The United States government, with the help of UPS and FedEx, is now moving rapidly to deliver millions of doses of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine, an accomplishment that President Donald Trump praised as a medical miracle. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now calling for the invocation of the Defense Production Act to accelerate manufacturing of the vaccine.
It s now a race against time as thousands of people die every day, alone and separated from their families, from a virus that has devastated communities in every corner of the nation and shaken America s way of life to its core.
Though help is on the way, the situation is expected to get much worse before it gets better. At least 3,300 deaths from the virus were recorded on Friday and more than 231,000 new cases were reported, stretching the U.S. health-care system to the brink.
Biden Made Big Promises On Juvenile Justice. Activists Worry It s Not Enough
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President Trump brought big setbacks for juvenile justice, advocacy groups say â and although they like what they ve heard from President-elect Joe Biden, some activists still worry about what they call an ongoing crisis.
Trump and Biden both have sought political credit at various times for criminal justice reform, but the picture is nuanced; every year, approximately 76,000 children are prosecuted, sentenced, and incarcerated as adults. In 2018, a child was arrested every 43 seconds. Children of color were twice as likely to be arrested than white children.
But practices often touted as getting tough on offenders are especially hurtful when they affect children, advocates say â and changing them must be the first step in any effort to tackle broader changes to the criminal justice system.
Biden Made Big Promises On Juvenile Justice. Activists Worry It s Not Enough
Friday, December 11, 2020
The energy behind the Black Lives Matter movement this year, which included this protest in Portland, Ore., has led activists to push for changes to juvenile justice practices.
Paula Bronstein / AP
President Trump brought big setbacks for juvenile justice, advocacy groups say and although they like what they ve heard from President-elect Joe Biden, some activists still worry about what they call an ongoing crisis.
Trump and Biden both have sought political credit at various times for criminal justice reform, but the picture is nuanced; every year, approximately 76,000 children are prosecuted, sentenced, and incarcerated as adults. In 2018, a child was arrested every 43 seconds. Children of color were twice as likely to be arrested than white children.
December 11, 2020
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The year 2020 has been the worst in the lives of pretty much everyone you know. Imagine, then, in this darkest of clouds, spending your days studying silver linings. That’s the job of Daniel Fessler and Stacey Freeman, two academics who head UCLA’s Bedari Kindness Institute, a new multi-disciplinary program.
“The state has higher unemployment than in the U.S. overall, and the state is due to grow faster than the U.S. once restrictions are lifted and the pandemic is in the rear-view mirror,” UCLA Anderson Forecast economists Jerry Nickelsburg and Leila Bengali wrote. (Also: City News Service, MyNewsLA, Bloomberg, KCRW-FM and KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk.”)