The $7,000 Covid test: Why states are stepping in to shield consumers
One national insurer was billed $6,946 for a coronavirus test in Texas, according to claims data reviewed by POLITICO.
One national insurer was billed $6,946 for a coronavirus test in Texas, according to claims data reviewed by POLITICO.
Immigration agents are facing accusations of targeting protesters who are recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Police in Phoenix, Arizona, arrested community activist Máxima Guerrero as she was leaving a protest on May 30 with a group of legal observers. She was one of three DACA recipients arrested over that weekend in Phoenix.
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As protests against police brutality continue nationwide, immigrant rights advocates are sounding the alarm over the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at some of the demonstrations. A viral video showed a group of ICE agents working with the New York City Police Department to detain a protester at a George Floyd rally in New York City last week, and advocates say agents held the man on the ground as they pointed three guns at him and handcuffed and searched him.
Jair Bolsonaro’s government has come under fire for information that has been seen as “fanciful or manipulated.
As people are slowly starting to discuss pay disparities based on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disabilities more openly, one subject that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention is the matter of what monetary advances writers receive for their books. At first, that sounds like a pretty niche topic, but as has become evident via viral Twitter hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, even people without a connection to the publishing world are taking an interest.
Defying economists’ expectations, unemployment fell in May and the economy added 2.5 million jobs.
Pharmaceutical companies are using the media to tout treatments that are still under review.
On June 3, the Los Angeles City Council introduced a motion to cut $100-150 million from the city police department budget. The council cited the week’s protests in the name of Black citizens like Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery. The motion said that “A city’s budget is a reflection of a government’s values, principles and priorities.
Hydroxychloroquine retraction stirs partisan response.
Everything you need to know about bike helmets, locks, lights, and more.
Offered vastly higher reimbursements, many substandard facilities are jumping at the chance to accept sick residents.
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
It seems 2020 is the year of accountability and Reebok is leading the way in its industry. The company announced Sunday that it would end a corporate partnership with CrossFit following racist tweets by CrossFit founder Greg Glassman. “Our partnership with CrossFit HQ comes to an end later this year,” Reebok told the Associated Press.
The move is the latest policing reform to emerge in the U.S. as protests continue over the police killing of George Floyd.
The Fed chief will likely keep up his persistent advice to Congress to spend more to spur a meaningful recovery.
The nation’s attention has turned to the protests, but the coronavirus hasn’t gone away. In fact, the decline in hotspots like New York may hide a growing problem elsewhere—a problem whose path has been disconcertingly random.Staff writer Alexis Madrigal tracks coronavirus data with the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. He joins hosts James Hamblin and Katherine Wells on the podcast Social Distance to give an update on the state of the virus in the United States.
The National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation official on Monday.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.Minneapolis faces a reckoning.Justin Ellis, who grew up in the heart of the city’s Lake Street corridor, found Floyd’s death, and the violence that followed it, “inevitable.
Despite the drop in the unemployment rate in May, many economists feel further aid is needed.
Surprisingly positive jobs numbers had the president ebullient on Friday, gleeful that the upswing indicated America’s ills were on the mend.
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Wow, it’s only Wednesday. But we’ll count that as a good thing, here. Because it means we’ve got another day with Greg Dworkin on tap.
I don’t know how we’re going to top yesterday’s Trump freak out. I suppose the only place for him to go is to accuse Santa of really being Santifa, or something of that nature.
I cracked a joke to break the tension. “Everyone put on your seat belts, because the cops are definitely pulling us over tonight.” Psychologists say that laughter relieves stress and reduces anxiety—I guess that’s what I was going for in that moment. We were five black men sitting in a very nice car, a black Range Rover, about to go out for a night on the town. As I recall, we really tore it up at the local coffee shop with our lattes and pour-overs.
On a modest scale, police defunding is happening. For years, powerful police unions have made law-enforcement funding all but untouchable. As The New York Times noted in 2018, the number of police per capita has risen over the past three decades even as crime rates have plunged. Last week, however, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that he would shave at least $100 million from his city’s law-enforcement budget.
After months of living with the coronavirus pandemic, American citizens are well aware of the toll it has taken on the economy: broken supply chains, record unemployment, failing small businesses. All of these factors are serious and could mire the United States in a deep, prolonged recession. But there’s another threat to the economy, too. It lurks on the balance sheets of the big banks, and it could be cataclysmic.
The Fox News host isn’t happy about “Sesame Street” characters explaining protests to children.
After years of scandal and declining sales, the iconic brand is struggling to survive the coronavirus.