All Views Articles for 2020-04-30

Thursday, April 30, 2020
A comprehensive policy solution would be to extend Medicare and Medicaid to all those suffering job losses during the pandemic period, with the federal government funding this expansion.(Photo: NNU/flickr/cc) Josh Bivens, Ben Zipperer
12.7 Million Workers Have Likely Lost Employer-Provided Health Insurance Since the Coronavirus Shock Began
The linkage between specific jobs and the availability of health insurance is a prime source of inefficiency and inequity in the U.S. health system.
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Then US Vice President Joe Biden (L) smiles with former labor secretary Tom Perez, currently the chair of Democratic National Committee, as he arrives to address the Apprenticeship Summit at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 8, 2015. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images) Norman Solomon
Joe Biden Needs an Intervention: An Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez
Right now, Biden is idling in the cockpit of a political aircraft with one wing.
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In erasing both the Green New Deal, and the Sunrise Movement and its diverse group of energized young people across American, Moore and company vilify climate leaders and remedies, boosting population control, and chooses consumerism over systemic change. (Photo: Screenshot) Alison Rose Levy
What’s Michael Moore’s Actual Agenda?
In place of highlighting the Green New Deal as the Mother Lode option, the film offers no options to the climate deadlock.
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The ideology of capitalism, writes Eskow, "openly places profit above human life. Its values are a plague on the world economy, and its global economic dominance is the vector that spread COVID-19 from the wet markets of China to the free markets of the United States." (Photo: Getty Images) Richard Eskow
It's Not a "Chinese Virus." The Correct Name Is "The Capitalism Virus"
The novel coronavirus is new, but greed is an ancient disease.
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The U.S. military cannot fight a pandemic. It is not a war, it's a public health crisis. And this isn't the only threat that has a global scope. Our federal budget priorities need to reflect that reality by investing in the agencies and programs that can actually help keep us healthy and safe. (Image: ACLU) Tori Bateman
As Global Military Spending Hits Nearly $2 Trillion, These Weapons Are Useless Against Biggest Threats We Face
As the leading military spender, the U.S. has an important leadership role to play in transitioning the world away from military spending and towards spending public funds on things that actually build more resilient communities.
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The prison system doesn’t work. (Photo: Derek Goulet/cc/flickr) Robert C. Koehler
A United World Must Break Out of Prison
Because few countries are investing in different—more complex—forms of social safety, the prison system is growing globally to a serious level of insanity.
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The latest unemployment numbers represent more than one in six workers out of work, and over five times the worst period of the Great Recession. (Photo: Getty) Heidi Shierholz
With Unprecedented 28 Million Unemployment Claims in 6 Weeks, Congress Must Act!
The relief and recovery packages passed so far are not big enough to deal with the scale of this crisis, and more aid is crucial.
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Still, historically speaking, killing Afghans or Iraqis or Syrians or Yemenis or Somalis has always been one thing, but Americans? That’s another story entirely, no? (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Tom Engelhardt
The Killer-in-Chief
In Covid-19 America, we are all now potential Suleimanis.
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President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Grand Foyer at the White House on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Robert Reich
For Trump, Covid-19 Is Perfect Cover to Seize More Power, Increase Reelection Chances
It doesn't matter that this is a global pandemic. Abusing his power for personal gain is Trumps MO.
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