Child care providers who struggled in the pandemic are asking for economic relief and recognition as essential workers.
Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19
Since COVID-19 hit the United States, it’s been at the top of every news outlet’s headlines. However, the disparate impact and deep injustices that the crisis has wrought often go unmentioned. So do the underlying oppressive systems that allowed the pandemic to reach the magnitude that it has. Truthout is taking on these injustices with a broad-ranging series, “Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19,” which addresses how the pandemic intersects with issues of social, economic, environmental, racial, gender and disability justice. Through investigative reporting and dynamic analysis, we’ll paint a real picture of this pandemic’s implications — and sketch a bold new image of what a post-pandemic world could look like. In this series, journalists, activists, organizers and thinkers, many of whom have been brutally impacted by the crisis themselves, will share stories and insights that point the way toward a transformed future.
The combined wealth of nine new billionaires could cover the cost of vaccinating everyone in low-income countries.
Many of these grassroots responses are taking place in communities that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.
The vaccine rollout is being derailed by the fact that the people have no trust in the ICE jailers giving the shots.
Biden is under intense pressure to choose people over pharmaceutical profits as COVID outbreaks continue globally.
The state has vaccinated 69 percent of the people in prison. However, most guards are not required to get vaccinated.
The World Trade Organization’s most powerful members quashed a proposal to waive vaccine patents for poorer countries.
Standardized testing under pandemic conditions will only magnify the inequities the tests were designed to perpetuate.
The U.S., U.K., EU and Israel are hoarding vaccines. To beat COVID, we need true global cooperation instead.
Still, advocates say Biden must fundamentally change how agencies process unaccompanied kids on the border.