Some 75% of all frontline workers are people of color, including 82% of cleaning services employees, according to a report by the New York City comptroller. More than 40% of transit employees are black, while over 60% of cleaning workers are Hispanic.
The fourth day of protests against police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody, turned into violence on Sunday night as some protestors broke into luxury downtown stores. These scenes were played out across the country. Peaceful protesters marched down Columbus Avenue on Sunday afternoon holding placards and wearing #BlackLivesMatters T-shirts. It was, perhaps, the largest group of people gathered in one place since social distancing began.
“These patterns were predicted in the early stages of the pandemic, and proposals for relief called for targeted and proportional funding,” Jonathan Rothwell, the principal economist at Gallup, said. “The U.S. Congress relied heavily on the unemployment insurance system to provide relief, but Gallup data finds that low-income, laid-off workers are less likely to be approved for unemployment insurance than high-income workers“ and “raises questions about the efficacy of relief programs.
Black and Latino people in New York City are dying at twice the rate of Caucasians, preliminary data released last month by the City of New York showed. Hispanic residents were dying at a rate of 21.3 per 100,000, black and African-American people were dying at a rate of 23.1 per 100,000, other non-Hispanic/Latino, non-white races were dying at a rate of 40.2 per 100,000. Meanwhile, white people were dying at a rate of 15.7 per 100,000 and Asians at a rate of 9.1 per 100,000.
Kay, a nurse at The Brooklyn Hospital who did not want to give her last name for fear of reprisals from relatives of patients who are not allowed to visit their loved ones, told CBS reporter David Begnaud, who was covered in a hazmat decontamination suit and large face shield. “It’s like something out of the Twilight Zone.” She added, “I’d like a mask like yours. We should all have masks like yours, and that white suit you have on? What do I have on? What is this?” It was a garbage bag.
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