*Senators Requesting Big Oil Bailouts Received Millions in Big Oil Donations.*

Current US laws permit this, when done in an indirect way, but it is corruption just the same.

Obama's former press secretary, Jay Carney, is now an executive for Amazon. After warehouse employees went on strike, demanding protective equipment to avoid spreading Covid-19, Carney said Amazon fired the organizer because he "violated social distancing rules."

Just the day before the strike, Amazon ordered him to stay home in "quarantine" for 14 days.

Was the strike announced in advance? I expect it was. If so, I think this quarantine was arranged by Amazon's as an excuse to keep its leader away on the day of the strike.

Amazon's PR staff intended to use that to distract attention from the bad conditions it keeps imposes on its workers.

How to improve America's safety net so it catches workers knocked off their feet by recessions under today's conditions.

Remember when the government of China concealed the danger of the (not yet really understood) Covid-19? Now the US government is doing it, removing the captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt claiming that he did not try hard enough to conceal the spread of the virus on that ship.

*US facing hunger crisis as demand for food banks soars.*

We need the government to operate food banks: to buy food to distribute in them, and send national guard to run them. And make enough face masks for them.