Dear John,
In case you missed it...this week the Voices for Human Needs blog examines the scourge of racism and xenophobia against Asian-Americans and reports on what the Biden Administration is doing about it. And we detail an op-ed CHN co-authored discussing the importance of quickly passing Biden's American Rescue Plan Finally, we unveil this week's COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, a by-the-numbers glance at how the pandemic is affecting people with low incomes and other vulnerable populations. Please share!
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This week on the blog...
COVID-19 and xenophobia: 'What faith and morality call us to do'
Feb. 5
Some of the latest actions from the Biden administration tackle one of the starkest departures between the current and the previous President -- racial equality and xenophobia. Biden issued a series of executive orders addressing long-standing systemic racism, including in areas such as education, housing, and criminal justice. One of these executive orders addresses an unnerving statistic; hate crimes in America rose to the highest level in more than a decade in the past year and the target is overwhelmingly Asian Americans. READ MORE »
Op-Ed: If GOP blocks Biden's COVID relief plan, America's working poor will suffer
Feb. 1
President Joe Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion COVID relief proposal, known as the “American Rescue Plan” would prevent millions of working families from falling even deeper into poverty. It is desperately needed, because the COVID-recession has resulted in millions of low-income workers losing their jobs, working fewer hours and having to stay home to care for children out of school due to the pandemic. READ MORE »
CHN's latest COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship
Feb. 5
The vaccinations and racial inequality edition. This week, the U.S. crossed an important hurdle in the fight against COVID-19. For the first time, the number of Americans receiving a COVID-19 vaccine exceeds the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. throughout the entire pandemic. But a trove of data released this week shows extreme racial disparities in who is getting the vaccine. White Americans are being vaccinated at rates close to four times as high as Black Americans in Pennsylvania and Florida, even though Black residents in these states are more than twice as likely to die from COVID as white residents. There is no reliable national data. READ MORE »
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