health and safety
Under pressure, feds reverse decision to close coronavirus testing sites
April 10, 2020Under pressure from Pennsylvania lawmakers and a report on National Public Radio, the GOP Trump government’s Health and Human Services Department abruptly reversed a ruling to cut off dollars to some 41 community coronavirus testing sites...
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Essential grocery workers go to work afraid every day
April 6, 2020Every day, grocery workers are restocking toilet paper, eggs, produce and canned goods as fast as the items fly off the shelves.
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They’re putting our lives at risk to build stadiums and condos?
April 3, 2020While the CEOs shelter safe and sound in their homes, piling up their profits, the workers are on the construction sites risking sickness and death at the hands of the coronavirus.
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Rail workers blast Trump use of coronavirus to trash safety rules, inspections
April 3, 2020“We cannot sit back and let the carriers and the government make us pay the price for their criminal lack of foresight."
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Evidence mounts that Trump is squashing federal response to coronavirus
March 31, 2020Secret recording made at his meeting with governors exposes the president’s intention to follow the right-wing playbook of a minimal role for the federal government.
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