“We don’t want people to panic. We don’t want people to be afraid of pets. There’s no evidence that pets are playing a role in spreading this disease to people.” Until this week, humans have ...
“It was a political rally that is going to endanger peoples’ lives, because this is precisely how COVID-19 spreads.” On Wednesday, thousands of protestors rallied on foot and by car in Lansing, Michigan’s capital to ...
“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total.” President Donald Trump alone has the power to reopen the US economy, he declared at his Monday evening briefing, according to the New ...
“The scale of the economic catastrophe is breathtaking.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In a development described as “absolutely staggering,” the U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday that 6.6 million Americans filed unemployment claims last ...
The US Congress just passed a historic $2.2 trillion stimulus last week, but it is already looking ahead to the next stage of economic relief. When lawmakers negotiated the previous relief package, they said further ...
“This is the largest financial hit that we will have ever taken in the history of our agency.” The impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been mostly represented by money lost by businesses and lives ...
“Central to Democrats’ concerns with the legislation was a $425 billion ‘slush fund’ for the Federal Reserve, which it could use to bailout businesses while also withholding the names of those companies for up to six ...