‘Never Seen Anything Like It’: Economists Warn 6.6 Million New Jobless Claims Portend Unparalleled Crisis

“A portrait of disaster. Unemployment insurance claims for the last two weeks are mind-blowing.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed jobless claims last week, a staggering and record-breaking surge in unemployment that comes as the coronavirus outbreak has completely shuttered large swaths of the [...]

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‘When We Are Infected No One Is Safe’: Nurses Nationwide Protest Over Lack of Coronavirus Protective Equipment

“For the wealthiest hospital corporation in the United States to show such disregard for the health and safety of its caregivers, is disgraceful and unconscionable.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Nurses at 15 hospitals across the country are set to stage protests both Wednesday and Thursday over what they say is a dangerous lack of [...]

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EPA Using Coronavirus To Roll Back Environmental Protections

“They’re taking political advantage of a crisis when they know it’s more difficult to respond.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is exploiting the Coronavirus crisis to issue sweeping environmental rollbacks, including the termination of Obama-era clean car rules and an indefinite suspension of regulatory enforcement, according to experts like Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center [..]

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While the Public Experiences a Health Calamity, the Homeschooling Movement Sees a Big Opportunity

Advocates for homeschooling and other forms of public school privatization want you to believe the pandemic has a silver lining—they’re wrong. In the early days of the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., when the number of known cases was barely cresting 1,000, advocates for homeschooling were greeting news of the outbreak as an [...]

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Some Pastors Defy Orders to Close Churches, Continue to Hold Services Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

‘We Will Continue’ It has become near universal wisdom by this point in the COVID-19 pandemic that social distancing limits the spread of the disease. Some pastors, however, have continued to hold service, even drawing crowds of over 1,000 people for worship services. In Central, La., Pastor Tony Spell was issued a misdemeanor court summons [..]

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As Coronavirus Spreads, Poll Shows Nearly 60% in US Believe Political System Designed Solely to Serve Rich and Powerful

The survey was taken as Congress debated a $4.5 trillion corporate bailout amid the coronavirus pandemic. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) New polling out Wednesday backdropped by the continuing coronavirus outbreak shows that most of the country believes the U.S. political system works only for the wealthy and elite rather than for working people. In a [...]

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Women in the U.S. May Have To Register for the Draft Soon

Women in the U.S. May Soon Be Eligible for the Draft On March 24 a Congressional commission on military service issued a series of recommendations regarding the future of America’s Military, including a recommendation that women be required to register for selective service. Women in the U.S. Military Unlike women, men have been legally mandated [...]

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With Bills Due April 1, More Than 400,000 Demand Congress Freeze All Rent, Mortgage, and Utility Payments

“Millions are wondering how they’ll pay their rent or mortgage by tomorrow. We need additional emergency action suspending rent, mortgage and utility payments for the duration of this crisis.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) More than 400,000 people have signed a petition calling on Congress to freeze all rent, mortgage, and utility payments nationwide in order [...]

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Congress and Trump Ready for Next ‘Big & Bold’ Stimulus

The US Congress just passed a historic $2.2 trillion stimulus last week, but it is already looking ahead to the next stage of economic relief. When lawmakers negotiated the previous relief package, they said further measures may come down the pipe before the COVID-19 pandemic recedes. US President Donald Trump and Democrats in the House [...]

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Corona Culture: Europe and the New Normal 

Europe is being called the epicenter of the disease and particularly Western Europe where the responses have varied from the new Socialist-Podemos coalition in Spain nationalizing the country’s industry to a total quarantine in France by the neoliberal Macron, criticized for being three weeks too late.  Life is shifting online and as it does the [...]

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