Policy · 116th Congress
COVID-19 panel questions Fed effort to help small businesses
[jwp-video n=”1″] For their credit needs, smaller companies rely more on direct loans from banks or other financiers.
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Policy · 116th Congress
Coronavirus economy drains Social Security, Medicare coffers
[jwp-video n=”1″] An analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center in April showed what could happen to the Social Security trust funds, depending on the severity of any economic downturn.
Policy · 116th Congress
Immigration agency resumes processing U.S.-based green cards
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Policy · 116th Congress
Virus, racism pose more mental health risks for black Americans
[jwp-video n=”1″] Psychiatrist Sarah Vinson, who works with children, teens and adults, said coping with COVID-19 was already difficult, and that is being compounded by signs of racism and health
Policy · 116th Congress
Fintechs try old bank charters as ‘everything old is new again’
[jwp-video n=”1″] A limited freeze in the rule-making caused by the virus is unlikely to slow the rapidly growing trend of fintech firms looking to use this century-old method to become a bank
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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Policy · 116th Congress
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.
Policy · 116th Congress
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
Policy · 116th Congress
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
Policy · 116th Congress
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
Policy · 116th Congress
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
Policy · 116th Congress
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
Policy · 116th Congress
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
DOJ ‘reassigned’ career members of Board of Immigration Appeals
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Policy · 116th Congress
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
Policy · 116th Congress
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