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Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Will Rise During Quarantines. So Will Neglect of At-Risk...

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‘Two $1 Trillion Coins’: Rashida Tlaib Proposal Calls on US Treasury to Fund Coronavirus...

Progressives on Saturday welcomed news that Rep. Rashida Tlaib is calling on the U.S. Treasury to exercise its power to issue platinum coins to...

WATCH: U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper discusses the DoD’s coronavirus response – Source –...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper discusses the U.S. Department of Defense's COVID-19 response.

Layoffs Expected to Surge – Robert Hughes (03/24/2020)

Last week, initial claims for unemployment insurance jumped sharply for the week ending March 14, rising 70,000 to 281,000, the highest level since September 2017 and...

Coronavirus Panic: From Trillion-Dollar Paternalism to “Cash for Bunkers” – Gregory Gordon (03/24/2020)

Life in America has been reshaped dramatically in the last two weeks. The fear of the Chinese coronavirus has completely eclipsed all other news...

Coronavirus origins: genome analysis suggests two viruses may have combined – Alexandre Hassanin (03/24/2020)

Coronavirus origins: genome analysis suggests two viruses may have combined ...