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In case you missed it... this week the Voices for Human Needs blog discusses President Trump's latest strange mutterings regarding voting, and explains why the nation's eviction crisis is a public health crisis. And we detail the suffering of North Carolina residents due to the Senate's failure to pass robust COVID-19 relief legislation. Finally, we unveil this week's COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, a by-the-numbers glance at how the pandemic is affecting low-income and other vulnerable people. Please share!
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This week on the blog...
"So let them send it in and let them go vote."
Sept. 3
That’s what President Trump said about voting by mail, in a North Carolina television interview on September 2. He was responding to a question about the 600,000 absentee ballots that could be mailed in North Carolina for the November election. Voicing skepticism once again over the integrity of mailed ballots, he suggested that people test the system by sending in their absentee ballot and then showing up to vote on Election Day. “…if the system is as good as they say it is, then they obviously won’t be able to vote,” he acknowledged. Okay, so if people follow his suggestion (an intentional act), they would be breaking the law. READ MORE
CDC agrees: The national eviction crisis is a public health emergency
Sept. 2
Last week, in a blog post headlined, “The national eviction crisis has arrived,” we detailed the sad reality that millions of Americans are now at dire risk of losing their homes. The primary reasons for this are COVID-19, the almost incomprehensible loss of jobs in the U.S., and the failure of Congress to approve comprehensive relief for renters and extend an eviction moratorium on federally backed housing. But the eviction crisis is not just a crisis involving housing and homelessness. Turns out, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) it also constitutes a public health emergency. READ MORE »
North Carolina lawmakers fail to bring relief to struggling residents
Aug. 31
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's economy is hurting, yet residents can expect little in the way of federal relief. U.S. Senate lawmakers have recessed without passing a fifth coronavirus relief package, meaning the earliest Americans could expect any form of aid would be mid-September. According to census survey data, nearly half of North Carolina households included someone who had lost employment income between March and the end of July. Lindsay Saunders, board member of the anti-poverty group RESULTS, said elected officials aren't treating the situation with the urgency it deserves. READ MORE »
CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship
Sept. 4
Labor Day Edition. In August, we saw slower progress in job growth than in the previous two months. The 1.4 million jobs gained included 238,000 temporary Census workers, whose jobs will end in about a month. While total unemployment declined to 8.4 percent, it was 13 percent for Blacks, 10.5 percent for Latinx, and 7.3 percent for whites, underscoring continued disparities in the way the pandemic recession is hitting different racial/ethnic groups. COVID-19 is not going away. “There are several states that are at risk for surging, namely North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci, warning about the possibility of further spread over the holiday weekend. READ MORE »
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