coronavirus
Walmart, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and Craigslist cited for pandemic price gouging
March 26, 2020“These companies have an ethical obligation to stop enabling this behavior for this emergency and those in the future.”
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Education advocates block distance learning privatization in Puerto Rico
March 26, 2020Nothing replaces in-person teaching, but educators are utilizing technology to make learning accessible.
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States largely fend for themselves in race against coronavirus pandemic
March 26, 2020Illinois governor to Trump: “You should be leading a national response instead of throwing tantrums from the back seat……Get off Twitter and do your job.”
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‘Imperative to take proactive steps’ to ensure farm worker safety
March 25, 2020A just completed UFW poll of farm workers on its popular Spanish-language social media platforms showed more than 90 percent had not been advised by their employers on best practices to resist the virus or been...
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Sides agree on $2 trillion coronavirus aid bill
March 25, 2020While the measure helps workers, corporate lobbies seized the chance to insert some multibillion-dollar goodies for themselves, too, feeding off U.S. taxpayers for $20 billion more for agribusiness and a reported $17 billion for Boeing, for...
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