The gaps between rich and poor—We watched and listened as the rich fled New York and Los Angeles for homes in the Hamptons and Sun Valley, leaving the crowded cities to the disease and health workers. We’ve been introduced to harsh low-end emergency and home care workers. Unemployment rates have soared while the stock market danced off its immediate drop and continues to dance, as the wealthy play their games.
The Color gaps—Everyone who reads or listens knows that the disease is hitting hardest among African Americans, Latinx, and American Indians. We get daily percentages comparing the black population of Georgia or Louisiana or Michigan with the always higher percentages of sick and dying.
American Indians—Who knew that the Navajo lack good water? (and that it might have something to do with fifty year-old power plant deals and coal slurries). And how many had forgotten that Indians still exist? We now get—although only occasionally—national reporters talking to us from New Mexico and Dakota reservations.
The costs of education—students, especially poorer students, on work-study are struggling, sometimes staying in dorms while attending classes online. Internships on the way to jobs are scarce. Private universities are dipping into endowments and public ones pleading for more government help. The lack of full-tuition paying foreign students hurts. The real crux of it, the decades-long disengagement of government from funding college education, shines a harsh light on current costs—and benefits—of education.
The meatpacking industry—Working conditions, and the reliance on immigrant labor—sometimes undocumented—are exposed.
Nursing Homes—Regulations; worker and patient conditions; importance of.
Child Care—Ditto.
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