Why More Stimulus Is the Only Path to Recovery | Bernie’s Army Redeploys to Support Covid-19's Frontline Workers
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Don’t Believe the Debt Hawks—More Stimulus Is the Only Path to Recovery
Fear-mongering over the deficit is the absolute wrong approach to the Covid-19 crisis.
BY JOSH BIVENS
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Bernie’s Army Redeploys to Support Covid-19’s Frontline Workers
Bernie Sanders supporters are channeling the energy from the campaign into supporting organizing efforts among workers on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis.
BY STEVEN GREENHOUSE
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A Federal Jobs Program for Contact Tracing
To safely reopen the economy, we need a public health corps. Here’s how to build it.
BY DAYTON MARTINDALE
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Right-Wing Think Tanks Are Using Covid-19 To Push War with Iran
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and American Enterprise Institute are aggressively campaigning for military escalation and a tightening of sanctions.
BY SARAH LAZARE
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Congress: Either Come Babysit My Kids, or Cancel My Rent
I’m a mother of 6-year-old twins and like millions of other Americans, I can’t pay rent—so I’m going on a rent strike.
BY JENAY MANLEY
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Union Teachers Are Donating Their Stimulus Checks to the Undocumented
Undocumented workers are excluded from unemployment protections and stimulus checks, but not from union solidarity.
BY BROOKE ANDERSON
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“An Essential Procedure”: How Abortion Providers Are Persevering Through the Pandemic
In the face of Covid-19, clinics are continuing to provide safe abortions at a safe distance.
JESSICA CORBETT
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The Real Reason Why the WHO Waited Until March to Declare a Global Pandemic
The 2005 regulations pushed on the World Health Organization by the United States and the Europeans hampered the WHO’s ability to declare an emergency and a pandemic.
BY VIJAY PRASHAD
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WORKING IN THESE TIMES
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Bernie Lost Because America Doesn’t Have a Strong Labor Movement
Build the labor movement and watch the electorate change. That’s when the left will find its power.
BY HAMILTON NOLAN
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RURAL AMERICA IN THESE TIMES
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In Montana, Food Banks Battle Surging Demand and Shifting Supply Chains
The Covid-19 pandemic, which has pushed tens of thousands of Montanans out of work and sent shudders through commercial and retail supply chains, has hit food banks from both sides.
BY JOSEPH BULLINGTON
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