live in an alley
at the back of a lawmaker’s mind.A mind with no imaginationfor our reality, they say. With teeth
rowed like cigarettes, factory still,my mothers sweat through a week
of soil on their skin,
unconcerned with grace.One has grace and a gold tooth,
a tiny heart etched in the middle.One knows a key ingredient of beauty
is sorrow.Oven burns cross their wrists.
Fingers calloused from hot plates.
Parenting advice on distance learning, sibling fighting, and meddling in-laws.
Employers are using pay cuts to stay afloat during the recession, an unusual move that could signal deep damage to the labor market.
Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that international students attending universities that switch to online-only courses in the fall would be required to leave the United States. By threatening student visas, the Trump administration, which has been pushing to reopen businesses and schools despite the continuing pandemic, was widely seen as pressuring colleges to resume in-person classes.
Guess what happens if the government takes away all the aid it’s been sending people.
Everyone thought they had a little more time to extend aid to Americans, but they apparently circled the wrong date.
When we put out a call for stories about life with student loans, we received nearly 700 emails in response.
“It’s pretty much a disaster.
Alarm over the missing data, which was restored Thursday, became the latest source of tension between the CDC and administration officials.
Hospital chains saw the summer as a potential respite when they could resume elective procedures. But that effort is colliding with a surge in new coronavirus cases nationwide.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief Seema Verma has disputed the report, calling its findings “disingenuous.
The change in federal policy comes as surging coronavirus cases have strained the nation’s testing capacity
HHS watchdog finds Seema Verma mishandled millions of dollars in federal contracts that ultimately benefited friends, former Trump officials.
“For us, the risk of COVID-19 versus the chance of the kids having more time with Jesus, it was hands down: the chance to have more of Jesus.
“There are no equals to this.
With only a few weeks until August recess, Democrats and Republicans remain far apart on key issues.
We’re economists, and our analysis suggests Congress is seriously underfunding efforts to combat Covid-19.
An extension would give taxpayers until Oct. 15 to file their returns, though they would still have to pay what they owe by July 15.
The acting chair of the CEA will leave Trump without another senior economist as discussions start about a new economic aid package.
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says unhoused people living in encampments should be allowed to remain where they are to help stop the spread of COVID-19, we go to Philadelphia, where the mayor has postponed the eviction of an encampment planned for this morning. “The Philadelphia Housing Authority has about 5,000 vacant properties,” notes Sterling Johnson, an organizer with Black and Brown Workers Cooperative, who joins us from the camp.
The United States hit an all-time high of 75,600 new COVID cases Thursday — the largest number recorded in a single day since the pandemic began. Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says the spike in cases resulted from states rushing to reopen their economies. We speak with investigative journalist Sonia Shah about the government’s failed response, the false idea that the virus is a “foreign incursion,” and “vaccine nationalism.
As the coronavirus spreads in Yemen, where the population already devastated by the world’s worst humanitarian crisis faces growing hunger and aid shortages, the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition continues to drop bombs in the country. We speak to Yemeni scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi, who calls the ongoing crisis “Trump’s war.” “We’re seeing death rates that are just astronomical,” Al-Adeimi says.
As health experts warn the coronavirus is on the rise in 41 states, many governors are reimposing restrictions after attempts at opening up the economy, but President Trump wants schools open. We speak with public health historian John Barry, who warns “The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse” if we don’t take bolder action now.
Jung Youth, who created the cover used in the video, slams “propaganda video.
“Oregonians have the right to walk through downtown Portland,” states the suit, which accuses shadowy federal squads of violating citizens’ constitutional rights.
On Thursday, more than three weeks after New York held its June 23 Democratic primary, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino conceded defeat to progressive challenger Mimi Rocah. With 41,000 votes tabulated, Rocah, who is a former federal prosecutor, leads Scarpino 68-32. Westchester County is a reliably blue county in most contests and Rocah will be the heavy favorite in November against Republican Bruce Bendish, who lost to Scarpino 70-30 four years ago.
President Donald Trump waited over 14 hours and played a round of golf before paying tribute to the late Rep. John Lewis.
Fox News’ push right now is to have schools reopen, children go to school, teachers return to classrooms, and the world to pretend that the COVID-19 pandemic is just a bad case of the flu. That’s the angle being taken (and proven wrong time and again over the past few months), but the propaganda wing of the Republican Party has its marching orders and those orders are to drive their viewers off of a cliff.
