As the U.S. enters the holiday season, millions of people across the country are struggling to find enough to eat, with the hunger relief group Feeding America warning that some 54 million U.S. residents currently face food insecurity amid a massive public health and economic crisis. Food insecurity in the U.S.
We speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about the deaths of two leading figures he reported on: New York City Mayor David Dinkins and beloved Puerto Rican social leader Carlos “Taso” Zenón. “Most people forget [Dinkins] was a Democratic Socialist before democratic socialism was in vogue,” notes González.
He knows that I didn’t grow up with the holiday and don’t enjoy it.
A playbook for when your family falls down the rabbit hole.
What to expect, and what risks you’ll take, from the moment you enter the airport.
Slate Money talks Steve Mnuchin, Affirm, DoorDash and Airbnb.
The Treasury secretary is kicking the crutches out from under the economy before it’s ready.
When scandal surfaced, the historic American bank’s preoccupation with its past helped keep it in denial about its present.
“We are in a very serious situation, but we can do something about it,” said Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert.
The requirements of Pfizer’s shots create a “use it or lose it” situation.
The treatment is not authorized for patients who are hospitalized due to the coronavirus or who require oxygen therapy.
Black voters had Joe Biden’s back. Now he must prove he’s got theirs.
Biden will inherit an economy similar to one he and Obama did 12 years ago. But unlike last time, he’ll have few tools to deal with it.
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
In Egypt, the executive director of the country’s leading human rights group has been arrested as part of an unprecedented crackdown on activists and journalists. Gasser Abdel-Razek was arrested at his home just days after two other staffers for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights were also arrested.
This may be the surest sign yet that the formal transition is now underway.
“It took him 34 losses to figure that out?
One of the numerous White House and Republican officials to contract the COVID-19 virus is HUD director Ben Carson. With the Trump administration news cycle adding years to every day, Carson’s condition was kept out of public. On Friday, Carson wrote on his Facebook page that his experience became very dire.
Carson wrote: “Thank you everyone for your support and prayers as Candy and I battled COVID-19.
The Desert Sun reports that as essential workers, farmworkers will likely have earlier access than most of the public to the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available for distribution. However, a coalition of California farmworker and health advocacy groups including the UFW Foundation (UFWF) say that farmworkers should be prioritized for vaccination at the same time as healthcare workers, who’ll likely be first.
It’s been 191 days since the House passed the $3 trillion HEROES Act, and 55 days since the House passed their compromise $2.2 trillion bill, both of which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to take up. And in just 37 days, the fraying remnant of the safety net created by the CARES Act back in March will expire.
Agencies that have typically worked with the federal government to resettle refugees in the U.S. have welcomed the pledge from President-elect Joe Biden to raise admissions to 125,000 annually. I wrote “typically worked” because the outgoing administration has decimated the resettlement program, reducing admissions to record lows and leading to the closure of some agencies.
The most direct way the Fed could increase its aid to the economy is through two temporary lending programs.
By Tina Vasquez and Tamar Sarai Davis
Between 1909 and 1979, 20,000 people—primarily women of color—were forcibly sterilized in California. A part of the growing eugenics movement, compulsory sterilizations were part of a broad campaign aimed at controlling the bodies and determining the futures of women who lived at the deepest margins of society.
Many noted that as she FINALLY kicked the transition process into gear, she never referred to Biden as the “president-elect.
Biden’s pick for Treasury will give him a close partner, steeped in knowledge of the Fed, who can navigate the wishes of progressive Democrats and the sensitivities of financial markets.
“I have always strived to do what is right,” GSA administrator Emily Murphy said in a letter to the president-elect on Monday.
The California Democrat’s announcement comes after progressives expressed anger at her handling of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s hearings.
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