining ecosystems, with tens of thousands of jobs in the ecotourism sector at risk around the world.
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Trump administration pushing to rip global supply chains from China
May 10, 2020 05:54The US Commerce Department, State and other agencies are looking for ways to push companies to move both sourcing and manufacturing out of China. The current and former officials said tax incentives and potential re-shoring subsidies are among measures being considered to spur changes.
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Top American unions accuse Trump of exploiting loopholes in Covid-19 stimulus to 'enrich corporate executives'
May 09, 2020 14:31Leaders of some of the largest labor unions in the United States are warning that the Trump administration is brushing aside the interests of workers in its distribution of trillions of dollars in coronavirus bailout funds and instead using the taxpayer money to further enrich wealthy corporate executives.
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Eight important lessons from East Asian nations on controlling coronavirus
May 09, 2020 14:22The lockdowns, if introduced early and quickly, can slow the spread of the coronavirus, but are not a solution by themselves. They are a costly and crude policy instrument that should be used as sparingly as possible. They allow governments to buy time and use this time to massively increase important public health infrastructure.