Income inequality and poverty, particularly child poverty, have cascading negative impacts on Americans’ health outcomes. That’s why the Center for Science in the Public Interest strongly endorses the Biden administration’s American Families Plan, which President Biden will make the case for tonight.
Back in the day, when I was medical resident leading the doctor’s union at San Francisco General Hospital, we understood the risk that HIV, the pandemic virus of that time, represented to health care workers.
President Trump’s executive order keeping meat plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic is a further threat to the health of the women and men who produce our food.
This is no time for half-measures. While the Senate bill provides many billions in needed relief to small business and the health care sector, as well as billions more for expanding coronavirus testing, Congress is failing to protect the most vulnerable Americans.
Eighty-four percent of consumers would prefer that grocery store employees wear masks, according to a demographically representative online survey of 1,004 Americans this past weekend commissioned by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Last night, the Senate passed H.R. 748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which provides more than $2 trillion in emergency aid for those affected by COVID-19. The Center for Science in the Public Interest applauds this bipartisan effort to address public health and economic threats during this pandemic, but much more is needed.
