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Migrating for the lockdown: India’s government only gave its citizens four hours to prepare for the nationwide lockdown. Many migrant workers and their families were forced to return to their villages immediately. Some were able to take buses (above) while others were forced to walk. (Bhuvan Bagga/AFP/Getty Images)

Governments, cushion the poor from Covid-19’s blow

Already vulnerable, working-class and informal workers are being left destitute and unsupported

Rema N Hanna
Benjamin A Olken