Las Vegas Reflects US Crisis

And what can the capitalist system offer to the people profiled in this article? Get sick and maybe die or starve -- "The result [of the shutdown] has been a quiet catastrophe, unfolding in the living rooms of working-class people all across the city. The crush of new claims has all but paralyzed the unemployment office, and some people are now entering their fifth week without income. Mayor Carolyn Goodman argued last week that casinos should reopen and allow people to get sick."

 Nylah [special needs child of the couple profiled in this article] now a lively 8-year-old, had been thriving as a special education second-grader. But she is not getting the medicine she needs to help keep her from vomiting, because [her parents] can no longer afford the copay." It's not just Las Vegas, the whole country is in crisis. There is a solution Congress could provide tomorrow - pass Bernie Sander's bill for Medicare for All and give the struggling masses his proposed relief of $2000 a month. This is a solution that can be done within the capitalist system but won't be because the ruling class political leaders, Republicans and top Democrats alike, want to keep workers down and they know that revolutionary class consciousness is at an all time low (hence Trump as president). Besides just worrying about the future the working class family profiled here "fights back" by "In the evening, they read the Bible out loud." More than ever we have to support the CP's move to recreate the unemployment councils of the 30s and instill a sense of militant revolutionary resistance in our class.

As the U.S. economy has shut down, the burden is falling hardest on those least prepared to handle it.

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How Las Vegas Became Ground Zero for the American Jobs Crisis

As the U.S. economy has shut down, the burden is falling hardest on those least prepared to handle it.