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News & Views | 3/20/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The risk of going too small on stimulus is large and scary, while the risk of going too big is almost nonexistent," said Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute.

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Lawmakers are calling for more F-35s in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Infuriating doesn't even begin to describe it."


Protesters picketing outside a JP Morgan Chase branch on Manhattan in November 2019 as part of a growing national movement to hold the bank accountable for its central role in funding the global fossil fuel industry.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Stop the Money Pipeline, a coalition that aims to end Wall Street's funding of climate destruction, is calling on Congress to hold the line against the financial industry—and give it no special deregulatory treatment—as the federal government responds to the economic fallout from the coronavirus.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As the U.S. faces a public health emergency with more than 16,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus officially known as COVID-19 on Friday, the Trump administration quietly moved to further threaten dozens of endangered species in the southeastern United States.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senate Republicans are using the COVID-19 pandemic to cut corporate taxes again and stop you from getting paid sick leave."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
An annual report on happiness levels in countries around the world points to a major factor which for the eighth year in a row has made Nordic countries among the happiest in the world.


Iranians wait to get prescription drugs at the state-run "13 Aban" pharmacy in Tehran on Feb. 19, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
More than two dozen U.S. organizations came together Friday to pressure the Trump administration to recognize the coronavirus pandemic as a "shared threat" and temporarily ease economic sanctions on Iran, one of the countries hardest hit by the disease with nearly 20,000 COVID-19 cases and over 1,400 deaths.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This action reveals in stark terms just how determined the administration is to roll back the rights and benefits of federal employees."


An intensive care nurse treat a patient at intensive care unit at the Klinikum Bad Hersfeld hospital on March 20, 2020 in Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the number of global COVID-19 cases soared past 254,000 and the death toll topped 10,000 on Friday, concerns persisted—particularly in the United States—about healthcare costs related to the ongoing outbreak, limited testing and protective medical supplies, and how corporations may try to cash in on the public health crisis.


Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden is seen on stage as he and Senator Bernie Sanders take part in the 11th Democratic Party 2020 presidential debate in a CNN Washington Bureau studio in Washington, DC on March 15, 2020. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Trump is in front of the cameras every day, reassuring people, putting on the appearance of 'leadership,'" said one Democratic critic. "Where is Biden? Why isn't he dominating the airwaves?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They didn't mobilize to help families, or prep response. They dumped stock."

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What EPA is saying here is that it wants political control over what research is used in any of the agency’s work. Don’t let them get away with this without a fight. (Photo: EPA)

by Michael Halpern
At a time when seeking out and utilizing cutting-edge research is a life or death situation, the EPA is moving in the opposite direction.


"We live in a world where irony has overtaken reality," writes Momen. "Now that we are facing a serious emergency with the coronavirus outbreak, the wall seems ridiculous as a defense against any perceived or real threats." (Photo: Tricia Cortez)

by Mehnaaz Momen
The septuagenarians in the famous novel are afflicted with love, an intense passion as tumultuous as an epidemic. Do we happen to have any septuagenarian leader who can change the language of hate to compassion?


Each of us is only as healthy as the least-healthy among us. (Photo: jerry dohnal/flickr/cc)

by Robert Reich
Trickle-down economics and trickle-down public health are deeply flawed.


Trump criminalizes and blames immigrants for this crisis, the government seeks to get away with excluding undocumented immigrants from any sort of governmental relief, while allowing employers to continue to super-exploit them. (Photo: Josephine Lee)

by Josephine Lee
Criminalizing immigrant workers and dividing working people will NOT bring about public health security. But ensuring equal rights to universal healthcare and economic relief will.


With an impending shortage of tens of thousands of life-saving ventilators, testing kits, protective equipment for health care workers, and other critical medical supplies, putting the Defense Production Act into effect would enable the Federal government to order American companies to convert to mass producing and distributing this equipment on an emergency basis. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

by Miles Mogulescu
The time for a World War II-like mobilization to defeat this enemy we all share is this very minute.


It wasn’t supposed to be this way. There was supposed to have been greater uniformity in response. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by John Feffer
Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment—"get it yourselves"—is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.

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