#Sarah Jaffe, "Healing Sickness, Nursing Justice," The Nation, 2.22-3.1.2021 - "White men have gradually filtered into the field (in 2019, nearly 11 percent of registered nurses were male, up from 2.7 percent in 1970), gendered expectations continue to define the profession."
"The presumption that their [nurses'] work is 'a gift, a calling, or a sacrifice,' makes many of the skills of nursing invisible." "Some 17 percent of health care workers in the country are immigrants, and they tend to be concentrated in the spaces in the industry with fewer resources -- and likely, fewer protections."
#Siter Helen Prejean, "Just Eight Days..." The Nation, 2.22-3.1.2021. - "I wasn't at all surprised to see Donald Trump order 13 federal executions carried out before he left office."
"A Gallup poll in late 2019 found that when asked to choose between the death penalty and life without parole, just 36 percent supported death. In 2020, there were a total of seven state executions, the lowest since 1983." "Since 1973, 173 convicted death row inmates have been lucky enough to emerge from their death dungeons after the mistakes and lies that put them there were exposed. For every nine of the 532 people executed since 1973, one person has been exonerated."
"Prosecutors and state attorney generals have embraced that power in Texas, which has carried out 570 executions since the 1970s, over a third of the total; five more people are slated to die in 2021."
My Comment: I don't see life without parole as much of an improvement over the death penalty, if any, as it a lingering death sentence. There are undoubtedly some inmates so twisted inside that they can't ever be allowed to roam free in society. The other developed nations in the world tend to impose sentences that are much shorter than sentences imposed in the United States.
#Abby Vesoulie, "The crisis around the corner," TIME, March 1/March 8, 2021. - "While the unemployment rate has leveled off in recent months, more than a third of U.S. adults are still struggling to pay basic household expenses, according to a January Census Bureau survey; and 11% reported that their households didn't get enough to eat in the prior weeks. Nearly 12 million U.S. renters were expected to owe an average of almost $6,000 in late rent and utility payments per household by January, according to a December analysis by the economic research firm Moody's Analytics."
"More than 70% of properties with five or fewer rental units aren't owned by fatcats at all, according to the National Association of Realtors, but rather by people like deLatt: mom-and-pop landlords who often live nearby." "Almost half of the nearly 49 million rental units in the U.S. are owned by individuals." "Black people account for 13% of the U.S. population, but Black renters make up 35% of the evictions carried out since March [last year], despite the moratoriums , according to Princeton's Eviction Lab." "And some landlords may be put off by the bureaucratic hurdles of applying for aid -- a reality that may drive mom-pop landlords out of the rental market."
"Nationally, less than a quarter of American families who meet eligibility requirements for public-housing assistance are beneficiaries of it, according to a 2014 report from the Urban Institute."
#Alice Park, "No right answers," TIME, March 1/March 8, 2021. - "According to the CDC, up to 60% of adult Americans have chronic conditions, some of which put them at higher risk of developing COVID-19. And around 28.5 million Americans have no health insurance, making them less likely to have regular access to health care. The CDC lists 12 conditions, ranging from diabetes, to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart and kidney diseases, cancer and obesity that put people at higher risk of getting COVID-19 or having complications if' they do. Yet around 25% of the U.S. population doesn't see a doctor regularly, according to a 2020 JAMA Internal Medicine study, much less have access to a hospital or clinic." Dr. Eve Glacier says that in her health system, there are 120,000 patients over age 65 with chronic health conditions who are being prioritized over those over age 65 without health issues."
#Brittney Cooper, "An insult to an abolitionist," TIME, March 1/March 8, 2021. - "One in two Americans have lived some version of this story, because half of U.S. residents and 63% of Black people have a loved one who has done time." "Upon release, people with criminal records are greeted by over 45,000 policies that dictate where they go, with whom they may live, and how they may spend their time." "Today, there are 19,419 employment restrictions that keep people from being able to rent an apartment; 3,954 restrictions that limit their civic participation; and 1,612 that constrain their family and domestic rights."
#Amy Davidson Sorkin, "Senate Rules," The New Yorker, February 15 & 22, 2021. - "One of the topsy-turvy arguments that Trump's defenders, including Senator Lindsey Graham, are making is that the evidence that some people in the mob arrived in Washington already intent on engaging in violence exonerates the President. How, they ask, could he possibly have incited them, if they'd already decided to lynch Nancy Pelosi and others? One answer lies in the House managers' seventy-page pretrial brief , which charges Trump with 'a course of conduct aimed at subverting and obstructing the election results.' in the weeks leading up to the rally."
ADDENDUMS:
*Charlie Campbell. "Jang Hye-yeong," TIME, March 1/March 8, 2021. - "In South Korea, an average of 3.4 sexual harassment crimes are reported every hour."
*Priscilla Chan, "Brian Hooks, TIME, March 1/March 8, 2021. - "There are between 70 million and100 million people with criminal records facing extreme barriers to opportunity."
*Katie Reilly, "Jonathan Shith," TIME, March 1/March 8, 2021. - At least 30 U.S. school districts cut ties with police in 2020.
*Senator Lindsey Graham told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "look hard and see how many ballots you could throw out."
*Joe Walsh, "Rush Limbaugh," TIME, March 1/March 8, 2021. - "By so demonizing the left, Limbaugh contributed to the dangerous polarization of our politics today. And by trafficking in lies and conspiracy theories he helped ensure that a sizable segment of Americans no longer believe in basic truths. This is Limbaugh's legacy."
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