[COVID-19\Suspension of State Debt Collection]
Attorney General James: “We are renewing the suspension of state student and medical debt collection referred to my office for a second time to help ease the burden on New Yorkers.”
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COVID-19
NY GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES NEW FINDINGS ON CHILDREN AND COVID-19
[COVID-19 & Children]
Cuomo: “When we first started with this virus, we were told children are not affected, which was a great sigh of relief. But now we’re finding out that may not be 100 percent accurate.”
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COVID-19 WORSENS PLIGHT OF DISPLACED, ASYLUM-SEEKERS AND REFUGEES
[COVID-19\Displaced Peoples]
Migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers account for nearly one in every 100 people alive today…What does this pandemic mean for them, and what does it reveal about how “us” and “them” are defined in times of crisis, isolation, and unity?
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COVID-19 “RACIALIZED” TO OPPRESS AND FURTHER POLICE BLACK PEOPLE SAYS VETERAN JOURNALIST
[Democracy Now!\Jill Nelson\NYPD\Racial Policing]
Nelson: “I frankly feel that COVID-19 has been racialized, really, and it’s now being used as a way to further oppress people of color. It’s just absolutely wrong.”
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ERIC GARNER, EARTH DAY AND THE EPA AT 50
[Eric Garner, Earth Day and the EPA at 50]
Mabson: “To commemorate the bond between Earth Day now 50 and Eric Garner’s life, do what communities did when he died. Communities across the country came together using “I can’t breathe” as the protest cry.”
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FREE PRESS ACTION RELEASES PLAN TO SAVE LOCAL JOURNALISM AND CREATE SUSTAINABLE MEDIA
[Free Press Action\Local Journalism\Sustainable Media]
The proposal…includes billions in direct and indirect subsidies to journalists, as well as increases in federal support for public-media institutions that would protect a significant number of local reporting jobs.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE DOCTOR: TO BEAT COVID-19 WE NEED NEW ANTIBIOTICS
[COVID-19\Antibiotics]
Dr. Clancy: “Without antibiotics to treat secondary infections, pandemics become far more deadly. Consider the Spanish flu, which killed 50 million people worldwide and took place before antibiotics were invented.”
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TRUMP’S BOTCHED COVID-19 RESPONSE AND MISMANAGEMENT FURTHER ENDANGERS AMERICANS
[COVID-19\Trump Incompetence]
Dr. Tom Hastings: “I have never witnessed any US president botch anything so disastrous as Trump has botched the response to COVID-19. I didn’t know so many mistakes were even possible and he just won’t stop.”
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