Chart of the Day: 1 Million New Unemployment Claims This Week?
Unemployment claims last week were about a quarter higher than the week before. This week they’ve already doubled and may double again when every state is counted. Justin Wolfers has the chart: This is just the start, and it’s the reason that a $1,000 check is so inadequate. We’re facing a crisis that will last…
Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers
Shawn Lynch, assistant manager of a grocery store in Brattleboro, Vermont, restocks cases of water during an overnight shift. His team worked through the night to make sure the shelves were full for the next day’s shoppers to buy supplies during the coronavirus outbreak.Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP As the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic…
Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Paula White Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Bankroll Her Church
President Donald Trump embraces Paula White, chair of the White House evangelical advisory board.Chip Somodevilla/Getty On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin warned senators that the outbreak of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and the massive recession that likely will take place might cause the unemployment rate to balloon to 20 percent. (He later…
The Coronavirus Is Making the Case for Abortion Via Telemedicine
Telemedicine—in which doctors administer medication via webcam and a remotely-controlled drawer—has become an easy target for anti-abortion legislators who try to claim it is dangerous and limits physician oversight. But the coronavirus pandemic highlights precisely why access to medication abortion through telemedicine is so crucial. And now, abortion providers and advocates are calling for states to…
How QAnon Fueled a Hoax About Oprah Being Arrested
Photo by Tom Cooper/Getty Images Seemingly out of nowhere on Tuesday night, an outlandish hoax about Oprah Winfrey getting arrested and Tom Hanks’ coronavirus diagnosis went massively viral only to be debunked by Winfrey herself—all in the period of time when many Americans were asleep. “Just got a phone call that my name is trending.…
Trump Has a New Group to Blame for the Coronavirus Crisis: Millennials
Kevin Dietsch/ZUMA After weeks of dismissing the novel coronavirus as a liberal hoax designed to undermine his reelection bid, and falsely claiming that the United States was overprepared to tackle the surge of outbreaks, President Donald Trump appears to have finally come to grips with the devastating realities of the pandemic. But that hasn’t put…