Julia Conley, staff writer
While giving fossil fuel companies access to relief funds ostensibly meant for small businesses struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration on Monday slapped solar and wind power firms with retroactive rent bills dating back two years.
Ashley Shelton
In Louisiana, and across the U.S., we are seeing a disproportionate number of Black people die from this virus. (Photo: Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As workers, employers, and elected officials continued to grapple with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns nationwide, the ACLU on Monday released a set of principles to help guide federal, state, and local policies governing the use of digital contact tracing technologies that could help curb the spread of Covid-19 but have generated serious privacy concerns.
Julia Conley, staff writer
A new study published Monday showed a strong correlation between last month's in-person primary election in Wisconsin and increase in coronavirus infections in the state, prompting new calls for a national vote-by-mail system.
Jon Queally, staff writer
"The reality of reopening school buildings and college campuses is that any missteps could cost lives... Once again, this administration has politics trumping science."
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Ellen Brown
The American people are therefore entitled to share in the benefits and the profits. Banking needs to be made a public utility. (Photo: Twitter/@publicbankla)
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Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In response to the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the news industry—forcing tens of thousands of layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts in recent months—the nation's largest labor union for media workers launched a new "Save the News" campaign on Monday and urged Congress to provide relief to an industry that should be considered an essential service in a democracy.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This should be political suicide. Let's make sure it is."
Esha Bhandari, ReNika Moore
Until there is a reliable, affordable, and widely accessible treatment or vaccine for COVID-19, employers must maintain best practices to protect workers and reduce COVID-19 transmission in workplaces. (Photo: Shutterstock)
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Kumar Venkat, Susan Cholette
Greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars and air travel add up to more than 15% of net US national emissions. We could put a significant dent in passenger transport emissions if many white collar employees continue to work from home all or part of the time and if businesses replace a large part of air travel with video conferences. (Photo: Danielle Scott/Flickr/cc)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Public health experts from around the world called on the WHO global assembly to take a firm stand against "vaccine nationalism" which would keep countries from immunizing people once an effective vaccine is discovered, putting the entire world at risk for continuing outbreaks.
Jon Queally, staff writer
If the world is able to "flatten the carbon curve" in the same way it is now desperately trying to flatten the infection rate curve "then people might look back in 50 years at this time and thank us, you know, instead of curse us."
Pierre Tristam
Palm Coast’s enormous food distribution to some 5,000 families in need on May 2. (Photo: © FlaglerLive)
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