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Trump’s EPA Is Unleashing the Pollution That Makes Us Vulnerable to COVID-19
The suspension of air pollution regulations threatens to further harm communities struggling to cope with the pandemic.
Minimum-Wage Workers Are Dying to Keep Everyone Else Alive. They Deserve More.
Low-wage workers are standing between our society and calamity. They deserve health care and a living wage now.
Pandemic Shutdown Separates Parents From Their Children in the Foster System
Without emergency changes to foster care law during the COVID-19 crisis, parents stand to lose their kids.
Trump Shared a Tweet Urging Fauci’s Firing. Will Fauci Be Axed as a Scapegoat?
The tweet wrongly suggested Fauci said all of the same things the president was saying at the end of February.
Trump Will Risk Lives If He Reopens Economy at the End of the Month
Trump chose to do nothing for weeks -- now we're in a crisis with thousands of deaths and no end in sight.
Sanders Says Congress Must Stop Trump From Privatizing the Postal Service
President Trump is standing in the way of any relief funding for the USPS.
Rationing PPE Means Checking on COVID Patients Less Often. This Can Be Deadly.
Lapses in care imperil COVID-19 patients, whose health can deteriorate very quickly.
We Can’t Allow Trump to Use the Coronavirus Crisis to Attack the Postal Service
Postal workers are essential to our public health and integrity of our elections.
Auto Union Official Fired for Warning Fellow Workers About COVID-19
A union leader at a GM subsidiary plant in Michigan was fired for telling members that coworkers might have COVID-19.
Trump Admin Says Employers Don’t Have to Record Coronavirus Cases Among Workers
Public health experts and former Labor Department officials said the new rules are an absurd attack on worker safety.