Europe is trying to integrate climate priorities into its pandemic relief plans, but the U.S. has its head in the sand.
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.
Since March, at least 40 states have reported an increase in opioid overdose deaths.
The Trump administration attempted to block stimulus payments to incarcerated people before a federal court intervened.
An estimated 9 million eligible people have not received their first stimulus check.
One in nine Black and Latina women age 20 and over became unemployed last month.
The practice of transferring people from prisons with outbreaks has already proven deadly but has not stopped.
Desperately needed emergency food assistance would expire on September 30 under McConnell’s “skinny” stimulus bill.
“Go for much higher numbers, Republicans” was the squeal of retreat Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been waiting for.
The pandemic has caused tremendous suffering for rural and Native people as well as youth and people with disabilities.
Similar to 9/11, our current moment is one of collective trauma. Higher education must respond accordingly.