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COVID-19

Amazon Algorithm Is Manipulating Suppliers Into Favoring It Over Other Retailers
Amazon is strengthening its competitive position in ways that could outlast the pandemic, raising antitrust concerns.

USDA Under Fire for Allowing Millions of Pounds of Produce to Rot
This comes as food insecurity surges across the U.S.

COVID Deaths in US Will Soon Surpass Number of Americans Killed in Vietnam War
Before the weekend, known U.S. COVID deaths will surpass 58,000 -- the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War.

Incarceration Is Killing Us
Kelly Hayes talks with Alan Mills about COVID-19, prisons and making bold demands.

COVID-19 Must Radicalize Doctors: We Cannot Remain on the Political Periphery
The current health crisis makes it clear that to truly adhere to the Hippocratic oath, doctors must also be activists.

Reopening the Economy Now Will Send Us Deeper Into Hell
The threats ahead are mass immiseration and hunger on a scale unseen since 1933.

I’m Native and Disabled. The US Government Is Sacrificing My People.
Resources for Native people were limited before the pandemic. Now, they are even more so.

Trump Demands Postal Service Increase Prices Fourfold for Customers
The president is threatening to withhold future COVID-19 relief from the USPS unless it raises shipping prices.

Millions of People Will Face Stimulus Check Delays Simply Because They Are Poor
The tax preparation industry, which survives off of high fees on its customers, is getting in the way of stimulus funds.

Despite COVID-19, Trump Keeps on Gutting Protections for Workers
Plummeting labor standards and enforcement under Trump has made workplaces even more dangerous during the pandemic.