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“It’s Tolerating Poor Service at the Top”: What Louis DeJoy’s Changes to USPS Will Do to the Mail
“First class” is about to become a misnomer.
“It’s Tolerating Poor Service at the Top”: What Louis DeJoy’s Changes to USPS Will Do to the Mail
“First class” is about to become a misnomer.
We Could Solve Homelessness if We Wanted
Few problems are simultaneously so distressing and so addressable.
Why Is Tower Records Coming Back Now, of All Times?
It’s trying to offer something Amazon and Spotify can’t.
J&J on track to meet vaccine delivery goal, White House says
White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said Friday the company was due to send the government 11 million more doses next week.
We Could Solve Homelessness if We Wanted
Few problems are simultaneously so distressing and so addressable.
Trump CDC chief: Coronavirus ‘escaped’ from Chinese lab
The World Health Organization has concluded that theory is “extremely unlikely.
‘Alex Azar Anonymous’: Trump health officials start a club to counter former HHS chief
Leaders of Trump’s Covid response are aligning their stories, worried that Azar will try to pin the blame on them in upcoming books.
Why Is Tower Records Coming Back Now, of All Times?
It’s trying to offer something Amazon and Spotify can’t.
The pandemic dramatically reduced flu cases. That could backfire.
The low levels of flu during the Covid-19 pandemic have left experts with a much smaller pool of data used for predicting which flu strains will predominate next winter.
J&J on track to meet vaccine delivery goal, White House says
White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said Friday the company was due to send the government 11 million more doses next week.
California will expand vaccine eligibility to all adults April 15
The moves are possible due to an expected vast increase in vaccine supply, Newsom said in a statement.
Trump CDC chief: Coronavirus ‘escaped’ from Chinese lab
The World Health Organization has concluded that theory is “extremely unlikely.
‘Alex Azar Anonymous’: Trump health officials start a club to counter former HHS chief
Leaders of Trump’s Covid response are aligning their stories, worried that Azar will try to pin the blame on them in upcoming books.
The pandemic dramatically reduced flu cases. That could backfire.
The low levels of flu during the Covid-19 pandemic have left experts with a much smaller pool of data used for predicting which flu strains will predominate next winter.
California will expand vaccine eligibility to all adults April 15
The moves are possible due to an expected vast increase in vaccine supply, Newsom said in a statement.
Dear Care and Feeding: My In-Laws Keep Bringing Their Sick Kids Into My House
Parenting advice on unhygienic in-laws, husband anxiety, and ableism.
Prepare for a Perfect Spring Day With This Cooler, Now at a Chilled-Out Price
The Coleman FlipLid Personal Cooler is now $13, or 33 percent off.
‘Crazy things happen’: Biden’s next spending spree fuels a fight over risks
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
Black workers, hammered by pandemic, now being left behind in recovery
Structural inequities in the U.S. labor market that have affected Black and Hispanic workers’ ability to advance out of low-paying jobs, as well as discrimination in hiring practices, are also likely having an effect.
Fed sees U.S. economic growth surging to 6.5 percent this year
Central bank officials now expect the unemployment rate to drop to 4.5 percent by the end of 2021.
Treasury secretary minimizes risk of inflation caused by Covid relief package
Janet Yellen said the greater risk was not strengthening the economy as it recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
Former Stockton Mayor Tubbs joins Newsom as economic adviser
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents.
Evanston, Illinois, to Pay Reparations to Black Families Harmed by Decades of Racist Housing Policies
Evanston, Illinois, has become the first city in the United States to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery. The Chicago suburb’s City Council voted 8 to 1 to distribute $400,000 to eligible Black households, with qualifying residents receiving $25,000 for home repairs or down payments on property.
Danny Glover on Amazon Union Drive, the Power of Organized Labor & Centuries of Resistance in Haiti
As workers in Bessemer, Alabama, continue to vote on whether to establish the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States, we speak with actor and activist Danny Glover, who recently joined organizers on the ground to push for a yes vote. “This election is a statement,” says Glover, one of the most high-profile supporters of the closely watched union drive. Nearly 6,000 workers, most of them Black, have until March 29 to return their ballots.
Jim Crow Redux: Georgia GOP Governor Signs “Egregious” Voter Suppression Law Targeting Black Voters
Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp has signed a sweeping elections bill that civil rights groups are blasting as the worst voter suppression legislation since the Jim Crow era. The bill grants broad power to state officials to take control of election management from local and county election boards.