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Bending PPE rules spells death for health care workers and families

May 20, 2020 By Roberta Wood

If he could have worn a fresh N95 mask for every procedure as mandated by the CDC, would surgical technologist Juan Martínez still be alive today?

The Congressional Progressive Caucus wants guaranteed income in stimulus bill

May 14, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Led by Jayapal and Pocan, they want Pelosi’s bill to include guaranteed income and health care for all workers.

We call frontline workers ‘heroes,’ but do we value them like heroes?

May 13, 2020 By Tim Libretti

When we collectively come out on the other side of this pandemic, will we have learned and changed anything at all?

COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada 0. Why?

May 12, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Hundreds of nurses from both countries listen in on a call arranged by their union that lays the blame for the deaths in the U.S. at the feet of the health care system.

Crime doesn’t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic

May 12, 2020 By Robin McDowell And Margie Mason

As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.