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News & Views | 3/25/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senate Republicans are just so inhumane they can't imagine policymakers intentionally providing working people with enough money to temporarily live on in the event they're laid off."

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives at the Capitol for a vote on a coronavirus bill amendment on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It would be an outrage to prevent working-class Americans to receive the emergency unemployment assistance included in this legislation."


Medical workers at Kaiser Permanente French Campus test a patient for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at a drive-thru testing facility in San Francisco on March 12, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The United Nations agency's warning to world leaders comes as Trump continues to push for loosened restrictions to contain the novel coronavirus.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's not a bailout for the coronavirus. It's a bailout for twelve years of corporate irresponsibility."


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-N.Y) speaks in Durham, New Hampshire on February 10.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We HAVE to be able to respond to people's needs. People don't have this time."


A sign is seen in front of the closed Department of Labor on March 25, 2020 in New York.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Deal reached in the Senate, says Chuck Schumer, contains "unemployment insurance on steroids" to help with the crisis.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump and Pence are talking to private equity titans and hedge fund moguls instead of figuring out how to help healthcare workers get masks or workers to get wages or borrowers get debt relief."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We must put human life above corporate profit. We cannot give pharmaceutical corporations a monopoly on treatments that could save millions of people during this crisis."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Scientists including the top United Nations expert on the environment on Wednesday urged authorities to seriously consider a long-term strategy for preventing another infectious disease pandemic—calling the coronavirus a "clear warning shot" from nature.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
A provision in the massive bill prohibits "businesses controlled by the president, vice president, members of Congress, and heads of executive departments from receiving loans or investments from Treasury programs."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A federal judge handed down a major victory for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota on Wednesday, ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act by approving federal permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Avoiding the doctor for fear of the cost is bad in the best of times, disastrous in a crisis like COVID-19, and unheard of in places with single-payer care. (Photo: Shutterstock)

by Ashar Foley
Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.



by Alex Lawson
These treatments should be available to everyone who needs them at no cost.


We not only need a new healthcare system, but a new economic system that values life over profit. (Photo: Eniola Odetunde/Axios. Photo: Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

by Mike Pappas
NYC physician gave this speech about the war against the coronavirus and the ongoing war against for-profit health care, Trump and capitalism itself. The coronavirus pandemic is magnifying capitalism’s complete inability to foster overall health and well being. We don’t just need a new healthcare...


Claudia Lefko and Faiza Al-Araji, Amman Jordan 2012. (Photo: Courtesy of author)

by Claudia Lefko
Iraqi families were divided and separated around the world.


We are gaining an enhanced awareness of what it means to be a global citizen while also living a little closer to home. (Photo: iStock/sv_sunny)

by Debi Smith
This crisis has illustrated, so clearly and painfully, some of the many weak spots in the fabric of our society that Bernie Sanders has spent a lifetime and two presidential candidacies passionately trying to focus our attention on.


If there ARE future generations, when your children’s children look back and ask, when the planet was threatened, what did you do? What will you say? It’s about us, ALL of US! #NotMeUs (Photo: UM Women/cc/flickr)

by Robert Dodge
Pandemics, climate change, nuclear war, existential threats: the new abnormal; our sentinel moment.

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