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News & Views | 4/2/20

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Then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered remarks with his children—from left, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump—during the grand opening ceremony of the new Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 26, 2016. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Julia Conley, staff writer
While millions of Americans are facing job loss, the loss of their employer-sponsored health coverage, and difficulty affording necessities over the coming months as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump's real estate empire is seeking relief from paying back loans.

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Rev. Drs. Liz Theoharis and William Barber

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In an op-ed published Thursday by TIME, Poor People's Campaign co-chairs Rev. Drs. William Barber and Liz Theoharis outlined the "evil" elements of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus legislation that President Donald Trump signed last week and demanded a federal COVID-19 relief effort that centers the needs of the nation's most vulnerable.


"Congress must approve at least $1.6 billion in additional funding for safe and fair elections."

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"None of us know how long this pandemic will last, and no American should have to choose between protecting their health and exercising their right to vote."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Trump administration is robbing workers of the paid sick days and paid leave Congress passed into law for them. That is unconscionable."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A portrait of disaster. Unemployment insurance claims for the last two weeks are mind-blowing."


Medicare for All supporters hold signs

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The COVID-19 pandemic lays bare the cruelty of tying health insurance coverage to employment."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They're still requiring SSI recipients and veterans receiving pensions to file a tax return before receiving their coronavirus stimulus payments."


DNC chair Tom Perez stands on stage before the Democratic presidential primary debate at the Charleston Gaillard Center on February 25, 2020.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"The DNC is delaying a convention that was set to take place in Wisconsin in July. But the Democratic governor and Republican legislature there won't move—or cancel the in-person portion of—a primary that's happening there next Tuesday."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
As 6.6 million Americans filed jobless claims last week due to the coronavirus pandemic bringing many industries to a halt, historically long lines at food banks across the country offered another grim illustration of the financial realities faced by working people in the United States.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Voters are watching in real time as Bernie Sanders' platform—Medicare for All, a federal housing guarantee, paid leave for everyone, and much else—is looking more and more like a common-sense solution to huge problems."


germs and code

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed toward a million worldwide on Thursday, over 100 human rights groups issued a joint statement warning that governments' response to the coronavirus pandemic "must not be used as a cover to usher in a new era of greatly expanded systems of invasive digital surveillance."

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Lloyd Blankfein, Former CEO of Goldman Sachs, Net worth: $1.3 billion. (Photo by Michael Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times)

by Rick Claypool
These 24 billionaires, executives, and right-wing pundits are urging a premature rollback of social distancing, risking millions of American lives.


Social distancing also has created other ironies for the working poor and communities disproportionately breathing in the particulates of pollution. (Photo: Derrick Jackson)

by Derrick Z. Jackson
The coronavirus gives us the opportunity to declare in our political and medical decisions that we will not drape the cloak of invisibility over historically neglected victims of disaster.


The chart shows that 9.9 million initial unemployment insurance claims have been made over the last two-week period, creating a graphic described as "difficult to stomach" by economic analysts. (Source: The Block/FRED)

by Heidi Shierholz
Given the incredible deterioration of the labor market in a matter of weeks, federal policymakers will absolutely need to come back and provide more desperately needed relief.


A Georgian soldiers wearing protective masks stop a car at a checkpoint in Tbilisi on April 1, 2020 amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 30,000 lives in Europe alone, a global tally showed April 1, 2020, in what the head of the United Nations has described as humanity's worst crisis since World War II. (Photo by Vano Shlamov/ AFP via Getty Images)

by Robert C. Koehler
What if idealism were the essence of human politics, not its scapegoat?


We need to reform the public assistance program so that more families in need are eligible. (Photo: badsci/flickr/cc)

by Robert Reich
Stronger safety nets are not only good for individuals and families in need. They will also prevent the looming recession from becoming an even deeper and longer economic crisis.


Americans can rightly demand an explanation for the vast gulf between the ideas espoused by free-market advocates and the failure of the market to provide essential social goods, most pressingly right now, healthcare.(Photo: Dave Center/flickr/cc)

by Dorothee Benz
Corporate media shrug as elite declare loss of profits worse than loss of lives.

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