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 Vol. 084 Issue 002 (May 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 More Relevant than Ever
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LUEDERS, BILL
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EDITOR’S NOTE
MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER
M uch of this issue of The Progressive, focused on poverty, was written, edited, and even already laid out on pages as the rapid advance of COVID-19...
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The Real Epidemic Is Poverty
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II, Reverend William J. Barber
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COMMENT by THE REVEREND WILLIAM J. BARBER II THE REAL EPIDEMIC IS POVERTY
The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II is president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s...
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A Time for Heroes
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LUEDERS, BILL
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FURTHER COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS A TIME FOR HEROES
A s this issue of The Progressive goes to press, the ultimate scale of the COVID-19 pandemic remains unknown; its capacity for disruption is...
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Letters
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The Perils of Nonviolence “So the violence is real,” Bill Lueders writes in his Comment (“Let’s Prepare for the Upcoming Civil War,” February/ March issue) regarding Trump and his supporters. And...
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The Pandemic of 1918
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BLAST FROM THE PAST THE PANDEMIC OF 1918 Beginning in January 1918, an influenza pandemic sometimes dubbed “the Spanish Flu” circled the globe. It would eventually kill an estimated 675,000...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT
Geography Genius A Very Stable Genius, a new book about Donald Trump, reveals that he dismissively told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “It’s not like you’ve got China on your...
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Food Workers Face the Pandemic
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Justice, Lauren; Leanza, Emilio
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ON THE LINE by LAUREN JUSTICE AND EMILIO LEANZA
FOOD WORKERS FACE THE PANDEMIC
The luxury of working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic does not extend to emergency personnel like nurses,...
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The Direct Care Worker Crisis
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN THE DIRECT CARE WORKER CRISIS
M any of the workers I’ve employed to assist me at home say they are afraid someone is going to ask them what kind of work they...
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What Happened to the Revolution?
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REVOLUTION?
A few short months ago, neither the coronavirus pandemic nor Joe Biden’s coronation were visible on the horizon. We’re...
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Embarrassment of Riches
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SMOKING GUN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES
Some facts regarding wealth and poverty in the United...
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Our Endless War on the Poor
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PIVEN, FRANCES FOX
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From the earliest initiatives to relieve the condition of the poor in the late middle ages, the design of these programs has been dominated by the fear that even meager resources for subsistence...
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Turning Shame to Blame
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Sherwin, Wilson
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Turning Shame to Blame
Advancing the fortunes of the poor starts with a change in perspective. BY WILSON SHERWIN The last time the United States grappled with the cruelty of “poverty in the...
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Cutting the Poor a Break
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Nathanson, Rebecca
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Cutting the
Poor a Break
San Francisco pioneers a program to reduce the fees and .RIWXLEXOIITTISTPIJVSQ succeeding. BY REBECCA NATHANSON During the year she spent in the Orange County...
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Taking Choice to the Next Level
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Littlefield, Amy
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Last September, several months after Alabama lawmakers attemped to ban almost all abortions in the state, C. Melodi Stone-Spies received an urgent plea for help. A friend who is a doula was at a...
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Shelter from the Storm
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Withnall, Emily
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Shelter from the Storm Solving the housing crisis in
Missoula, Montana.
BY EMILY WITHNALL Emily Withnall is an educator and freelance It’s Chris writer living in Missoula, Montana. The...
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Vital Stats: News by the Numbers
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ONE QUESTION
ELISE GOULD Senior Economist, Economic Policy Institute Today, the U.S. tax and transfer system—largely Social Security—lifts millions of people out of poverty. While this...
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Hell No, You Can't Go
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Johnson, Sharon
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Hell No, You Can’t Go
Non-compete agreements chain even
low-wage workers to their current employers.
BY SHARON JOHNSON In July 2016, Margaret Beebe of Syracuse, New York, suffered a career...
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The Fight Against Preemption
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Covert, Bryce
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The Fight Against Preemption
Colorado beat back laws to prevent local governments from improving worker pay and conditions. BY BRYCE COVERT
Bryce Covert is an independent journalist writing...
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The High Cost of Dying
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Kuhlenbeck, Mike
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the HighCost of Dying How the funeral industrytakes advantage ofgrieving families. The grim business of laying the dead to rest, known by the gentle-sounding euphemism as the “Death Care...
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Making the Pandemic Worse
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Kelly, Kathy
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MAKING THEPANDEMIC WORSE By punishing vulnerable people,Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” is undermining efforts WR.JKW&29,' BY KATHY KELLY During the United States’ 1991 “Desert...
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The Day the Earth Moved
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Nelson, Tia
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The Day the
Earth Moved
On the .ftieth anniversary of Earth Day, environmental activism has never been more important. Tia Nelson is managing director of the Outrider Foundation, a...
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Earth Day 1970: Action for Survival
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Earth Day 1970: Action for Survival The April 1970 issue of The Progressive was devoted to the first Earth Day. Extra copies were printed and given to organizers and activists for a variety of...
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Inside Jokes
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Lieberman, Hallie
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Fred Armisen co-hosting an episode of The Inside Show with Mark Arnold. Editor’s note: This story was conceived, assigned,
“There might be a nicer ending than with you just punching him,”...
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Henry Wallace and the Fight Against American Fascism
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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BOOK EXCERPT
Henry Wallace and the Fight Against American Fascism BY JOHN NICHOLS Amid all the perfervid debate about whether Trump or Trumpism was ushering in homegrown fascism during...
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'We Need Both Equity and Rights'
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Stockwell, Norman
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INTERVIEW
‘We Need Both Equity and Rights’ Felicia Wong of the Roosevelt Institute on how to reclaim FDR’s vision for America. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL F elicia Wong is the president and chief...
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Religion and the Left
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Gunn, Erik
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BOOKS Religion and the Left BY ERIK GUNN In the effort to pass the Affordable Care Act and the subsequent court fights to get it upheld, some of the most powerful opponents were...
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The Lessons We Shouldn't Learn
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD
THE LESSONS WE SHOULDN’T LEARN
A s we roll through this global pandemic, we’re learning a lot about how disease spreads, how interconnected the globe...
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About Those 'Illegal Aliens'
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Higgins, Maeve
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MAEVE IN AMERICA by MAEVE HIGGINS
ABOUT THOSE ‘ILLEGAL ALIENS’
A s a writer, I have two daily obsessions. One is coffee, the other is language. I’m not a snob about either; I just need them...
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A Life Without Sports
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN A LIFE WITHOUT SPORTS
I n the world of sports, we are in a time without precedent and without a compass. We are lost in the woods, with no idea how to find our way...
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Getting Dark, Grace
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Moon, Kamilah Aisha
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POEMS by KAMILAH AISHA MOON
GETTING DARK
in my brain, the apertures of my heart. Doctors rarely believe black women suffer, fat people care, or that queer people matter. Even when they do,...
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The Perils of 'Small Government'
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER THE PERILS OF ‘SMALL GOVERNMENT’
S uddenly, America is a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: “Where’s the government?” These are not born-again Bernie...
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