Policy · 116th Congress
Fed’s Powell urges Congress to spend on unemployed in pandemic
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Policy · 116th Congress
Supreme Court extends employment protections to LGBT individuals
[jwp-video n=”1″] But Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, in the majority opinion, wrote that judges can’t overlook “plain statutory commands on the strength of nothing more than suppositions about
Policy · 116th Congress
Supreme Court’s LGBT decision could shake up other laws and lawsuits
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Pandemic survey results suggest risk of ‘huge eviction surge’
[jwp-video n=”1″] Census data shows a similar spike in households that haven’t paid rent or don’t know whether they will, said Solomon Greene, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute.
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Administration puts ‘hold’ on green card requests from US
[jwp-video n=”1″] The USCIS, which is entirely funded by application fees, has sought $1.2 billion in emergency funding from Congress because of a shortfall it said was caused by a drop in applications
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DOT to distribute 100 million masks for travelers
But Chao told Politico on June 1 that the issue is one of “labor management” and that the industry should take the lead in protecting workers, arguing that the federal government tended to be “much
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CDC releases new safety guidance as states lift limits
[jwp-video n=”1″] When asked about the Trump campaign’s planned rallies, Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director of infectious diseases and COVID-19 response incident manager, said the guidance
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Unrest over race dismays US allies, delights enemies
[jwp-video n=”1″] Particularly damaging, say historians and former diplomats, to the reputation of the United States as the Western world’s foremost defender of freedom of speech and rule of
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Court denies AFL-CIO request to require COVID-19 rule from OSHA
[jwp-video n=”1″] While the most recent coronavirus relief bill passed by the House also would require OSHA to issue an emergency temporary standard, Republican control of the Senate suggests
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White House ‘definitely’ wants more COVID-19 aid, Mnuchin says
Beyond the rocky rollout, over $1 billion went to publicly traded companies that still fell under the 500 employee cap.
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Researchers push for public test of census privacy tools
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Census Bureau adopted its differential privacy policy after research showed existing methods, like randomly swapping members of households, failed to do enough to protect
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Trump health official’s approach to contracts faces scrutiny
[jwp-video n=”1″] Ethics experts say laws that forbid contracts from going to allies of federal officials are lax and unlikely to be enforced.
Policy · 116th Congress
HHS announces plan to send out COVID-19 Medicaid payments
In order to qualify for these funds, providers must not have already received funding from a prior allocation and must have billed the state Medicaid program or managed care plans between Jan. 1,
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DOJ ‘reassigned’ career members of Board of Immigration Appeals
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Senate panel grills housing regulators on racial bias, pandemic
Carson defended his pace, saying the agency put out $1 billion within a week, and was on pace to spend all of the appropriated money by the October deadline set by Congress.
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Optimism abounds on cryptocurrency ETFs despite lack of action
[jwp-video n=”1″] Fintech website Coindesk reported in May that the total number of bitcoins held in cryptocurrency exchange wallets dropped to an 18-month low, an indication that some people
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Contact tracing for COVID-19 is hybrid of old and new technologies
[jwp-video n=”1″] Typically, testing labs, hospitals and doctors’ offices in each state electronically report a positive test for any of the trackable diseases into a disease surveillance database
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Two plans for highway investments, zero plans to pay for them
[jwp-video n=”1″] But the most popular alternative to the gas tax — a mechanism that would charge people based on vehicle miles traveled, or VMT — is nowhere near ready for national deployment
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Democrats: CDC ‘sidelined’ by Trump during pandemic response
HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir announced to reporters on a call that labs testing for COVID-19 must request demographic data, around age, sex, race and ethnicity beginning Aug. 1.