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Don’t Miss this Month’s WI Bridge Center Section Vol. 55, No. 45 • August 27 - September 2, 2020
Report: COVID-19 Now Third Leading Cause of Death Among Blacks
By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer @StacyBrownMedia America’s economic situation has plummeted since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis and families across race and ethnicity feel the pain, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution which says that the coronavirus now stands as the third leading cause of death among African Americans. “If I told you on January 1 that a new virus that we did not even know about would, in August, be the third leading cause of death for Black Americans, our hair should have been set on fire and we would have an extensive public policy response to this unprecedented pandemic,” noted Trevon Logan, professor of economics at the Ohio State University. Logan co-authored the report titled, “The
Hamilton Project, Racial Economic Inequality Amid the COVID-19 Crisis,” with Bradley L. Hardy of the American University in Northwest. “In 2020, more Black Americans will die of COVID-19 than will succumb to diabetes, strokes, accidents, or pneumonia. In fact, COVID-19 is currently the third leading cause of death for African Americans,” Logan and Hardy concluded. Among the reasons for the disparity is that African Americans are more than twice as likely as the average worker to be employed in the healthcare support service industry which has been decimated by COVID-19 in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. African Americans are also significantly overrepresented in the personal care and service and
COVID Page 28 5 African Americans have been hit especially hard by the coronavirus. (Photo courtesy Pew Charitable Trusts)
Ward 8 Residents Express Frustration with the Postal Service
D.C. Republicans Focus on Building Party, Not Donald Trump
By James Wright WI Staff Writer @JamesDCWrighter
Notable Absences from GOP National Convention include Ted Cruz, George W. Bush By James Wright WI Staff Writer @JamesDCWrighter
District Republicans participated in this week’s GOP national convention to support President Trump but building the party in their hometown re5 Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope mains the primary goal, leaders and activists say. Community Church in Beltsville, Maryland (Courtesy photo/Hope Community
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Even with a delay in Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s remodeling of the U.S. Postal Service and a bill to pump $25 billion into the mail agency, District leaders and residents, especially in Ward 8, remain frustrated by inconsistent mail service from a troubled, underfunded agency with a demoralized workforce. DeJoy, facing allegations of crippling mail delivery on the verge of an expected avalanche of mail-in voting, suspended further changes in postal operations until after the Nov. 3 election.
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5 (Seated) Ward 8 advisory neighborhood commissioner Pat Carmon, (standing l-r) Ray Robinson, American Postal Workers Union, Ward 8 advisory neighborhood commissioner Salim Adofo, Keith Hooks of National Association of Letter Carriers and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton at the Benjamin Franklin Post Office in Northwest on Aug.20. (Hamil Harris/The Washington Informer)
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