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Author: Linda McCain Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1662450222 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 340
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The report was dated June 16, 2020, and read, “There are currently twenty-one million unemployed Americans but around thirty million Americans collecting unemployment benefits.” Patrice Myers stared at the information she had googled out of curiosity and tried to imagine what it would be like or feel like to be unemployed—to live every day with escalating bills, the threat of being homeless, no medical insurance, and no means of transportation. Yet as indicated by the staggering and heart-wrenching number of those unemployed, this is how millions of people were living as COVID-19 relentlessly and mercilessly claimed its victims, causing millions to be out of work and the world to yield to its destructiveness. Unbeknownst to Patrice, she, too, would soon become a victim of the deadly virus, forcing her to fight to stay afloat in the ocean of the unemployed. Patrice Myers, a thirty-two-year-old attractive woman and manager of the MaCarthy Nursing Home is a compassionate woman who loves her job and craves the daily interaction with the elderly ones she feels privileged to care for and protect. Her job affords her, being single, a modest income—an income that allows her to pay her rent, buy groceries, pay bills, and to put gas in her reliable although very much used Honda Civic. Suddenly, due to COVID-19, her life is thrown into disarray and uncertainty when the nursing home where she works is shut down and terminates her job! The deadly virus that was sweeping the globe and causing millions to be either left unemployed, furloughed, fighting for their life, or dead had now claimed her as one of its victims. Unemployed and relying on enhanced unemployment payments, part of an act passed by the 116th Congress to assist those unemployed, Patrice realized this assistance had an expiration date. July 31, 2020, was the day the enhanced unemployment benefit of an additional six hundred dollars per week was scheduled to end. She sat and listened intently to a reporter who reported on the arguments of some members of Congress who were either for or against the extension of enhanced unemployment payments. “Failed discussions, no agreement” were the words that stuck in her mind from the reporter and would significantly impact her ability to survive for the next few months that were quickly progressing toward maybe even years. She thought, Members of Congress get to have their voice heard, but what about the voices of the unemployed?
Author: Linda McCain Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1662450222 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
The report was dated June 16, 2020, and read, “There are currently twenty-one million unemployed Americans but around thirty million Americans collecting unemployment benefits.” Patrice Myers stared at the information she had googled out of curiosity and tried to imagine what it would be like or feel like to be unemployed—to live every day with escalating bills, the threat of being homeless, no medical insurance, and no means of transportation. Yet as indicated by the staggering and heart-wrenching number of those unemployed, this is how millions of people were living as COVID-19 relentlessly and mercilessly claimed its victims, causing millions to be out of work and the world to yield to its destructiveness. Unbeknownst to Patrice, she, too, would soon become a victim of the deadly virus, forcing her to fight to stay afloat in the ocean of the unemployed. Patrice Myers, a thirty-two-year-old attractive woman and manager of the MaCarthy Nursing Home is a compassionate woman who loves her job and craves the daily interaction with the elderly ones she feels privileged to care for and protect. Her job affords her, being single, a modest income—an income that allows her to pay her rent, buy groceries, pay bills, and to put gas in her reliable although very much used Honda Civic. Suddenly, due to COVID-19, her life is thrown into disarray and uncertainty when the nursing home where she works is shut down and terminates her job! The deadly virus that was sweeping the globe and causing millions to be either left unemployed, furloughed, fighting for their life, or dead had now claimed her as one of its victims. Unemployed and relying on enhanced unemployment payments, part of an act passed by the 116th Congress to assist those unemployed, Patrice realized this assistance had an expiration date. July 31, 2020, was the day the enhanced unemployment benefit of an additional six hundred dollars per week was scheduled to end. She sat and listened intently to a reporter who reported on the arguments of some members of Congress who were either for or against the extension of enhanced unemployment payments. “Failed discussions, no agreement” were the words that stuck in her mind from the reporter and would significantly impact her ability to survive for the next few months that were quickly progressing toward maybe even years. She thought, Members of Congress get to have their voice heard, but what about the voices of the unemployed?
Author: Dao X. Tran Publisher: Voice of Witness ISBN: 9781642597134 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 120
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Unheard Voices of the Pandemic reveals through first-person narratives what happened the year the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States. The seventeen stories included in this collection speak to the precarity, uncertainty, and injustice of that year, but also to bravery, solidarity, and generosity. Although the shadow cast by the COVID-19 pandemic is long, the insights gleaned through listening can last longer.
Author: Eli Saslow Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0593312791 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from feeling afraid and overwhelmed to extraordinary resilient—told through voices of people from all across America The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans to capture their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his life in New York City; a grocery store owner feeding his neighborhood for free in locked-down New Orleans; an overwhelmed coroner in Georgia; a Maryland restaurateur forced to close his family business after forty-six years; an Arizona teacher wrestling with her fears and her obligations to her students; rural citizens adamant that the entire pandemic is a hoax, and retail workers attacked for asking customers to wear masks; patients struggling to breathe and doctors desperately trying to save them. Through Saslow's masterful, empathetic interviewing, we are given a kaleidoscopic picture of a people dealing with the unimaginable. These deeply personal accounts constitute a crucial, heartbreaking record of the sweep of experiences during this troubled time, and show us America from its worst and to its resilient best.
