内容摘要：The declarations “signified this might be us finally breaking through the noise that they haven’t been willing to hear,” said Ryan McClinton, who works at the nonprofit Public Health Advocates in Sacramento County, California. Marsha Guthrie, the senior director at the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, called 2020 a “catalytic moment for us to kind of reimagine social consciousness.”

The declarations “signified this might be us finally breaking through the noise that they haven’t been willing to hear,” said Ryan McClinton, who works at the nonprofit Public Health Advocates in Sacramento County, California. Marsha Guthrie, the senior director at the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, called 2020 a “catalytic moment for us to kind of reimagine social consciousness.”

The Associated Press asked for your questions about Trump’s tariffs. Here are a few of them, along with our answers:The U.S. Constitution gives

. That includes tariffs, which are just a tax on imports. Over the years, however, Congress has ceded some authority to impose tariffs to the president under various laws.For example, Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 allows the president to slap taxes on imports that he says pose a threat to national security. Trump used Section 232 to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum in his first term and on cars and auto parts in his second. But Section 232 requires a Commerce Department investigation, which takes time.Likewise, Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 allows the president to tax imports from countries found to have engaged in unfair trade practices after an investigation by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Trump used Section 301 in his first term to impose tariffs on China in a dispute over Beijing’s sharp-elbowed attempts to challenge U.S. technological supremacy through tactics such as subsidizing Chinese firms and forcing U.S. companies to hand over trade secrets.

Trump wanted to move faster after he returned to the White House in January. So he reached for the power to impose tariffs himself without waiting around. He turned to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977, arguing that the law allowed him to declare a national emergency and impose tariffs to address it.So in February he declared the

an emergency and used it to justify tariffs on

. Then last month he declared America’s long-running trade deficits an emergency andwho lack permanent legal status after their work hours; and in California, where

, who often work on farms or at meatpacking plants.“We’ve learned that we have to go to people, we have to go to where they’re at, they’re not going to come to us,” said Mandip Kaur, the health director of the nonprofit Jakara Movement.

More than one-third of the nation’s rural hospitals — about 700 — are at risk of closing because of “serious financial problems,” according to a July analysis from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. Harold Miller, the center’s president and CEO, said one hospital closure can ripple through a rural community.“If the hospital didn’t exist, there wouldn’t be any physicians there,” Miller said. “There is no place to go and get a lab test except for that hospital. There may be no nursing home or place to get rehab or long-term care other than these hospitals.”