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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.

Protestors gather at Boston City hall and march through the Boston downtown as they march to demand immediate action for climate justice at Boston, Massachusetts, October 15, 2020.
Op-Ed
Environment & Health

The US Is Missing a Chance to Tackle Climate Crisis and Pandemic Relief Together

Europe is trying to integrate climate priorities into its pandemic relief plans, but the U.S. has its head in the sand.
by
Alexis Goldstein,
Truthout
October 20, 2020
Truthout
Activists rallied for evidence-based harm reduction policies in front of the James A. Byrne Federal Courthouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 5, 2019.
News
Environment & Health

Overdoses Are Skyrocketing During COVID-19. The DEA Is Making It Worse.

Since March, at least 40 states have reported an increase in opioid overdose deaths.
by
Mike Ludwig,
Truthout
October 20, 2020
Truthout
A covid stimulus check
News
Prisons & Policing

Activists Are Mobilizing to Help Incarcerated People Get Their Stimulus Checks

The Trump administration attempted to block stimulus payments to incarcerated people before a federal court intervened.
by
Mike Ludwig,
Truthout
October 14, 2020
Truthout
People receive food outside of a Brooklyn mosque and cultural center on September 18, 2020, in New York City.
News
Economy & Labor

One-Third of Americans Can’t Pay Their Bills as Stimulus Talks Stall

An estimated 9 million eligible people have not received their first stimulus check.
by
Mike Ludwig,
Truthout
October 9, 2020
Truthout
Migreldi Lara, a single mother of three who is out of work as a hair stylist due to the pandemic, stands with her daughters during a protest outside the Berks County Services Building in Reading, Pennsylvania, on September 1, 2020.
Op-Ed
Economy & Labor

Capitalism Made Women of Color More Vulnerable to the COVID Recession

One in nine Black and Latina women age 20 and over became unemployed last month.
by
Tithi Bhattacharya,
Truthout
October 6, 2020
Truthout
The practice of transferring people from prisons with outbreaks has already proven deadly but has not stopped.
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

I’m Living in Fear of COVID as New People Get Transferred Into the Prison I’m In

The practice of transferring people from prisons with outbreaks has already proven deadly but has not stopped.
by
Christopher Blackwell,
Truthout
September 20, 2020
Truthout
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conducts a news conference after the Senate Republican Policy luncheon in Hart Building on September 15, 2020.
News
Economy & Labor

Millions of Children Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill

Desperately needed emergency food assistance would expire on September 30 under McConnell’s “skinny” stimulus bill.
by
Mike Ludwig,
Truthout
September 18, 2020
Truthout
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell approaches the microphones to speak to members of the media after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon at the Hart Senate Office Building, September 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Op-Ed
Politics & Elections

Another Day of COVID, Another Failed Stimulus, Another Thousand Deaths

“Go for much higher numbers, Republicans” was the squeal of retreat Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been waiting for.
by
William Rivers Pitt,
Truthout
September 17, 2020
Truthout
Vegetables are repacked into boxes from the Hoosier Hills Food Bank before arriving at Pantry 279 in Ellettsville, Indiana, to help those experiencing food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
News
Economy & Labor

Rural and Native Communities Are Hard Hit by COVID-Era Food Insecurity

The pandemic has caused tremendous suffering for rural and Native people as well as youth and people with disabilities.
by
Eleanor J. Bader,
Truthout
September 13, 2020
Truthout
Members of the University of South Carolina football team join student athletes on campus during a demonstration against racial inequality and police brutality on August 31, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina.
Op-Ed
Education & Youth

Universities Should Learn Lessons of 9/11 and Transform in the Face of Pandemic

Similar to 9/11, our current moment is one of collective trauma. Higher education must respond accordingly.
by
Sepehr Vakil &
Julissa Muñiz,
Truthout
September 11, 2020
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