Shelves normally stocked with hand wipes, hand sanitizer and toilet paper sit empty at a Target store near Arlington, Virginia.(Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the United States has “one of the poorest systems of unemployment insurance in the world”—and that our number one priority should be to keep workers connected to their jobs. His book People, Power and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent is out now in paperback, with a new preface.
Also: Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about solidarity with the front-line workers fighting the virus—starting in New York, where people cheer hospital workers coming off their shifts at 7 every night.
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