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News & Views | 10/29/20

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Workers in this pandemic aren’t just losing their jobs—an estimated 12 million workers and their family members have lost employer-provided health insurance due to COVID-19. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Heidi Shierholz
It is cruel, and bad economics, to withhold stimulus aid.

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
A U.N.-backed report released Thursday emphasized that the ability to avoid more public health crises like the coronavirus is entirely within the human populations' control. 


Certified registered nurses Kimberly Scheider, left, and Debbie Jessell, right, walk up to a patient's car before starting a Covid-19 test at Penn State Health St. Joseph on March 27, 2020. (Photo: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The Trump administration has refused to resume work on new federal regulations—tabled in 2017—despite the coronavirus pandemic.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Refugees' rights organizations on Thursday said the Trump administration has been ramping up deportations of Haitians and other asylum-seekers in the weeks before Election Day, sending hundreds of people back to countries where they may face gang and political violence and potentially spreading the novel coronavirus in places that lack infrastructure to cope with outbreaks. 

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A child, age 2, from Honduras cries as U.S. Border Patrol agents detain her family near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas on June 12, 2018. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
The "inhumane" policy was "driven by an administration... determined to go to unthinkable extremes to deliver on political promises," the report found.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"You're attacking the health of the people that you represent," the Democratic challenger said to Georgia's incumbent GOP senator.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee accused HHS officials of engaging in a "cover-up to conceal the Trump administration's misuse of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for partisan political purposes."


Senior Adviser to the President Jared Kushner listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak with members of the coronavirus task force during a briefing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic on Thursday, April 2, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"We know their handling of the pandemic was dictated by politics, and that's a big part of the reason it was such an unmitigated disaster."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Americans can believe what he says or they can believe their own eyes. Millions are unemployed—they know the economy is not booming."


Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration's Covid-19 testing czar, discussed the pandemic on NBC's "Today" show Wednesday. (Photo: NBC/screenshot)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As cases surge just before Election Day, studies show universal mask-wearing prevents outbreaks and could save tens of thousands of lives.


U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wa.) argues that Google and Facebook's "unfair and abusive practices of taking publishers' online content without proper compensation, diverting user traffic away from local news websites, and using formats like Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to obtain data about local news consumers" are decimating the local journalism industry. (Photo Illustration: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"These trillion-dollar companies scrape local news content and data for their own sites and leverage their market dominance to force local news to accept little to no compensation for their intellectual property."

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Maybe we need to accept the challenge of proving in this election that one of the world’s longest-standing democracies can rise to the occasion and vote to uphold the foundation of its system, elections themselves. (Photo: urbantimes.co)

by Karen Greenberg
America's daunting New World and the coming election.


President Donald J. Trump talks to members of the press on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, prior to boarding Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md. to begin his trip to Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Nevada. (Photo: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

by Ruth Conniff
Trump, GOP dismiss the pandemic as Wisconsin cases spike.


Let’s vote. Let’s recognize and reckon with our dark history. (Photo: ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

by Tim Koechlin
The Trumpian tragedy is doubly tragic because it makes so much sense. We can decide that Trump is an anomaly. But, in fact, Trump looks and acts a lot like America.


President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin participate in a video conference with representatives of large banks and credit card companies about more financial assistance for small businesses in the Roosevelt Room at the White House April 7, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
Look at what they said and did. And look at when they said and did it.


This election, regardless of who wins, marks an opportunity for news outlets to recommit to the climate story, which will only become more important and all-encompassing in the years ahead. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News / Getty Images)

by Mark Hertsgaard, Andrew McCormick
In the few days that remain before the election and in the months that will follow, journalists must ask themselves if they’re truly conveying the gravity of the climate crisis to their audiences, as well as all the challenges and opportunities it entails.


We can start a nuclear war in five minutes, faster than we can order a pizza. (Photo: Pixabay/geralt/cc)

by Robert C. Koehler
Those who are committed to peace and global equality are forced to work for it in a world that is seriously prejudiced in favor of war.

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