( Tomdispatch.com ) – Fifty-four years ago, standing at the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther …
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The American death spiral
American Inequality Was Massive Before the Pandemic. It’s Gotten Far, Far Worse During It.
The pandemic has been taking the existing injustices of capitalism and exaggerating them to the point of cartoonishness. A case in point is a recent study that finds Wall Street bonuses have grown by more than 1,200% since the 1980s — while the federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised in over a decade.
Source: American Inequality Was Massive Before the Pandemic. It’s Gotten Far, Far Worse During It.
Financial experts pinpoint how Biden’s relief plan could contribute to the reshaping of American families
Americans are Suffering: Looking Beyond Covid-19
Nearly one year ago, in April 2020, Dr. Lorna Breen, the ER medical director at New York Presbyterian Allen Hospital, committed suicide. She had earlier contracted Covid-19 while treating patient. According to her father, “She was — in every way — in the trenches of this war, fighting the effects of this COVID virus that she contracted herself,” he said. “She went home and stayed for a week-and-a-half before she felt obligated to go back to the trenches and help, so that’s what she did.” She committed suicide shortly thereafter. More
Source: Americans are Suffering: Looking Beyond Covid-19 – CounterPunch.org
America goes to war with itself
The crisis of American democracy is already here –
America has become a failed state
How to stop America’s slide toward tyranny –
Hunger in America, Especially for Children, Has “Skyrocketed” During Pandemic
THE LEVEL OF hunger in U.S. households almost tripled between 2019 and August of this year, according to an analysis of new data from the Census Bureau and the Department of Agriculture. Even more alarming, the proportion of American children who sometimes do not have enough to eat is now as much as 14 times higher than it was last year.
Source: Hunger in America, Especially for Children, Has “Skyrocketed” During Pandemic | Portside
