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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
American Workers Have Been Given a Raw Deal Throughout the Trump Era -
Although Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that American workers are “thriving” during his presidency, this contention rings hollow. The mishandled coronavirus pandemic, of course, has created levels of unemployment, hunger, and misery in the United States not seen since the Great Depression. But even in the years before the pandemic, when Trump claimed he had More
Source: American Workers Have Been Given a Raw Deal Throughout the Trump Era - CounterPunch.org
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
For the last 70 years, American transportation planners have been using the same model to decide what to build. There’s just one problem: it’s often wrong.
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America defeated: How COVID-19 humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation
As the world passes a grim milestone of 20 million coronavirus cases, we look at how the pandemic humbled and humiliated the world’s most powerful country. Over a quarter of the confirmed infections and deaths have been in the United States, which has less than 5% of the world’s population. Ed Yong,
Source: America defeated: How COVID-19 humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation – Alternet.org
How the American oligarchy profited on death
The United States set two milestones on Wednesday: 1,503 people died from COVID-19, and the S&P 500 stock index reached a new high.
Source: How the American oligarchy profited on death - World Socialist Web Site
American Nervous Breakdown: Super-Spreader Trump and His Deranged Cult Infect Us All with their Toxic Lunacy
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) - While the plague rages, the economy crashes, and millions of jobless Americans just lost …
What the Nazis Learned From America’s Indian Removal
It may seem hard for some to imagine two more disparate subjects than the U.S. removal of Native American peoples from Indian territory in the nation’s Southeast during the 1830s and the Nazi liquidation of Europe’s Jews more than a hundred years later.
Source: What the Nazis Learned From America’s Indian Removal | Portside
Could America’s Covid and Race Crises Weaken the Union the way Chernobyl Broke up the USSR?
Rochester, NY (Special to Informed Comment) - An unforeseen health disaster with rapidly propagating domestic and international consequences strikes a …
Source: Could America’s Covid and Race Crises Weaken the Union the way Chernobyl Broke up the USSR?
