Characterizing fear of COVID-19 infection as ‘unemployment fraud,’ states have begun to crack down on workers instead of supplying them with needed benefits.
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Centrist Democrat Backs Bailout Plan Pushed by His Private Equity Donors
New Jersey Representative Josh Gottheimer is backing a plan from one of his top private equity donors to expand a Federal Reserve bailout program.
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Citizen Children Left Out of Coronavirus Relief Efforts Deserve a Lifeline
The federal stimulus payment program ignores the hardships that the pandemic poses for mixed-status families.
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Unsanitized: Pelosi Dials Up a K Street Bailout
Plus, Jared Kushner is failing at running something again, and the Postal Service has a new leader. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 7, 2020.
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How Private Equity Firms Will Profit From COVID-19
Unless Congress and regulators act, private equity will shed its nonperforming assets and feast on new ones. J. Crew is the latest example.
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Laid-Off Workers Lost Health Coverage: Where’s Pelosi?
Today on TAP: Debates over COBRA impede congressional action
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Unsanitized: The War on the Postal Service Continues
Also, why we needed so many hospital beds in New York City. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 6, 2020.
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A New Generation of Dissenters Dies in Egyptian Prison
The El-Sisi government, having eradicated all forms of protest, is now taking on Instagrammers.
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Grim Reaper Mitch (R-KY)
Today on TAP: The Senate majority leader bargains with workers’ lives
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Unsanitized: We Are Moving Confidently and Proudly Into Mass Death
Also, Democrats belatedly decide on aggression. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 5, 2020.