(2020-04-10). One in ten Americans set to be unemployed & things will get even worse, former Fed insider tells Boom Bust. rt.com 
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits continued to surge at unprecedented levels, bringing the total number of jobless claims to more than 16 million over three weeks. | RT's Boom Bust is joined by the former Fed insider Danielle DiMartino Booth to talk about the latest figures and the US central bank's response. | "I think we will indeed see a fourth subsequent wave, subsequent week," she says, explaining that the most populous states of the nation (including Florida, New York, California, and especially Texas) have a huge backlog of unemployment. | Booth points out that the unemployment insur…
(2020-04-10). "It's the economy stupid!" indybay.org US unemployment at the start of April 2020 is higher than at the peak of the 1929 Great Depression. Trump is to blame for the botched response to the Coronavirus that he initially called a hoax. To generate economic activity, he recently proposed raising CEO deductions for entertainment and restaurant bills. We face a collapse of the GDP, consumption, investments and tax revenues.
(2020-04-10). Social and economic catastrophe intensifies as 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment. wsws.org Emergency measures are necessary as the health crisis produced by the coronavirus pandemic develops into the greatest economic crisis in the United States since the 1930s.
(2020-04-10). India's Opposition Party Wants Narendra Modi to Arrange COVID-19 Trains For Stranded Labourers. sputniknews.com New Delhi (Sputnik): Thousands of labourers in Delhi recently flouted the 21-day lockdown announced by the prime minister on 24 March. Fearing unemployment in the days ahead, they set off for their home communities in neighbouring states on foot. While some succeeded, others have been stationed in camps.
(2020-04-09). Nearly 17 million have lost their jobs, overwhelming state unemployment agencies. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Total unemployment claims since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic have now topped 16.8 million. For the week ending April 4, an additional 6.6 million new claims were filed. New information in March exceeded 15 million, total, the federal government's Bureau of Economic Analysis said on April 9. The only reason the number did not …
(2020-04-09). "Exposing U.S. Racism in a Stark New Way": COVID-19 Kills Disproportionate Number of Black Americans. democracynow.org 
We speak with family physician and epidemiologist Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones about how the coronavirus is taking a devastating toll on black Americans, who are disproportionately dying from the virus across the country as a result of entrenched racial inequality. Black Americans are more likely to have chronic health problems and less likely to have insurance. They also make up significant numbers of frontline workers that are still going to work amid the pandemic. Jones is the former president of the American Public Health Association. Her recent piece for Newsweek magazine is headlined "Coronavirus Disease Discri…
(2020-04-09). Headlines for April 9, 2020. democracynow.org Coronavirus Pandemic Could Push 600 Million More People into Poverty, New York Reports Record 779 Coronavirus Deaths in Just 24 Hours, General Motors to Deliver 30,000 Ventilators, with Most Arriving Long After Projected COVID-19 Peak, Kansas to Allow Crowded Church Services as L.A. Expands Order on Face Coverings, California Fast-Food Workers Strike, Demanding Hazard Pay and Protections Against COVID-19, Trump Touts Unproven Treatments of Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc for COVID-19, World Health Organization Head: "Please Don't Politicize This Virus", Researchers Find Coronavirus Arrived in New York from Europe in…
(2020-04-09). Covid-19 to plunge half a billion people into poverty. truepublica.org.uk New research published by UNU-WIDER today warns that the economic fallout from the global pandemic could increase global poverty by as much as half a billion people, or 8% of the total human population. This would be the first time that poverty has increased globally in thirty years, since 1990. The authors of the UNU-WIDER study — Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez …
(2020-04-09). COVID-19 Could Plunge Half a Billion People Into Poverty: Oxfam. telesurenglish.net As the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across the world, with over 1.5 million reported cases and over 95,000 deaths, the international organization Oxfam warned Thursday that the economic fallout could push around half a billion people into poverty. | RELATED: | "The estimates show that, regardless of the scenario, global poverty could increase for the first time since 1990," a recent report said, ad…
(2020-04-09). Trump May Push for New Task Force to Reopen Economy, Against Americans' Wishes. truthout.org Jobless claims across the country have jumped by 6.6 million over the past week, amounting to more than 16 million Americans who have now filed unemployment claims in the past three weeks, due to the economic impact of the coronavirus on the nation. | In total, the unemployment rate has
