Tag: Pandemic crisis
How a Seattle neighborhood confronted food insecurity in the pandemic
Seattle’s square-mile neighborhood of South Park has turned its early pandemic community supports into a sustainable system tackling food insecurity.
Oil companies can’t find any buyers for refineries struggling amid pandemic...
“Refiners previously eking out a narrow profit — or acceptable loss — must decide whether their operations justify costly and necessary maintenance. Deferring work risks even more expensive, unplanned shutdowns.”
Trump rushed to reopen America. Now COVID is closing in on...
What is Trump and the GOP’s response to this looming catastrophe? Nothing.
Pandemic crisis and recession can spark a fight for real change...
After getting $600/week in jobless pay, going back to work for $7.25 sucks.
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Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families
The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.
Poof! It’s gone
The America we once knew...gone!
What are Erik Prince’s plans for the second Trump administration?
New plans from Erik Prince, a persistent figure in America’s private military complex, signal a wider push to privatize government functions in Trump’s second term.
NOAA will stop tracking costs of climate crisis-fueled disasters in wake of Trump cuts
The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information—which stretches back 45 years—would be archived.
GOP Medicaid cuts would drop millions from coverage while boosting tax breaks for the...
New Republican plan could strip 8.6 million Americans of healthcare while permanently enriching the ultra-wealthy through revived 2017 tax breaks.