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While I am excited for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to usher in a progressive agenda, the crushingly repressive regime in place for the last four years won’t disappear overnight.
Despite significant gains in health care access under the Affordable Care Act, the federal policies of the Trump administration, paired with decreased federal funding, have significantly eroded equal access to health care. Those people most affected by these restrictions are low-income, people of color and undocumented folks, who already face systemic barriers to care due to racist and discriminatory policies past and present.
Preschoolers, special ed students return to classrooms in Chicago Amilcar Marquez kisses his daughter, Isabella, at Disney II Magnet Elementary School in Chicago s Old Irving Park neighborhood Thursday on her first day back to school. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
Updated 2/11/2021 7:15 PM
After months of arguing about hand sanitizers, positivity rates, air purifiers and the like, a sense of normalcy returned to the city s public schools Thursday at least from the outside as parents clutching mittened hands led their children up snow-dusted steps and back to the classroom. I m kind of scared, but at the same time, he needs to be in school instead of on the computer, said Eboni Johnson, walking her preschooler, Ashton, to William H. Brown Elementary School on the Near West Side. He needs to be with other kids. He s an only child. He needs to have hands-on with his learning.
As another wave of students, teachers and staff are returned to buildings in the wake of the union’s betrayal, new arenas of struggle are opening in Chicago and beyond.