News | Economy & Labor Mutual Aid Efforts Are Working to Fill the Gaps of Biden’s COVID Response Many of these grassroots responses are taking place in communities that have been hit hardest by the pandemic. By Robert R. Raymond , Truthout May 4, 2021 Truthout
News | Immigration Abuse and Lack of Transparency Fuel Vaccine Mistrust in ICE Jails The vaccine rollout is being derailed by the fact that the people have no trust in the ICE jailers giving the shots. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout April 25, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Sanders and Warren Call on Biden to Reverse Trump-Era Vaccine Apartheid Biden is under intense pressure to choose people over pharmaceutical profits as COVID outbreaks continue globally. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout April 24, 2021 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Prioritizing Incarcerated People for Vaccine Quickly Reduced COVID in IL Prisons The state has vaccinated 69 percent of the people in prison. However, most guards are not required to get vaccinated. By Brian Dolinar , Truthout April 24, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health The WTO Stopped Millions of People From Receiving a COVID-19 Vaccine The World Trade Organization’s most powerful members quashed a proposal to waive vaccine patents for poorer countries. By Rachel Carle , Truthout April 19, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Communities Hardest Hit by COVID Are Also Harmed Most by Standardized Testing Standardized testing under pandemic conditions will only magnify the inequities the tests were designed to perpetuate. By Jitu Brown & Beth Glenn , Truthout April 13, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health Rich Countries Are Using Vaccines as a Power Play — and Everyone Could Suffer The U.S., U.K., EU and Israel are hoarding vaccines. To beat COVID, we need true global cooperation instead. By Sasha Abramsky , Truthout March 31, 2021 Truthout
News | Immigration Complexities at the Border Are Lost as Media, GOP Paint Situation as a “Surge” Still, advocates say Biden must fundamentally change how agencies process unaccompanied kids on the border. By Candice Bernd , Truthout March 26, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Many Agricultural Workers Still Can’t Get COVID Vaccine as Growing Season Begins Exclusion from vaccine eligibility is emblematic of how farmworkers, many of them migrants, are treated in general. By Leanna First-Arai , Truthout March 16, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Community Health Centers Are Fueling Vaccine Equity. The Relief Bill Funds Them. Data shows that 54 percent of those who received their vaccines at a community health center were people of color. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout March 12, 2021 Truthout