Mutual Aid Efforts Are Working to Fill the Gaps of Bidenâs COVID Response
Volunteer Miriam Lopez Ambrosio, a dancer from Oaxaca, Mexico, assists a person with their second vaccination appointment on their phone at a clinic targeting Central American Indigenous residents on April 10, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.
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Weâll take what we can get. This seems to be the general sentiment around the Biden administrationâs response to COVID. We didnât get $2,000 stimulus checks as originally promised, but weâll take the $1,400. They didnât raise the minimum wage to $15 during the midst of a devastating pandemic and recession, but the American Rescue Plan does include a child tax credit beginning in July.