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According to a recent poll at least half of people in the four largest US cities have experienced job loss, and/or reduced wages and hours due to COVID19. The greatest problems are found in Black and Latino households. And it's going to get worse.

We should focus on racism as the problem the nation needs to tackle, because working on that problem is the key to working on all others. We are justified in taking this approach by the millions that are now building a movement in the streets.

Perhaps the only thing that will force Trump to back down from an attempted overthrow of the election results is an overwhelming popular vote against him on Election Day, notwithstanding how many mail ballots have yet to be counted.

Over the last several decades, many cities around the world have experimented with free transit. Free Public Transit editors Judith Delheim and Jason Prince collect a dozen-and-half essays of these stories written by activists and academics.

Though they’ve kept working in some of the most dangerous jobs, they’re now facing the prospect of furloughs and layoffs if there’s no more federal funding for transit.

Marking re-dedication of the San Francisco monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade on Saturday 9/12/20, poet Peter Neil Carroll reflects on his friendship with the US veterans who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War.

Though they’ve kept working in some of the most dangerous jobs, they’re now facing the prospect of furloughs and layoffs if there’s no more federal funding for transit.

Wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds in less than 50 years, according to a major report by the conservation group WWF.

In an unusual and blunt rebuttal of a former colleague, 99 Stanford medical experts reject the "falsehoods and misrepresentations of science" concerning Covid 19 by Dr. Scott Atlas, a Trump advisor, warning of "immense avoidable harm."

Far more Democrats than Republicans are requesting mail ballots in key battleground states, including voters who didn't participate in 2016.