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The main reason it’s so hard to access social programs is that governments intentionally want to pay out as little as possible …

Around the world, prisoners are stuck in overcrowded facilities where the risk of getting COVID-19 is high. …

At a press conference in March, President Trump said that “nobody knew” there’d be a pandemic of this proportion. He’s lying. …

The COVID-19 crisis has put many people’s lives as well as livelihoods at risk. In response, the federal government has done nothing for renters or mortgage holders. …

Inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas rioted on Thursday. They raged through offices, broke windows, and set fires. …

The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, opens with a quote from Fredrick Douglass: “My part has been to tell the story of the slave. The story of the master never wanted for narrators.” …

The deep social inequality in Ecuador is a key reason the country has been vulnerable to this pandemic …

Montana Governor Steve Bullock is allowing construction to begin on the infamous Keystone XL oil pipeline in Montana. …

Why are people of color getting and dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than white people? …

An Introduction to the American & Global Oil Economy Its Ever-Increasing Expansion, and Why a …

The Trump administration is not the first U.S. government to lie about an epidemic. …

Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to restaurants that have closed because of the coronavirus. …

With the Covid-19 crisis, almost ten million people have filed for unemployment in the course of two weeks …

To lower the number of Covid-19 cases, people are encouraged to stay inside their house. But what do you do when you don’t even have a house to stay in? …

Self-isolation thanks to the coronavirus makes everyone much more dependent on the internet. But lots of families lack reliable access …

Residents of the Douglass Homes “affordable” housing community in Baltimore are organizing with supporters to get food during the coronavirus pandemic …

The government has rushed in to the rescue – of banks and corporations …

As Covid-19 spreads, it’s a big question whether and how students will have classes …

Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers. …

On Monday, General Electric (GE) factory workers held demonstrations at two different plants, with the demand that the company use its aviation factories to produce ventilators. …

You would think that to fight the coronavirus, the government would pull together the best minds among relevant researchers and health care providers, decide what needs to get done, get industry to make the necessary supplies …

Instacart, a company that lets you order groceries online and have them delivered from your favorite stores, has seen a boom in business since the coronavirus has forced people to stay home. …

Childhelp, a national anonymous hotline to report child abuse, has reported a 23 percent increase in calls and a 263 percent increase in texts for March 2020 compared to March 2019. …

Amazon workers in New York at the Staten Island warehouse went on strike on Monday the 30th, demanding that Amazon shut down their shipping center to get it cleaned for Covid-19. …

Amazon confirmed to CNBC that it fired Chris Smalls, a warehouse worker who organized a strike at its Staten Island facility on Monday …

California’s roughly 400,000 agricultural workers are deemed essential, but often without proper safety measures or guaranteed benefits …

Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap …

Employees in New York facility say they have to ‘force company’s hand’ to act and accuse company of poor communication …

The Trump administration’s unprecedented indifference, even willful neglect, forced a catastrophic strategic surprise on to the American people …

How the ruling Communist Party manages the coming youths will help shape how hundreds of millions of young people see its authoritarian political bargain for decades to come. …

California has the worst housing crisis in the country—so bad that, when Governor Gavin Newsom took office, in 2019, he used his inaugural address to call for a “Marshall Plan for affordable housing,” …

On March 23rd, the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a report with daunting new information on the coronavirus …

European countries are paying to preserve jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Sadly for American workers, the United States is charting its own path. …

Sixers employees were about to take pay cuts … until Joel Embiid stepped in …

Around 100 workers at one of Northern Ireland’s main poultry manufacturers have walked out over concerns their employer has not taken proper steps to protect them from coronavirus. …

On Monday, President Trump suggested that he’d lift the current shutdown on March 31. This is against the advice of top health officials …

On the evening of March 23, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, did an interview on Fox News and declared …

For the past couple of weeks, nurses at Kaiser Hospital have been caring for patients that came from the Grand Princess cruise ship and tested positive for coronavirus. Although there was time for the hospital to prepare before the ship docked, management implemented a training scheme only after the first confirmed cases of patients with Covid-19 arrived. …

While Fox news was denying coronavirus was a problem, Fox’s owner was acting differently. …

With many people out of work due to coronavirus’ impact on their industry or their health, some Bay Area cities and counties are offering modest relief to renters …

Nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California could be fired immediately for wearing their own face masks, according to unions representing nurses at the facilities …

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced it will provide unlimited credit–and assume the bad debts, not just of banks, but for what it called ‘Main St.’ But by ‘Main St.’ it doesn’t mean consumers or households …

Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. …

Millennials: If you can’t stay at home for others, do it for yourselves. …

David and Denise Morse were sent to the California air force base after 21 people on their Grand Princess cruise were diagnosed with coronavirus …

Employees say they are anxious about working in crowded stores with inadequate sanitation and lack of paid time off …

Truckers and warehouse workers at UPS and FedEx feel they have not choice but to keep showing up, even with coronavirus-like sypmtoms …

The divisions between the rich and poor are infuriatingly clear in 2020 …