April 2020

April 24, 2020

Sidney's Picks: Chloroquine, Cruises, and Coronavirus

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The Best of the Week’s News

The inside scoop on Trump’s crackpot plan to flood the nation will millions of dosesof hydroxychloroquine, an unproven treatment for Covid-19 that seems to kill patients. (Vanity Fair, AP)
21% of all cruise ships had at least one case of coronavirus, and 65 passengers died, according to a new analysis. (Miami Herald)
NewsGuild’s Nastaran Mohit: Organizing in a pandemic (Teen Vogue)
Hillman board member Danny Glover, the son of two union postal workers, warns that black families would be hardest-hit by the privatization of the Post Office. (USA Today)
From farm workers to call center reps–interviews with dozens of frontline workers (Dissent)

April 17, 2020

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The Best of the Week’s News:

Dispatch from a temp worker who loads the remains of coronavirus patients into refrigerated trucks.
Costco has a reputation as a good employer, but workers feel betrayed by the company’s handling of coronavirus.
During a pandemic, everything’s an emergency and nothing is: How coronavirus is hurting every critically ill patient.
More than 900 workers at New York City’s public hospitals test positive for Covid-19.
Chicken processing workers fear mass outbreaks of coronavirus.
Smithfield Foods bribed their employees to work sick with a $500 “responsibility bonus,” now their plant is at the center of a Covid-19 outbreak.

April 10, 2020

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The Best of the Week’s News:

The f irst U.S. ER doctor to die of Covid-19 was a champion of the disenfranchised.
What it’s like to work at a landfill during a pandemic.
The worst people in the world are luring Instacart delivery workers with huge tips and then yanking the tips back when the groceries arrive.
Unicor, the federal prison labor program, kept many inmate workers on the job without PPE well into March and still has some sewing masks.
The Covid Crash caused cutbacks at over 1000 media outlets and a group of journalists created The Furlough Fund to support each other.

April 3, 2020

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The Best of the Week’s News

COVID-19 forces Florida Republicans to admit the awful truth: Scott sabotaged the UI system to keep jobless claims low
New York City will provide all New Yorkers with three free meals a day, starting today.
Sanitation workers’ lives matter
Jared Kushner is going to get us all killed.
Hillman Prize-winner Adam Serwer on the GOP learning to love economic stimulus.