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Friday, April 3, 2020
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Everything You Need to Know About Today’s Instacart Strike
by Lia Russell
Instacart Shoppers became frontline workers under COVID-19. Now they’re fighting for the right to stay safe. <[link removed]>
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Dreamers Help Keep the Country Running During the Pandemic
by Stephanie Griffith and Claudia Flores
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: In anticipation of a fateful Supreme Court decision, DACA recipients grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. <[link removed]>
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Social Distancing To Fight the Coronavirus Saves Lives and Preserves the U.S. Economy
By Marc Jarsulic, Michael Madowitz, and Christian E. Weller
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: There is a strong economic case for maintaining our commitment to social distancing. <[link removed]>
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Off-Kilter: Local Leaders Respond to COVID-19
Rebecca talks with Helen Gym, Philadelphia City Councilmember-at-large, about how local leaders have been stepping up and leading the way amid a slow and inadequate federal response. <[link removed]>
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What We’re Reading
Time Will Tell. Take a trip back in epidemiological history, to 1976 and a vexing illness <[link removed]> that tested modern public health. Further back, the histories of other pandemics <[link removed]> offer glimpses into possible futures, and raise the question of what a post-COVID-19 world might look like <[link removed]>.
This Isn't Working. Millions of people are unemployed <[link removed]> and don't know where to go from here; job searches are hard when your entire industry is shut down. The labor crisis created by coronavirus is so extreme that a general strike doesn't seem out of the question <[link removed]>. Meanwhile, rent was due on Wednesday and some renters had no way or plan to pay it <[link removed]>.
The End. “Anything good I could say about this would be a lie,” explains 62-year-old Tony Sizemore. His wife, Birdie Shelton, died of COVID-19 <[link removed]> and it left him unmoored. The New York Times' Those We've Lost <[link removed]> is collecting stories about the deceased as is Buzzfeed's The Victims of COVID-19 <[link removed]>, and yes, that strange, prickling, uneasy sensation you're feeling is grief <[link removed]>.
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Blank Space
New York is usually a bustling, chaotic place filled with people and events. It has turned into an eerie abandoned city <[link removed]> interrupted by markers of the beforetime, evidence that children once played, restaurants were once open, and Broadway once sparkled with lights.
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