Many families struggling with paying for food and housing face the cutoff of remaining COVID-19 relief funds by the end of the year. Long gone is the $600 federal benefit to boost weekly unemployment benefits. According to the Century Foundation, 12 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits on December 26 when two major pandemic programs expire. Another 4.4 million will have already exhausted these benefits before they expire.
By Kate Randall
November 23, 2020 “Information Clearing House” – “WSWS” – As this week’s Thanksgiving holiday approaches, a social catastrophe is unfolding across America on a scale not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
As of Sunday, there were more than 12.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US and nearly 257,000 deaths. The past week has seen an average of more than 170,000 cases per day, an increase of 59 percent from the average two weeks earlier.
Hospitals are being overrun by the surge of cases. Thousands of nurses at hospitals across the country are coming down with the virus, leaving hospitals short-staffed and placing patient care in extreme danger. In El Paso, Texas, a unit of 36 National Guard troops has been mobilized to work through a backlog of close to 240 bodies, victims of COVID-19, at the county morgue…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Heartbreaking reality…
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Only in America can serial killers like: Kyle Rittenhouse , the affluenza killer who ran down and murdered 5 people maimed others, Robert Durst and others go free while 3 million rot in prisons and jails and trump gleefully executes a few poor people on death row a week
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Too true, Hallie. From its outset, the US injustice system was designed to protect the interests of the wealthy elite.
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From outside the US, Trace, it looks like the sudden complete third worldization of the US working class.
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