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Coronavirus is taste of what poor Americans 'feel every day'

Coronavirus is taste of what poor Americans 'feel every day'

06/04/2020

PBS News Hour

Coronavirus is taste of what poor Americans 'feel every day'

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Coronavirus is taste of what poor Americans 'feel every day'

Long lines to enter stores. Anxiety about finding food on the shelves. Boarded up businesses and barren streets. Journalist and author Dawn Turner says this pandemic has afforded everyone the chance to understand what people who live in poor communities faced long before COVID-19. Turner offers her humble opinion on why we all need to make a connection between the pandemic and the protests.

06/04/2020

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