A new coalition of independent concert venues from across the country has issued a letter to Congress asking legislators for further assistance to cushion the blow they’ve faced as live music has shuttered in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The National Independent Venue Association, made up of more>>>
AMY GOODMAN: Members of Congress returned to Washington, D.C., Thursday and voted nearly unanimously to approve a half a trillion dollars in new COVID-19 emergency funding. The relief bill adds another $310 billion for the small business Paycheck Protection Program, just as the Small Business Administration reports some 1.6 million>>>
CHICAGO (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday announced a $19 billion relief program to help U.S. farmers cope with the impact of the coronavirus, including $16 billion in direct payments to producers and mass purchases of meat, dairy, vegetables and other products. The U.S. Agriculture Department is partnering with>>>
Reality of American capitalism exposed: Millions line up for food aid as pandemic spreads 13 April 2020 “… in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”—John Steinbeck,>>>
When I was actually nine years aged and could not drop off to sleep in the evening promptly, I would usually locate on my own finalizing my eyes and viewing on my own alone inside a tiny, virtually vacant hut along with just a small singular bed that is actually>>>
A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in under a week. University College London engineers worked with clinicians at UCLH and Mercedes Formula One to build the device, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator. Continuous Positive Airway>>>
Recent week has actually seen a mass shutdown of film cinemas throughout the country, specifically in urban areas like Los Angeles as well as New York where moviegoing neighborhoods are actually powerful and also with lots of place choices from the repertory to the involute. Supervisor Christopher Nolan, whose film>>>
Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fired the island’s emergency management director on Saturday, after a video showing aid sitting unused in a warehouse went viral on social media. Some of the aid has allegedly been sitting in the warehouse since Hurricane Maria struck in 2017. “There are thousands of people>>>