The COVID-19 Pandemic has pointed out the many ways in which key aspects of the economic system are broken. In stories in the New York Times, German news outlet DW, and the International Network of Street Newspapers, Street Root, Litigation Director Claudia Wilner, Staff Attorney Britney Wilson, and I talk about the economic and social  impact of COVID-19 on indigent people unable to pay fines, on people with disabilities, and on students of color and low-income families.