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Health insurance or food: Americans face difficult choices amid pandemic
Throughout the United States, Americans with chronic illnesses have been forced to navigate a healthcare system battered by the coronavirus pandemic while trying to afford medical treatment and resolve health insurance issues. That has led to many America ...[Read more]
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Atop the Powerful Budget Committee at Last, Bernie Sanders Wants to Go Big
To the chagrin of Republicans, the democratic socialist senator will play a central role in shepherding Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s agenda through Congress. ...[Read more]
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Worse Than Being in Iraq – Veteran & ER Doctor Says Pandemic Is Pushing Hospitals to Breaking Point
As the U.S. averages more than 200,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, we speak with Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency physician who has been treating patients since the beginning of the U.S. outbreak, first in New York City and now in Yuma, Arizona. Dr. Gilma ...[Read more]
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Trump demands Congress increase second stimulus check from $600 to $2,000. Here are the chances of that happening
President Donald Trump is demanding lawmakers raise the second round of stimulus checks to $2,000 per person, from $600. “I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple,” Trump said in ...[Read more]
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Americans are Broke and Hungry, as Politicians Have Sat on Their Hands
Covid-19 not only killed over 300,000 Americans, it also bankrupted millions. When it first attacked, congress and the white house rushed billions to rich corporations, while the Fed turned on the money spigot to keep the stock market afloat. But this lar ...[Read more]
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US – We Can’t Survive on $600. The New Relief Bill Is Not a Victory.
Democrats refused to seize a rare opportunity to outmaneuver Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. They settled for a COVID relief bill that skimps on benefits, provides tax breaks to the rich, and pulls us toward austerity extremism. ...[Read more]
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The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality
The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was ‘the great equalizer’ should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep divisions and inequalities in our societies. That said, the treatment of the dis ...[Read more]
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Up to 40 million Americans are set to be evicted from their homes after the holidays
According to research by the Aspen Institute, nearly 40 million Americans could face eviction over the next several months. The only thing holding back the flood right now is the CDC’s eviction moratorium order and a patchwork of state and local protect ...[Read more]
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House Democrats call on Biden to forgive $50,000 of borrower student debt
The pressure is building for President-elect Joe Biden to cancel federal student debt. The latest: a resolution led by prominent House Democrats urging Biden to act. On Thursday, Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alma Adams (D-NC), and Maxi ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders threatens government shutdown unless Americans get more stimulus checks
Senator Bernie Sanders has threatened to shut down the US government next week and keep lawmakers in Washington through Christmas unless they submit to his demand for another round of $1,200 stimulus checks for most Americans. “We're not going to go hom ...[Read more]
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They Had Saved Like They Were Supposed To. The Pandemic Took It All.
Even people who built rainy day funds over years are watching their savings run down to zero, with no relief from the government in sight. ...[Read more]
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