If you think voter registration in a pandemic is a challenge generally, consider the special case of college students who have no idea where they will be living in September.
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Unsanitized: Newfound Democratic Leverage on the Relief Bill
Also, baseball on the verge of striking out. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for July 27, 2020.
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The $5.3 Trillion Question Behind America’s COVID-19 Failure
That’s the amount of buybacks U.S. corporations funneled to shareholders during the past decade—rather than invest in technologies for the common good.
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How Biden and Trump Explain the American Story
On the campaign trail, it’s American progress versus blood and soil.
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COVID Forces Hospitals to Rethink Emergency Treatment Strategies
Dr. Jeffrey Matthews, Department of Surgery Chair at University of Chicago Medicine, discusses how hospitals have responded to the pandemic.
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Unsanitized: Republicans in Disarray this Time
Also, vaccine insider trading. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for July 25, 2020.
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Unsanitized: How the Federal Reserve’s Thumb is on the Bailout Scale
Also, updates on Social Security and debt collectors. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for July 24, 2020.
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Who Should Say When a Workplace Is Safe? The Workers, That’s Who.
Today on TAP: L.A. County empowers workers’ councils
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Unsanitized: Mitt Romney Wants to Use the Crisis to Cut Your Social Security
A Bowles-Simpson-style process to cut benefits could end up in the Republican economic relief bill. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for July 23, 2020.
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Back to School
Universities that lived by the market model during the boom years face an extinction event as the bubble bursts and their business model pushes them to make perverse decisions about campus opening.
