COVID-19 – UB CENTER FOR URBAN STUDIES
UB-Community partnership helping to blunt effect of pandemic on Buffalo’s most vulnerable citizens
By Ellen Goldbaum
Read the full article from UBNow, here.
“A powerful partnership that brought UB faculty and community leaders together to fight against health disparities has allowed the community to respond more effectively to the pandemic than many cities across the nation, university and community leaders said today.”
“The New Normal”
An interview with Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr.
“People are saying ‘We don’t want to go back to the old way. We don’t want to find, on the other side of the apocalypse, the same old type of society…that we saw before.’”
The CARES Act is Bi-Partisan Voodoo Economics at its Finest
By Ian Stern
“The ideology of the primacy of the market is oozing from this stimulus package and the rhetoric being used by Republicans. The proposed stimulus only proves Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words true, ‘We have socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.’”
Tomorrow is Here
By Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
“We are now in unchartered waters. The world we knew yesterday no longer exists. The surreal is the new reality. This pandemic conjures up images of the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918. It is way too early to compare COVID-19 to that tragedy, but already this pandemic has generated a response the world has never seen before.”
