Новости за 12.03.2020

In Detroit earlier this week, city officials announced a moratorium on new water shutoffs. They are also returning service to customers behind on their bills, and locking in water fees at $25 a month for the duration of the current public health crisis. In New York State, Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers are working on a paid sick leave policy that would compensate quarantined employees for their missed time at work. In San Diego, the state’s Health and Human Services Agency set up handwashing... Читать дальше...

For Bernie Sanders’s supporters, one source of frustration in the recent round of primaries is the peculiar fact that his campaign’s agenda seems to be doing better than the candidate himself. On Tuesday, Bernie lost the Mississippi primary by over 65 points; yet, as NBC News reported on the same night, six in 10 Mississippi voters said they supported replacing private health care with a single-payer system.

The Bernie Sanders campaign has regularly complained about the “liberal” media, particularly MSNBC, the country’s leftmost cable news outlet. Faiz Shakir, Sanders’s campaign manager, told Vanity Fair last month that the network’s anchors and guests are “constantly undermining the Bernie Sanders campaign” by fearmongering about his policies and comparing his movement to, among other things, the rise of Nazi Germany. Even Fox News was “more fair,” according to Shakir. “Fox is often yelling about Bernie Sanders’s socialism... Читать дальше...

The World Health Organization declared on Wednesday that the coronavirus outbreak had become a pandemic, urging governments to take further steps to stem the now-worldwide spread of the virus. “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock, and we are deeply concerned, both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” director-general Tedros Adhanom said.

For most Democratic politicians, the future is a bright investment opportunity. Increasing funding for education is “investing in our future.” Addressing climate change does not mean reining in the fossil fuel industry, but investing in a “clean energy future.” And by investing in “innovation,” a word practically synonymous with “the future” in both business and politics, you prepare yourself to reap the rewards of whatever technological breakthroughs tomorrow might bring.