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The United States historically led the world in refugee resettlement, but was surpassed by Canada in 2018—and U.S. refugee admissions fell to a record low 12,000 in 2020. With the country now on Article 2021: Refugees and Asylees in the United S.. | migrationpolicy.org
- COVID-19 Prompts Historic Halt to Global Mobility. The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the world in 2020 prompted unprecedented global restrictions on international mobility and migration that could have long-term consequences.
- 2020 Deals Blows to Global Humanitarian Protection and the Notion of Burden-Sharing. Globally, the humanitarian protection system has been fraying for years, buckling under unprecedented demand and hardening attitudes in some countries.
- The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Exacerbated Disparities for Immigrant-Origin Populations and Frayed Supports. The impact of COVID-19 at public-health, economic, and societal levels during 2020 has been stunning, but not evenly felt.
- The Role of Migrants as “Essential Workers” Is Spotlighted During Global Public-Health Crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the extent to which the global economy relies on migrant labor in certain job sectors.
Jun 2, 2020 · National News. News. Home. Pandemic, Recession, Unrest: 2020 and the Confluence of Crises. So far, the multiple and overlapping emergencies of 2020 have shown elements of 1918, 1929 and 1968....
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- Million Americans Vaccinated So Far
- A Patchwork of Lockdown Rules
- Million Lost Jobs
- $1 Trillion For The Richest and A Recession For The Poor
- $28 Trillion in Debt
- 2 Million Acres Burned and 13 Hurricanes
- Opioid Deaths in The Shadow of The Pandemic
- More Than 1,000 Fatal Police encounters
- Falling Life Expectancy
As of Jan. 21, 2021, around 17.5 million COVID-19 shotshave been administered across the country. Both of the current FDA-approved vaccines require two doses to be effective — 15 million people have so far received “one or more doses,” while around 2.3 million have received two. Those who live or work in long-term care facilities like nursing homes...
At the height of state-imposed lockdowns in the spring, more than 310 million Americans were under stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders. As COVID-19 surges to its worst heights across the U.S., 35 states and Washington, D.C. have imposed new lockdown restrictions. In four states — Illinois, New Mexico, California, and Oregon — businesses are mos...
The economic fallout at the onset of the pandemic resulted in the highest unemployment rate in at least 70 years. Now, as 2021 opens, the U.S. economy still has 9.8 million fewer jobscompared to last February, and 10.7 million workers are officially unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But some estimate that number to be much hi...
While tens of millions were suffering from lost jobs and lost income this year, the wealth of America’s billionaires increased by more than $1 trillion, according to the left-leaning think tank Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness. The net worth of this group of 651 people grew from $2.95 trillion in mid-March to $4.01 trilli...
At nearly $28 trillion, the national debt reached by the end of December represents a $7 trillion increase from the year before, a high only rivaled by the sum amassed after World War II in 1946. T Additionally, the national deficit, or losses, grew from $984 billionin 2019 to $3.1 trillion in 2020. A September report from the Government Accountabi...
In 2020, more than 58,250 wildfires burned 10.2 million acres in the Western U.S., another record-setting year that displaced residents and charred communities in California and other states. As of Jan. 12, large swaths of the American West are experiencing extreme and exceptional drought conditions. Meanwhile, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season dr...
In the early months of the pandemic, as the U.S. was confronting the ways coronavirus had upended normal life, drug overdose deaths were spiking, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between March and June, 6,954 people died of an opioid overdose — an estimate that is likely an undercount— compared ...
In a year when the country underwent a notable shift in the national conversation about racial discrimination and excessive use of force by law enforcement, there were more than 1,000 fatal police encounters, according to some estimates. The most comprehensive tracking of police use of force doesn’t come from federal or state government agencies, b...
Less than a year after a national state of emergency was declared over COVID-19, the nation has recorded more than 24 million cases and more than 400,000 people have lost their lives to the disease. That figure is probably an undercount given that it took months for the U.S. to ramp up its testing infrastructure, meaning some died without a confirm...
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- Northern Triangle Exodus Continues. Over 541,000 of the more than two million migrants who arrived at the southern U.S. border in fiscal year 2022 (FY2022) hailed from the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
- Migrants Flock to the Darién Gap. Record numbers of migrants risked their lives in 2022 to cross the treacherous Darién Gap, a remote jungle region bridging Central and South America.
- Border Crossings Reach Record Levels. Apprehensions of migrants at the southern U.S. border surpassed 2.3 million in FY2022, a record high. Migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela drove much of the increase, accounting for 24 percent of all apprehensions.
Important human rights failings of the United States were laid bare in 2020. The grossly disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on Black, brown, and Native people, connected to longstanding ...
Jul 3, 2020 · The death of Qasem Soleimani on January 3 led to days of terrifying tension between the United States and Iran, with massive protests, threats of war and Iran’s retaliatory attack on Iraqi bases ...
