Many workers making the masks face a risk of infection at work and some lack access to bathrooms with soap and water.
Economy & Labor
New Mexico is just one state whose fracking boom appears poised to fall off an economic cliff amid the pandemic.
The president intends to give Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin free reign over the $500 billion bailout fund.
The governor of New York is putting Wall Street insiders in charge of his state’s economic recovery.
As Spectrum workers continue a third year of striking, they are also demanding publicly owned telecommunications.
The Senate’s unanimously approved historic emergency relief package includes a large corporate bailout fund.
The package establishes a $4.5 trillion fund to bail out large corporations with little to no enforceable restrictions.
The bill also bans companies owned by Vice President Mike Pence or members of Congress from receiving stimulus funds.
A one-time 3 percent wealth tax on the world’s richest 10 percent could raise $9 trillion toward economic recovery.
Trump’s claim that this will end by Easter cannot rationally exist in the same universe as the $2 trillion aid package.