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News & Views | 5/6/20

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An election official checks in a resident at a drive-up polling place set up outside of Roosevelt Elementary School on April 7, 2020 in Racine, Wisconsin.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Failing to act now would put our democracy and the 2020 election at risk."

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Students hold signs as they take part in a walkout at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Massachusetts on April 30, 2018 in response to the school's handling of a sexual assault case.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Advocacy groups that support survivors of sexual harassment and assault are vowing to fight against federal rules set to take effect in August governing how all public and private U.S. schools, including higher education institutions, must respond to allegations involving students.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Public education advocates on Wednesday rejected New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pledge to work with billionaire entrepreneurs to "reimagine" his state's school systems once the coronavirus pandemic subsides. 


A recipient carries a box of food as others wait in line at a Food Bank distribution for those in need as the coronavirus pandemic continues on April 9, 2020 in Van Nuys, California.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Child and household food insecurity are off the charts."


Lorrine Paradela poses for a photograph in Stockton, California on February 7, 2020. Paradela, a 45-year-old single mother, is one of the 125 Stockton residents receiving monthly cash disbursements. The scoffed-at idea of paying everyone a basic income as machines take people's jobs is getting a fresh look as a possible remedy for economies cratered by the coronavirus pandemic.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"If there isn't a minimum income floor to fall back on when this kind of massive shock hits, people literally have no options."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Abbott does not care about the lives of Texans... Our governor is morally bankrupt."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign but you can't suspend a revolution. We have a lot of work to do."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is what happens when Wall Street captures Congress and writes themselves bailout check after bailout check as working people die."


The Seattle Indian Health Board's Esther Lucero, left, and Abigail Echo-Hawk, right, with a box of body bags.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"I hope that the New York Board of Elections takes from this ruling a newfound appreciation of their role in safeguarding our democracy," Andrew Yang said in a statement.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on dividends to enrich wealthy shareholders," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, these "corporations should be using this money to compensate the thousands of workers they laid off."

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Why doesn’t Gov. Andrew Cuomo (right) listen to parents and teachers and students, who will tell him to reinvent schools by fully funding them? (Photo: Gov. Andrew Cuomo / flickr / cc)

by Diane Ravitch
The pandemic is turning into a grand opportunity for the foxes to raid the henhouse under cover of darkness.


The role of Chinese-American medical professionals was particularly worth noting in their early attempts to ready their communities for the invasion by the virus. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

by Yu Zhou
Buried by the news cycles are stories of how Chinese-American doctors, researchers, and community members are standing on the frontline in America’s fight against Covid-19.


People hold signs during a protest against the coronavirus shutdown in front of the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 24, 2020. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

by Ruth Conniff
The state's conservative justices raise issue of Japanese internment camps while discussing Governor Tony Evers's order.


Monty Bennett, a major donor to Trump and GOP Congress critters, pressured his political henchmen and hired two lobbying firms in March to punch a huge conglomerate loophole in the PPP bill. Led by Sen. Marco Rubio, Congress inserted a special-interest proviso decreeing that while a big business cannot apply for payments, each unit of the corporation can. (Photo: Google Maps, iStock)

by Jim Hightower
For starters, pigs are remarkably intelligent animals with a sense of social responsibility to the common good of the group.


Wildfires similarly show how our remaking of the natural world has had disastrous consequences. (Photo: Pixabay/CC)

by Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano
It’s clear from a recent litany of disasters—from the coronavirus pandemic to America’s deadliest wildfire in a century—there are forces that cannot be domesticated.


The Johnson government's repeated failures to act swiftly and effectively can and should be considered evil. (Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images)

by Catherine Rottenberg, Nira Yuval Davis
The UK government's failure to respond swiftly and effectively to the pandemic can and should be considered evil.

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