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Your Week in Review


President Donald Trump hands out pens to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (L) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (C) after signing the CARES act, a $2 trillion rescue package to provide economic relief amid the coronavirus outbreak, at the Oval Office of the White House on March 27, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is a frightening amount of public money to have given a corrupt administration with zero accountability."


The number of unemployed Americans could be in the tens of millions by April, economists warn.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We are about to experience something we cannot really imagine."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"It is insane and unacceptable," said Bernie Sanders. "We will not tolerate profiteering. Any treatment or vaccine must be made free for all."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This crisis is really laying bare the extent to which we are ruled by completely craven psychopaths."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We will not die for oligarchs' quarterly profit margin."


"We Demand a People's Bailout."

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Seven congressional Democrats have joined over 500 progressive groups in demanding that federal lawmakers respond to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic with a "People's Bailout" that prioritizes public health and economic relief for workers over corporations while taking steps to prevent future crises.


US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at the White House on March 22, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Throughout this crisis Trump and Republicans in Congress have made it clear that they believe in generous socialism for banks, airlines, and the cruise industry, but think the American people should mostly fend for themselves."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It may make a lot of people rich, but it doesn't have the resources in it today to take care of the most vulnerable in this country."


An inmate is escorted to a rehabilitation exercise at a Bay Area hospital Feb. 23, 2011.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Rights advocates and Democrats holding state and federal elected offices across the United States are doubling down on demands for the release of "at-risk" inmates and more prevenative measures in jails and prisons to prevent mass outbreaks of the new coronavirus, which has killed at least 473 people and infected over 35,000 nationwide as of Monday morning.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The climate action group Food & Water Action demanded Monday that the government take the economic and public health crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to take ownership of the struggling, environmentally destructive industry.

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