Slave Nation

The single most deadly and longstanding precondition promoting and sustaining a potentially lethal virus is poverty.

by Rich Herschlag

In 2018 the Federal Reserve reported that 40 percent of American families did not have available cash for a $400 emergency expense. In 2020 these same families and more do not have, say, $4,000 available for a shelter-in-place emergency during a pandemic. After much obfuscation followed by much haggling, the federal government is now se…