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WASHINGTON -- The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening U.S. inequality in income and race, a senior Federal Reserve official said Thursday.
"This health crisis has not so much changed things as simply exposed, and in some cases accelerated, trends that were already present in our society," Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker said in remarks prepared for a virtual event about reinventing communities.
"The United States went into this crisis a troublingly unequal place, beset by serious inequities in income, wealth, and opportunity," Harker said, adding the Census Bureau calculated that income inequality in 2018 was the highest level in the 50 years since it began measuring it.
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GENEVA -- U.S. authorities must take "serious action" to halt police killings of unarmed African Americans, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Thursday, condemning the killing of an African American while in police custody in Minneapolis.
George Floyd died on Monday evening shortly after a white police officer held him down with a knee on his neck though the black man in his 40s repeatedly pleaded, "I can't breathe," and "please, I can't breathe."
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BUDAPEST -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Friday that a new national consultation would be launched in Hungary on a range of issues relating to the novel coronavirus epidemic and measures to restart the economy.
"A new national consultation on the coronavirus and the necessary measures to restart the economy shall begin," Orban told on his weekly interview on Hungarian public radio channel MR1.
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PARIS -- France will further unwind anti-coronavirus lockdown from June 2, lifting 100-km travel restriction and allowing non-essential businesses, parks and beaches to reopen, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced on Thursday.
The last three weeks of the first phase of deconfinement had "good results," Philippe told a press meeting. "During this phase 2, freedom will become the rule again and bans will be the exception." Enditem
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