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Aug 03 2020
News
White House Explores Trump Acting on His Own on Virus Relief
The White House is exploring whether President Donald Trump can act on his own to extend enhanced unemployment benefits and eviction protection if lawmakers fail to act, people familiar with the matter said.
The White House is concerned about the economic impact of the $600 a week supplemental benefits having expired on Friday, the people said, as Democrats and Republicans have been
BloombergMay 27 2020
News
Local music venues get rocked by coronavirus
Live music was an early casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, and independent venues across the country are especially at risk as the crisis drags on.
Why it matters: These venues are accessible cultural spaces and key economic drivers, and no one in the industry, from bands to bookers to bartenders, knows when things will return to normal.
The state of play: More than 1,200
AxiosJan 15 2020
News
Klobuchar Torches Warren on Feasibility of Medicare for All
Health care took up a substantial chunk of Tuesday night's Democratic debate in Des Moines, Iowa. The stage is divided on the issue, with Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) advocating fiercely for Medicare for All, while former Vice President Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) support more modest proposals with lower price tags.
Medicare for
TownhallApr 17 2020
News
China economy shrinks for first time as Wuhan Covid-19 death toll is increased by 1,300
China’s economy shrank 6.8% in the three months of 2020, the country’s first such contraction on record and a stark sign of the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
The news came as Chinese authorities revised the death toll in Wuhan, the hardest hit city and where the virus first emerged, up by 50%, to 3,869 from 2,579.
Citing the number of patients who had died at home
The GuardianApr 16 2020
News
Why Reopening Society Too Quickly Could Be Dangerous
“You cannot fight a fire blindfolded, and we cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last month. “We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test.”
Many nations failed to heed that advice during the early days and weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. But as countries around the
HuffPostMay 16 2014
News
Congress Party Concedes Defeat as India Backs Modi
NEW DELHI — The Indian National Congress, which has headed India’s government for nearly all the country’s post-Independence history, conceded defeat to the opposition leader Narendra Modi on Friday, as voters rendered a crushing verdict on their country’s flagging economic growth and a drumbeat of corruption scandals.
New York Times (News)Jun 10 2013
Opinion
Michael Medved - Why the Public Questions the Recovery
While economists and politicians celebrate economic recovery the American people refuse to accept the good news. Only a third of the public sees the nation headed in the right direction a figure thats dropped ten points since President Obamas re-election
TownhallMay 21 2016
Opinion
How the West (and the Rest) Got Rich
Why are we so rich? An American earns, on average, $130 a day, which puts the U.S. in the highest rank of the league table. China sits at $20 a day (in real, purchasing-power adjusted income) and India at $10, even after their emergence in recent decades from a crippling socialism of $1 a day. After a few more generations of economic betterment, tested in trade, they will be rich, too.
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 26 2021
News
One coal state senator holds the key to Biden’s ambitious climate agenda. And it’s not McConnell.
He’s a coal country native, born to a family of mining town mayors. As West Virginia governor, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency. He has scuttled efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, criticized the Paris climate agreement and famously shot a copy of a cap-and-trade carbon proposal full of lead.
Now the fate of the most ambitious climate agenda ever proposed by an
Washington PostSep 25 2020
News
Some Public Companies Took Out PPP Loans Then Paid Dividends And Bought Back Shares
Some publicly traded companies that received loans under the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, or PPP, subsequently bought shares of their own stock and paid out dividends, raising questions about whether such loans were even needed by some firms.
The Washington Post reported that while the practice is not prohibited, the taxpayer-backed, low-interest forgivable small
International Business Times