Today on TAP: Debates over COBRA impede congressional action
bailouts
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Grim Reaper Mitch (R-KY)
Today on TAP: The Senate majority leader bargains with workers’ lives
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Uber’s Bait and Switch on Paid Sick Leave
Rideshare drivers with pre-existing conditions who had counted on getting two weeks’ leave have been unable to do so.
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COBRA Bites
Today on TAP: Congress leaves laid-off workers on the hook for health insurance costs
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Unsanitized: Biden and Warren Write an Op-Ed for One Person
Also, a PPP announcement. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 4, 2020.
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Unsanitized: Shalala Appears to Still Hold Several Individual Stocks
Also, the virus hits a plateau and stays there. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 2, 2020.
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Student Debt and the Fed
Today on TAP: If the Fed can bail out Wall Street, why not college students?
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Trump Helps Health Insurers Swell Their Profits
Relaxing a key ACA regulation will enable these companies to … lower their rates? No! To reward their investors!
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Sheila Bair Floated as Bailout Oversight Panel Chair
The Republican former FDIC chair would be a strong voice for the public interest, oversight watchdogs say.
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McConnell, Trump, and T.S. Eliot
Today on TAP: Republicans’ selective invocations of fiscal rectitude
