When Will It Be Safe To End Coronavirus Lockdown?
This week, a group of researchers at Columbia University’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences released a report projecting that COVID-19 cases and deaths will rise significantly if more states continue to lift shelter-in-place orders and reopen businesses.
The White House’s Push To Reopen The Economy Is A Dangerous Gamble
“White House plans to shift its coronavirus messaging toward boosting the economy and highlighting ‘success stories’ of businesses, reducing its public emphasis on health statistics.”
In Harvey's Wake, Residents Near Houston Industry Suffer Pollution Spike
Refinery shutdowns leave communities vulnerable to releases of hazardous emissions
An Easier Way to Get to Universal Health Care by Fran Korten — YES! Magazine
Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.
The Resistance Wins First Round on Healthcare
Yesterday, the Center for Popular Democracy brought over a thousand people together in Washington D.C. to protest the Republican plan to take healthcare from an estimated 24 million Americans. This afternoon, March 24, Republicans pulled their bill from the floor. With today’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, we see the fruits…
Trump Again Downplays Steve Bannon’s White House Role | The Huffington Post
Bannon is “a guy who works for me,” Trump said.
India's sugarcane farmers: A cycle of debt and suicide | India | Al Jazeera
How rising debts, pesticides and erratic rainfall are pushing some farmers in southern India to suicide.
Automakers Urge Trump to Undo One of America’s Biggest CO2 Reductions to Date
Twelve automakers sacrifice the future by urging Pres. Trump to lower fuel-economy standards, which might be the single largest CO2 reduction in U.S. history
If we keep treating health insurance as a product, nothing will change
One of the biggest problems with health insurance is that we allow Republicans to treat it as if it is a consumer product.
