Economy / Business - OtherWords

Remembering Our Empathy

Stay at home orders are necessary. But we need to remember that they can be economically, or emotionally, difficult to follow.

Vast private foundations are sitting on over $1 trillion in assets. In this crisis, we need to get that money to frontline nonprofits.

Without rent and mortgage relief, millions of families and smaller landlords could lose their homes and businesses.

Free testing? Less pollution? What’s next?!

The forces of greed shoved working families to the edge — all it took was a virus to push them over.

Meatpackers are contracting COVID-19 and dying. Trump is requiring them to work — and shielding their employers from liability.

No family should have to worry about a hospital taking them to court when their loved one is connected to a ventilator.

Most of the agency’s deficits are phony paper losses, manufactured by Congress at the behest of corporate privatizers.

I used to have a prescription for medical cannabis to treat migraines, but now I live in a prohibition state. It’s going to a long quarantine.

Beyond performing essential labor, we are humans — and, in a pandemic, that should be enough to deserve help.