#Ian Bremmer, "A new global depression is coming," TIME, August 17/24, 2020.
"This coronavirus has ravaged every major economy in the world. Its impact is felt everywhere. "[Middle] income and developing countries are especially vulnerable, but the debt burdens and likelihood of defaults will pressure the entire global financial system." "In short, there will no sustaining recovery until the virus is fully contained."
"The Congressional Budget Office has warned that the unemployment rate will remain stubbornly high for the next decade, and economic output will remain depressed for years unless changes are made to the way government taxes and spends."
Dr. Ashesh K. Jha, "A better way to test," TIME, August 17/24, 2020.
"As coronavirus cases surge around the country, laboratories are facing crippling shortages of key supplies and growing backlog of staples. In many states it can take 10 to 15 days to get test results -- rendering these tests useless as a tool to prevent transmission and bring the pandemic under control."
"CDC analyses suggest that we are testing too few people. By putting a premium on the accuracy of tests, we fail to test a majority of people with COVID-19, and these built-in delays actually undermined our ability to identify cases in a timely manner." "If everyone took a pre-antigen test today, we would still identify 50% of all current infections now, because we are testing so few people." "Speed matters much more than test sensitivity in controlling a pandemic."
#Many authors, "How to Pandemic-Proof America," Mother Jones, September/October 2020.
"We may be ready for Ebola, but we're not ready for avian influenza, which is the equivalent of what we're seeing with COVID right now. We need greater surge capacity at every level. And it's the area where we invest the least, so would put a lot more money into the scientific enterprise."
"State health departments are all independent of each other, and independent of the feds. It's an extraordinary crazy quit of organizations." "Last year, health care officials in Pennsylvania threw rural hospitals a lifeline: Instead of unpredictable reimbursements, insurers and the federal government give hospitals a regular 'global budget.' In return, hospitals agree to work to improve care, such as increasing access to primary care and helping patients manage chronic conditions."
"Early in the pandemic, courts scrambled to release jail inmates, most them were locked up, only because they couldn't make bail. Research suggests that the spread of the coronavirus could have been slowed down if they were never locked up at all."
#Samantha Michaels, "Whose Street?" Mother Jones, September/October 2020.
"The program, called Operation Ceasefire, draws on data to identify people wo are at the highest risk of shooting someone or being shot themselves." "Nationally, murder rates have fallen since their last peak in the 1990s, and are now back to their 1965 levels. But the progress has been uneven. For Black men between the ages of 15 and 25 in the United States, homicides, mostly by gunfire, is still the leading cause of death by far, killing more of them than the next nine top causes of death combined."
"In 2015, half of all homicides in the United States took place in just 127 cities and towns; more than a quarter were in neighborhoods representing only 1.5 percent of the total population, according to a 2017 report by 'The Guardian.' "
"For years, the police who helped identify the participants, believed that 10,000 people, disproportionally teens, drove homicides in Oakland." "Just 400 men were responsible for the majority of the city's homicides, the researches found, and their average age was 28 or 29.
"A 2015 analysis by 'Mother Jones' and researcher Ted Miller revealed that nationally, each gun death averages about $6 million in total costs."
The Ceasefire's coaching program's main goal is to spend time with the participants and build trust, even with men who were still involved with a street group or didn't want a job. "Fewer than 1 percent of the Ceasefire participants who did the coaching program were rearrested for shootings in 2018." "After decades of widespread sweeps for drugs and guns in Black and Brown neighborhoods, the Oakland Police Department scaled back arrests by 55 percent between 2006 and 2015." "Ceasefire was found to be directly associated with a 32 reduction in gun homicides." "Another study showed that its police made arrests in 80 percent of homicides with white victims, but only 40 percent with Black victims, a pattern that exists nationally."
#Daniel Bessner, "House of Cards," The Nation, September 21/28, 2020.
"State research universities are preparing to decrease services in light of anticipated budget shortfalls as small liberal arts colleges teeter on the brink of financial ruin." "The situation is likely to get worse as students refuse to shell out tens of thousands of dollars to take subpar online courses while sitting in their living rooms. Without exaggeration, American higher education may be on the verge of a total breakdown." "The house of cards, built on exploitation, anti-intellectualism, and massive debt, was doomed to collapse."
"Throughout the United States, there is a dawning awareness that saving the university requires cross-occupation solidarity, in which people working at various jobs in the academy come together to demand transformation."
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