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• Thier: The Global South Faces a ‘Vaccine Apartheid’

  Just 10 nations have administered 75% of the vaccines worldwide. Countries like South Africa are being left behind
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  Camp: It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution

  No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires
• Saunders: To Honor Black History, Fund Our Front-Line Heroes

  Over the last year, some 1.3 million public service jobs, many of them held by African Americans — including nurses, teachers, EMTs and sanitation workers — have evaporated because of holes the pandemic blew open in state and local budgets
• First-Arai: Biden Could Hire Jobless Oil and Gas Workers to Plug Abandoned Oil Wells

  There are 3.2 million abandoned oil and gas wells across U.S. land and waters, responsible for emitting 281 kilotons of methane in 2018 — or the equivalent of burning through 16 million barrels of crude oil
• Hollar: What Is ‘Moderate’ About Opposing a Minimum Wage Backed by 3/5ths of Voters?

  In corporate media, it seems, the minority view that opposes a living wage can also be the “moderate” one—so long as it’s “pragmatically” courting business interests
• Scher: Pandemic May Have Left Over 250 Million People With Acute Food Shortages in 2020

  As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries
• Entralgo: Covid-19 Caregivers Need Care Too

  A new documentary exposes the need for a federal lifeline for child care providers and working mothers
• Fassler: 10 Largest US Cities Will Spend More on Police Than Public Health This Year

  Combined, these 10 cities’ policing budgets are 3.6 times greater than public health department budgets
• Collins: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers

  Another update on U.S. unemployment and billionaire wealth during the pandemic emergency
• Queally: “An Unelected Parliamentarian Does Not Get to Deprive 32 Million Americans the Raise They Deserve.”

  "archaic and undemocratic rules of the Senate" are now standing in the way of ending "starvation wages in this country."
• Brooks: Joe Biden Can Cancel All Student Debt. He Just Won’t

  We don’t like the word forgiveness because we don’t think student debtors did anything wrong. Your generation didn’t have to borrow like this. We’re just asking for parity
• Sandor: Why planning is political

  Andrea Sandor explores how community-led developments are putting democracy at the heart of the planning process
• Paul: Tanden’s Role in Killing a Union Website Should Not Be Forgotten

  While it might be Republican hypocrisy that ultimately sinks Tanden, supporters of workers rights may breathe a sigh of relief to see her removed from the budget-making process
• De Gama: 100+ Countries Push to Loosen WTO Rules on Vaccine Patents

  Why Is the U.S. Still Blocking the Way?
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  Soren: Small Towns and Rural Communities Need Transit, Too

  Millions of rural Americans don’t have a car. With the pandemic battering transit agencies, they’re being totally isolated
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  Gandikota-Nellutla: The G20 must deliver justice and drop the debt

  As the G20 meet, the Progressive International’s Debt Justice group calls for a radical break with extraction and austerity — and proposes a new system in its place
• Anderson: Danny Glover: Why I’m in Alabama with Amazon Workers

  The Hollywood actor is mobilizing support for warehouse workers who are making their mark on the long history of southern organizing
• Perez: Democrats Are Subsidizing Health Insurance Predators

  Democrats want to pay billions to put Americans on expensive corporate health insurance plans rather than expand Medicare or create a public option. It’s a gift to a criminal private insurance industry that needs to be completely abolished
• Koeppel: In What Universe Is a $15 Wage “Too High”? Joe Manchin’s

  Economic justice organizers may soon triumph in their fight for a $15 minimum wage
• Rock: How Wall Street Killed Grandma

  20,000 nursing home residents died from 2004 to 2016 because they lived in nursing homes run by private equity firms, according to updated data