Congress boosted unemployment benefits. Now the challenge lies in getting them out to the unemployed, through underfunded state-level programs.
Parties and movement groups, Cuba and Vietnam, and African scholar activists face the Corona crisis
Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children and to buffer kids from trauma and stress. Supporting that work during COVID-19 requires direct cash support to families.
It breaks my heart that even black women at church — unfailing voters who rally their friends to turn out for every election — have asked me, “Will our votes even be counted?”
US president claimed WHO too willing to accept Chinese explanations over coronavirus outbreak
The Supreme Court decision fueled the civil rights movement and the call for voting rights that are now under assault across the country.
Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the US government is brokering a $2 billion arms sale to Rodrigo Duterte’s repressive regime. The sale would only pour further fuel on an already dire human rights catastrophe.
This week the COVID-related strike in Washington state’s Yakima Valley quadrupled in size, as workers walked out at three more apple packinghouses with two main demands for safer working conditions and an extra $2 an hour in hazard pay.
Andrea Circle Bear, 30, had been sentenced to 26 months in federal prison on a drug charge.
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