Week, in the depths of the Great Recession and frankly a number like 600,000something would be spectacular news for us at this point. For us now, week after week, i said ten weeks, actually for eight straight weeks as of today, we are over two million americans filing for unemployment. Simultaneously, and perhaps in a related development, the white house announced today that theyre just not going to give their annual National Forecast for the economy this summer. The white house does that every year. They do a budget in february and then they do an Economic Forecast in the summer. For how things are going to go for the rest of the year. Except this year, for the first time in decades, theyve just said theyre not going to do that. Better not to say, right . Imagine what that report would say about the forecast for the economy, if they did have to put it out. Better just to keep mum maybe. We are learning from this federal government with each passing day of the epidemic that not talking
The stark milestone, 100,000 deaths, comes less than three months after the First American was reported to have died. The people most ravaged are those whose suffering often is unseen, the elderly, africanamericans, and the working poor. The Washington Post front page tonight. This is the front page tonight at usa today. Quote, 100,000 deaths. 100,000 people have died from coronavirus in the United States. And it will continue to change our lives. The u. S. Is the only country to record anywhere near 1 million cases of the coronavirus. The country now hits another somber milestone. Heres the front page tonight over at the web site for our friends at cnn. 100,000 americans didnt have to die. One tragedy of americas coronavirus milestone is that so many didnt have to die. Another is that no one knows how many more will perish. Again, this is the cnn front page right now. Also, this next one maybe isnt that important for you to see, but just so youre aware, this is what it is, in contrast
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Me, why would minneapolis than go ahead and why would these officers then choose to do an unannounced entry? what were they expecting on the other side of that door? now we have been doing some reporting on this, and one of my colleagues spoke to a neighbor who used to live in the building next door to the apartment where mr. locke was killed. this person told one of our reporters that there was somebody living there at the time who frankly scared them, and caused this neighbor to call the police. this neighbor said they heard gunshots. we are still digging into this reporting. but this may be a reason why minneapolis police decided to do a no-knock when they had the authority to have an announced entry. that is one of the follow-ups to the story, which is quite interesting. we are going to follow it very closely with you, thank you for being with us, brandt williams is the editor with radio news covering race, class,