Author: Charles Wright Mills Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 244
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This highly acclaimed study of the social sciences critiques the ascendant "schools" of sociology in this country and reassesses the tradition of classic sociological analysis.
Author: Levi S. Gibbs Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252054768 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 214
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Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly Sills Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between privileged and marginalized identities; singers’ ability to adapt to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a singer’s life and art build on one another; and technology’s ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music. Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions. Contributors: Christina D. Abreu, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Kwame Dawes, Nancy Guy, Ruth Hellier, John Lie, Treva B. Lindsey, Eric Lott, Katherine Meizel, Carol A. Muller, Natalie Sarrazin, Anthony Seeger, Carol Silverman, Andrew Simon, Jeff Todd Titon, and Elijah Wald
Author: Joelle Grogan Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000582132 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 370
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The COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies. Almost overnight, governments imposed the severest restrictions in modern times on rights and freedoms, elections, parliaments and courts. Legal and political institutions struggled to adapt, creating a catalyst for democratic decline and catastrophic increases in poverty and inequality. This handbook analyses the global pandemic response through five themes: governance and democracy; human rights; the rule of law; science, public trust and decision making; and states of emergency and exception. Containing 12 thematic commentaries and 25 chapters on countries of diverse size, wealth and experience of COVID-19, it represents the combined effort of more than 50 contributors, including leading scholars and rising voices in the fields of constitutional, international, public health, human rights and comparative law, as well as political science, and science and technology studies. Taking stock after the onset of global emergency, this book provides essential analysis for politicians, policy-makers, jurists, civil society organisations, academics, students and practitioners at both national and international level on the best, and most concerning, practices adopted in response to COVID-19 – and key insights into how states and multilateral institutions should reform, adapt and prepare for future emergencies.
Author: Tim Di Muzio Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000653919 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 291
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Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy investigates and explores how far and in what ways the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging, restructuring, and perhaps remaking aspects of the global political economy. Since the 1970s, neoliberal capitalism has been the guiding principle of global development: fiscal discipline, privatisations, deregulation, the liberalisation of trade and investment regimes, and lower corporate and wealth taxation. But, after Covid-19, will these trends continue, particularly when states are continuing to struggle with overcoming the pandemic and violating one of neoliberalism’s key principles: balanced budgets? The pandemic has exposed the fragility of the global political economy, and it can be argued that the intensification of global trade, tourism, and finance over the past 30 years has facilitated the spread of infectious diseases such as Covid-19. Therefore, economies in lockdown, jittery markets, and massive government spending have sparked interest in potentially re-evaluating certain features of the global political economy. This volume brings together leading and upcoming critical scholars in international relations and international political economy to provide novel, timely, and innovative research on how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting (and will continue to impact) the global economy in important dimensions, including state fiscal policy, monetary policy, the accumulation of debt, health and social reproduction, and the future of austerity and the fate of neoliberalism. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and experts in international relations and international political economy, as well as history, anthropology, political science, sociology, cultural studies, economics, development studies, and human geography. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author: Andrew Fisher Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262535165 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 361
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How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality. Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement. From one perspective, anti-hunger leaders have been extraordinarily effective. Food charity is embedded in American civil society, and federal food programs have remained intact while other anti-poverty programs have been eliminated or slashed. But anti-hunger advocates are missing an essential element of the problem: economic inequality driven by low wages. Reliant on corporate donations of food and money, anti-hunger organizations have failed to hold business accountable for offshoring jobs, cutting benefits, exploiting workers and rural communities, and resisting wage increases. They have become part of a “hunger industrial complex” that seems as self-perpetuating as the more famous military-industrial complex. Fisher lays out a vision that encompasses a broader definition of hunger characterized by a focus on public health, economic justice, and economic democracy. He points to the work of numerous grassroots organizations that are leading the way in these fields as models for the rest of the anti-hunger sector. It is only through approaches like these that we can hope to end hunger, not just manage it.
Author: John Peters Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774866152 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 372
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Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is essential reading for undergraduates studying the politics of inequality in Canada’s labour market, guiding students through its causes and consequences, and providing alternatives for a sustainable future. This comprehensive textbook explores how globalization, labour laws, employment standards, COVID-19, and other challenges affect Canadian workers. Written by leading experts and practitioners, it will engage students with real-world examples – and real-world reforms – to the many dimensions of inequality that Canadians face on and off the job today. Key features include chapter summaries and outlines, suggestions for further reading, and glossaries.
Author: Linda McCain
Author: Linda McCain
Author: Dao X. Tran
Author: Eli Saslow
Author: Charles Wright Mills
Author: Levi S. Gibbs
Author: Joelle Grogan
Author: Tim Di Muzio
Author: Andrew Fisher
Author: Liddell Stephen (author)
Author: John Peters