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Your Week in Review
Cashing In on Pandemic? Documents Show Lawmakers Made 1,500 Stock Transactions Worth $158 Million as Covid-19 Spread
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"As Covid-19 cases began to increase, senators and representatives from
both parties traded securities—many related to the pandemic itself."
"We Need a Working People's Bailout": Unemployment Claims Hit 30 Million as Many Struggle to Afford Necessities
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Calls grew for a bailout for working people on Thursday after the U.S.
Labor Department reported that more than 30 million Americans have filed
for unemployment benefits in the past six weeks as the coronavirus
pandemic has spread across the U.S., forcing millions of businesses to
close.
In 'Terrifying' Indictment of For-Profit System, 12.7 Million Workers Estimated to Have Lost Insurance Due to Coronavirus
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
New research from the Economic Policy Institute reveals that the number
of Americans who are losing their employer-based health insurance is
growing rapidly, as more than 30 million people are laid off or
furloughed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Poll Shows Tens of Millions of Americans Would Avoid Covid-19 Treatment Over Cost Fears
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"A country that puts people in this situation is not a country upholding
its responsibility to its citizens."
'Pathetic': Trump Says No to Additional Covid-19 Stimulus Checks, Backs Cutting Tax That Funds Social Security Instead
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Cutting payroll taxes does nothing to help seniors or the millions of
people who just lost their jobs. It does, however, defund Social
Security and Medicare—which is why Trump is obsessed with the idea."
Top Unions Accuse Trump of Exploiting Loopholes in Covid-19 Stimulus to 'Enrich Corporate Executives'
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The Trump administration has, once again, shown complete disregard for
the well-being of working families and failed to implement any
requirements that would benefit workers."
To Curb 'Oligarchic' Power, Warren and Ocasio-Cortez Call for Halt to Corporate Mergers During Pandemic
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined forces on
Tuesday to propose a bill that would ban mergers and acquisitions while
the U.S. is facing the coronavirus pandemic.
'Democracy is Dead,' Declare Sanders Supporters After Bernie Taken Off New York Ballot
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The decision was made by the New York Board of Elections, one of whom
described holding the primary as a frivolous "beauty contest" for the
Vermont lawmaker's supporters.
'Halt This Madness': US Drove Last Year's Over $1.9 Trillion in Global Military Spending
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A new analysis on Monday showing that the world's military spending
surpassed $1.9 trillion last year, once again led by the United States
under President Donald Trump, provoked demands that governments across
the globe prioritize peace and the health of people as the coronavirus
pandemic continues to ravage the planet.
Without 'Transformative Change' to Global Economic Systems, Humans Risk Causing More Deadly Pandemics
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Human activity led to the conditions which allowed the new coronavirus
to spread from wildlife to people, a group of biodiversity experts wrote
Monday, and humans alone can change the world's economic systems to
prevent even deadlier pandemics from causing further destruction.
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