(2020-04-09). People With Disabilities Face Greater Risk of Economic Devastation From COVID-19. truthout.org The unprecedented COVID-19 crisis is wreaking havoc on the health and economic lives of billions of people across the world. In the U.S., massive layoffs and unemployment levels eclipsing the Great Depression are expected. As workers lose jobs, unemployment filings are going through the roof. As of April 7, about
(2020-04-09). 16.8m Out of Work in US, 'Uncharted Territory' Experts Warn. telesurenglish.net The United States Department of Labor announced Thursday that 6.6 million more people filed unemployment claims last week, bringing the three-week total to roughly 16.8 million, meaning about 10 percent of the nation's workforce has become jobless during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | "Unprecedented. Unheard of. Uncharted territory. These are phrases I use all the time now but they are deeply inadequate…
(2020-04-09). The Impact of COVID-19 Is All Down to Inequality. commondreams.org A street vendor's cart in lower Manhattan, March 18, 2020. (Photo: Albin Lohr-Jones/PA.) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/pa-51902935.max-760×504.jpg …
(2020-04-09). Without Urgent Aid, Warns Oxfam, Coronavirus Could Throw Half a Billion People Into Poverty Worldwide. commondreams.org "We can only beat this virus through coming together as one…Rich country governments must massively upscale their help." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1207650067_1.jpg …
(2020-04-09). US Unemployment Claims During Coronavirus Pandemic Soar to 'Truly Shocking' 16.8 Million. commondreams.org In a development described as "absolutely staggering," the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed unemployment claims last week, bringing the three-week total to roughly 16.8 million—meaning about 10% of the nation's workforce has become jobless during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/closed_1_0.jpg …
(2020-04-08). Billionaire "Job Creators" and the Keyboard Revolutionaries Who Enable Their Candidates. dissidentvoice.org Capitalism's "invisible hand" gives us the middle finger with ever more contempt these days. With the national unemployment rate soaring to Depression-era levels and beyond, the self-proclaimed "job creators" of our glorious free-market paradise are now drowning in gluttonous excess from sucking the tit of the "Nanny State" they allegedly abhor. While workers are prohibited …
(2020-04-07). Deaths of Inequality: AOC on Black and Latinx Communities at Epicenter of Epicenter of the Pandemic. democracynow.org 
As COVID-19 deaths spike in African-American and immigrant communities, almost a third of New York City's infections are in Queens, one of the most diverse places in the world, and many in the hardest-hit neighborhoods are undocumented and working-class. We speak with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the neighborhoods at the epicenter of the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, about how the Trump administration's response to the pandemic is causing "deaths of incompetence," "deaths of science denial" and "deaths of inequality."
(2020-04-06). Headlines for April 6, 2020. democracynow.org Coronavirus Cases Surge in U.S., Surgeon General Warns of "Pearl Harbor Moment" | , Gov. Cuomo Slashes Medicaid as New York Struggles to Get Handle on COVID-19 Cases | , Black Communities Hit Disproportionately Hard by Coronavirus , Coronavirus Cases Appear to Level Off in Parts of Europe, But Death Tolls Remain High | , Boris Johnson Hospitalized for Acute Coronavirus Symptoms | , Japan's Shinzo Abe to Declare Emergency; Filipino Police Kills Man Who Flouted Coronavirus Rules, Low-Paid Garment Workers in Bangladesh Face Mass Unemployment , Former Prime Ministers of Somalia and Libya Die from COVID-19, Complaint…
(2020-04-03). 'These Devices Making the Super-Wealthy Super-Wealthier Will Have to Come Apart' – CounterSpin interview with David Cay Johnston on the 2008 bailout. fair.org 
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(2020-04-02). "Social Distancing Is a Privilege": Pandemic Highlights India's Class Divide as 1.3 Billion Lock Down. democracynow.org 
In India, 1.3 billion people have been locked down for more than a week to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The country reports nearly 2,000 cases and at least 50 deaths. Millions living in poverty and migrant workers were stranded far from home when the lockdown was announced, and some have reportedly died making the perilous journey home. More than 80% of India's workforce is informal, with most living off daily wages often less than $2 or $3 a day — wages they cannot earn under the present curfew — and more than 4 million Indians are homeless. We speak with Indian journalist Rana Ayyub, a contri…
(2020-03-30). The Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery played key role in launching SPLC's legal battle against Ku Klux Klan. splcenter.org The Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, who died on Friday at 98 years old, was a longtime friend of the Southern Poverty Law Center and played a leading role in the SPLC's first lawsuit against the Ku Klux Klan in 1980.