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It’s not too late to start protecting employment or to make medical care for COVID-19 free.

Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap.

And if the proposed changes go through unchecked, this inequity will only be compounded as Philadelphians seeks to rebuild after the COVID-induced economic crisis.

With business slow everywhere, it becomes doubly important to shop at independent stores like these. With the racist scrutiny many Asian people are facing during the coronavirus crisis, it’s triply important to support these stores that are being entirely overlooked.

The administration says it won’t provide documentation for audits into $500 billion in corporate bailout funds.

The bank said it would make diversity training mandatory for all employees after a New York Times report about racism at its Arizona branches.

Steep dents in consumer optimism are to be expected with such severe and widespread economic pain.

You might not want to spend your quarantine in a city. But the rural places many Americans treat as playgrounds, and the workers who keep them running, will suffer for it.

The 2020 census results—which will provide updated portraits of communities of all sizes across the far reaches of America—will be crucial in planning for the considerable changes that lie ahead.

Workers from both Amazon and Instacart want more access to paid sick time off. At this time, it’s available only to those who have tested positive for the coronavirus or get placed on mandatory self-quarantine.

My childhood friend has joined America’s “deaths of despair.” A country cannot live up to its potential when its citizens don’t live up to theirs. R.I.P., Keylan Knapp.

We have known for years that gentrification has disproportionately displaced black and Latino people from their homes across the U.S., “excluding existing residents from the benefits of a revitalizing neighborhood,” as one study put it.

The Washington Post, March 10, 2020, Fears Of Corporate Debt Bomb Grow As Coronavirus Outbreak Worsens The coronavirus panic could threaten a $10 trillion mountain of corporate debt, unleashing a cycle of layoffs and business spending cuts that would hit the economy just as some analysts are warning of a recession. Financial markets already are

“This is going to make it harder for community groups to engage in the process,” said Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “These are substantial changes that are being presented as a technical update, with almost none of those changes being advertised. So yeah — it’s sort of a stealth maneuver.”

Over 6 million children in the United States live with a grandparent.