Added workload combined with short staffing is just one of the obstacles facing schools amid a persistent pandemic.
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.
For all his campaign promises, Biden has failed to set up a multilevel systemic public health response to COVID.
Governor DeSantis says I’m teaching in person. Where is the uprising of professors? Where is the change.org petition?
Amid a pandemic, the conditions at youth prisons have become all the more inhumane.
Prisons in multiple states restricted access to pandemic data in 2021.
The president needs to get a handle on this at long last, and stop mollifying capitalists with exercises in futility.
For months, a small coalition of parents and educators has sounded the alarm about New York City’s reopening plan.
Untold numbers of tenants could lose their homes during a COVID surge even before landlords file for evictions in court.
Structural barriers are at play. If we want more people vaccinated, we must give guaranteed sick leave to all workers.
AIDS researcher Sam Friedman discusses the lessons learned from the movement to lower prices for vital AIDS treatments.