Rental assistance to prevent evictions is an allowable use of the $7 billion in HUD CARES Act funds
Sign in front of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in downtown Washington, DC on December 26, 2014. – WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 26 (Shutterstock) WASHINGTON – Consistent with President Trump’s Executive Order “Fighting the Spread of COVID-19 by Providing Assistance to Renters and Homeowners”, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) […]
Cable News Network (CNN) first went on the air in June 1980. Featured here is the giant CNN logo in front of the CNN Center (World Headquarters for CNN). – Atlanta, Georgia/ USA – June 22, 2016 (Shutterstock) By Matt Stieb, NY Mag The middle of this past decade would have been a transitional moment […]
With the COVID-19 pandemic worsening, the economy faltering, and protests against racial injustice continuing, millions of Americans face difficult times and worry about the nation’s future. And with a presidential election around the corner, it’s a critical time for the country to take stock of what political leadership should mean by going back to the […]
By Jennifer Stavros, BitchMedia On August 18, Donald Trump announced his decision to pardon suffragist Susan B. Anthony in a shallow attempt to honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave white women the right to vote. “Today, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) posthumously to Susan […]
Getting the word out about the census in Corona, Queens, Aug. 26, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Rachel Holliday-smith, THE CITY The first responders to the non-responders have only a month left. After a historically fraught census season marked by budget woes, political tussling over a citizenship question, a last-minute timeline cut, and a pandemic, New York’s best hope […]
By Klaus W. Larres, The Conversation Even without a flashy virtual Democratic National Convention to formally introduce his presidential campaign, Joe Biden would be well known worldwide. He was U.S. President Barack Obama’s second-in-command for eight years and sat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for decades, chairing it for several years. Yet for all Biden’s foreign policy […]
Silence is complicity. There is too much at stake this year to be silent. We MUST participate in our democracy. We MUST demand that our voices are heard. And that means WE MUST VOTE. Voting is our constitutional right, and it’s also our power as We The People. It is how we take back our […]
By BBC Protests have erupted in the US state of Wisconsin after police shot a black man many times while responding to what they said was a domestic incident. The man, identified as Jacob Blake, was taken to hospital for surgery and is now in intensive care, his family said. Video posted online appears to […]
Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president on Aug. 20 during the final night of the Democratic National Convention. The coronavirus pandemic upended both parties’ traditional conventions.
Watch as Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the 2020 Democratic National Convention to accept the nomination as Vice President. She reflected on how influential her mother was and what Joe Biden and her can accomplish together.
