"And what is very interesting is that for a variety of reasons the Congress ended up concluding that the normal wages that people were receiving, the $10 an hour or $11 an hour, were starvation wages that families could not survive on in general and certainly not during the pandemic. So you have a situation now with a Congress essentially on the record as saying that people need at least $40,000 — because $600 a week is $30,000 a year plus other unemployment. That is what people need to survive. That is a very profound statement, because one of the great crises facing our country now and before the pandemic is the fact that half of the people in America are living paycheck to paycheck."

Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster was shot and killed in an altercation with a motorist who had driven into an intersection full of protesters in Austin. Foster was marching with his disabled fiancé, and was legally carrying an AK-47.

"Former Brazilian president discusses his country's response to COVID-19 and US involvement in Latin American affairs."

"From Los Angeles to New York, protesters marched in a show of solidarity with demonstrations in Portland, Ore. In Seattle, they smashed windows and set fires. A shooting at a protest in Austin, Texas, left one man dead."