Tag: essential workers
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April 2020 turned “essential” into a badge, but too often it functioned as camouflage. Praise and applause can’t substitute for protection, pay, and enforceable safety. The pandemic didn’t invent inequality, it made it impossible to ignore, drawing a brutal line between who gets to stay home and who is expected to
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An explainer on why political systems felt increasingly slow and unresponsive in late 2019, and how institutional drag shaped public trust before crisis hit.
