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What we know so far about health insurance losses and what it means for policy

The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.

You know you’re not doing great when you make a public show of giving some new privileges and benefits to your employees in the wake of a scandal, and the general reaction is “Wait, you weren’t letting people take paid time off to go to the doctor?"

Abdul Malik analyzes the major league sports stoppages from an organizing perspective.

Despite its outcome, this week’s NBA wildcat strike provided a crucial lesson for all of us: we have to disrupt owners’ profits and engage in collective action if we have any hope of making change.

We decided that we would stick with the Bernie program and continue to organize on the issues. FCCPR would be on the offensive on the issues and also take defensive actions against the Trump presidency and the Republicans.

Under the cover of the pandemic, the Trump Administration approved 3,000 requests to stop monitoring hazardous emissions and bypass health and safety rules. The missed inspections could add thousands of tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Puerto Rico has faced wave after wave of disaster since 2006. The unending state of emergency and the systematic use of executive orders have facilitated corruption, disinformation, chaotic crisis management, and enabled disaster capitalism.

Today, a mercenary attitude towards workers’ rights exists among many of the nation’s top lawyers, including anti-Trump, #Resistance types and high-ranking Democrats.

In a small city in northern New England, one local nonprofit mobilizes to meet the COVID-19 crisis in its New American community.