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News & Views | 9/17/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
The new legislation, according to Sanders' office, would help "families generate savings, wealth, and credit, while bringing millions of American workers into a more fair banking system."

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Sens. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led a group of Democrats in introducing a resolution on student loan cancellation. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdmc/21502010111">Senate Democrats</a>/flickr/cc)</p>

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Broadly cancelling student loan debt would be a game-changer for millions of people in this country and a lifeline when they desperately need it."


President Donald Trump's tweets have been slapped with a "misleading" warning—again. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The president's latest baseless attack on mail-in ballots drew yet another warning from Twitter.


A man preaches on the street about the dire state of the economy on August 25, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The difference is stark between profits for billionaires and the widespread economic misery in our nation."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump thinks of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans like a poll number or a stock market price."


Bottles of a trial Covid-19 vaccine on a table in a lab in Brussels on June 18, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Governments will prolong this crisis in all of its human tragedy and economic damage if they allow pharmaceutical companies to protect their monopolies and profits."


Reps. Barbara Lee (L) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R) support the MORE Act, which would end federal criminalization of cannabis. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"If you're trying to punt it as a result of a political calculation, I disagree with that calculation," Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said earlier of the MORE Act.



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
"I'm so grateful this victory will allow us to be better advocates for our community," one nurse said.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Labor rights and women's rights advocates called on the U.S. Senate to follow suit on Thursday after the Democratic-led House passed an historic bipartisan bill to protect the rights of pregnant workers—but expressed little hope that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would prioritize the legislation.


Social Security

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Many older Americans cannot afford—let alone survive—another four years of President Trump."



by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The Democratic candidate's campaign is sparking concern that a redux of 2016—including a lack of outreach and a dearth of voter excitement—is now underway.

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"Big pharma's secretive, profit-driven model of science is making the invention and dissemination of COVID treatments and vaccines more difficult than it needs to be," writes Morten. The industry, he warns, "generally prefers to keep its scientific advances on COVID-19 as secret as possible, even though this secrecy needlessly slows down the process of developing effective treatments and vaccines. And our law currently lets them." (Photo: Skynesher/Getty Images)

by Christopher Morten
It is time for our government to put science and public health ahead of private profit.


"Trump’s right-wing base and leading Republicans are in lockstep with both types of denial. They embrace the most absurd claims about climate ... And they refuse to recognize or deplore his autocratic moves," writes Solomon. (Photo: Oil Change International/Twitter)

by Norman Solomon
Climate change is an emergency. And so is Trumpism. Flames are approaching what’s left of democratic structures in the United States.


President Donald Trump speaks during his coronavirus task force briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 8, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Mitchell Zimmerman
Trump and his falsehoods are responsible for most of America’s 200,000 coronavirus deaths to date.


Anthony Miller #17 of the Chicago Bears kneels in the end zone before the game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on September 13, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

by Robert Lipsyte
Is this athletic revolt for real and is it a danger to Donald Trump?


An aerial shot of the chemical plants and factories that line the roads and suburbs of the area known as 'Cancer Alley' taken on October 15, 2013. (Photo: Giles Clarke/Getty Images.)

by Robert C. Koehler
State and local powers have approved a 14-plant plastics-production complex that would more than triple the levels of carcinogens in the region. It’s up to the residents to fight back to save their community.

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