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Friday, April 17, 2020

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.

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?

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.

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, hospital workers, roommates, and families 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, and child care is right at the top. Other humble suggestions include making internet access a right and a massive labor movement.

A room somewhere. Landlords are pressuring tenants for sex when they can’t pay rent, and still trying to evict people despite the ban. People who are homeless are struggling to figure out how to shelter in place, while the very rich have opted to — in one celebrity’s words — “detain” their staff rather than do their own chores.

A Gloomy Prediction

If unemployment continues to rise, poverty will come for millions more of us — potentially at higher levels than this country has seen in fifty years.

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