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Friday, April 17, 2020
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Few Jails Provide Addiction Treatment. That Can Make Release Fatal.
by Elizabeth Brico
Releasing people can save lives during the pandemic. But without support, overdose can take them anyway.
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COVID-19 Proves San Francisco’s Housing Crisis Is A Health Emergency
by Ray Levy-Uyeda
Doctors serving homeless people have new resources to house them. What happens when the pandemic’s over?
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A Phase 4 Coronavirus Relief Bill Must Include Protections for Undocumented Immigrants
by Ryan Zamarripa
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Undocumented people are a crucial part of the U.S. Leaving them behind will cost us all.
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Off-Kilter: Structural Racism in the Age of Coronavirus
As the grim data on who’s losing their lives to COVID-19 continue to roll in, Rebecca sits down with Angela Hanks for a deep dive into how structural racism is exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic for black people — especially black women.
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What We’re Reading
The view from here. As words begin to fail us, photographers have stepped in to document this time in our history. Photoessays of restaurant workers <[link removed]>, hospital workers <[link removed]>, roommates <[link removed]>, and families <[link removed]> are helping us feel connected even when we're forced apart.
A Hell of a To-Do List. The pandemic has given us a laundry list of problems that clearly need to be fixed <[link removed]>, and child care <[link removed]> is right at the top. Other humble suggestions include making internet access a right <[link removed]> and a massive labor movement <[link removed]>.
A room somewhere. Landlords are pressuring tenants for sex <[link removed]> when they can’t pay rent, and still trying to evict people <[link removed]> despite the ban. People who are homeless are struggling to figure out how to shelter in place, <[link removed]> while the very rich have opted to — in one celebrity’s words — “detain” their staff <[link removed]> rather than do their own chores.
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A Gloomy Prediction
If unemployment continues to rise, poverty will come for millions more of us <[link removed]> — potentially at higher levels than this country has seen in fifty years.
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