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Four Reasons to Ditch the Draft

As each day presents new personal challenges for all of us during this unprecedented global health crisis, LifeNet4Families doors remain open for those in our community experiencing hunger, homelessness and poverty.

Don’t Forget Rural Communities As COVID-19 Peaks

The race card can’t explain Black COVID-19 deaths

masks, inefficient sanitizing of workspaces, and failure by some employers to honor the social distancing as re-commended by the CDC to protect themselves from contracting the coronavirus.

     Starting the week of 4-20-2020, President Trump has given authorization to begin to open the states in America, who were shut down as a result of the coronavirus – Covid-19. President Trump and his corona-virus task force have announced a plan, which will be formally named, “Opening Up America Again.” These new federal guidelines are extremely short on details and specifics and no coordinated national strategic plan would be implemented.

Bailout the People

     For America’s unbanked households, a stimulus check may have been needed April 1st instead of sometime in the future. According to the FDIC’s most current national report on the nation’s unbanked, approximately 24.2 million households comprised of 48.9 million adults do not have a financial relationship with a bank.

The Cat response (w/photo)

  “The chaotic culture of the Trump White House contributed to the crisis. A lack of planning and a failure to execute, combined with the president’s focus on the news cycle and his preference for following his gut rather than the data cost time, and perhaps lives,” says Eric Lipton of the NY Times. The 1918 pandemic lasted 1 year and there were 3 different waves where the majority of people died.