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Congress must fill the leadership void

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President Trump is promising a swift and seamless economic recovery if only the states will hurry up and lift their stay-at-home orders. “Those jobs will be back and they’ll be back very soon,” he said, reacting to last month’s horrendous spike in...

Don't end expanded unemployment insurance: Improve it

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We stand at the precipice of another Great Depression. In a matter of weeks, 41 million workers have lost their jobs, and the unemployment rate may soon surpass its peak in the Great Depression. To help address this crisis, The Coronavirus Aid,...

National housing policy needs a complete renovation

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America’s national housing policy urgently needs a foundation-to-roof renovation. As COVID-19 now threatens to induce a surge of evictions and greater homelessness, and perhaps again later with a second wave of disease, this policy utterly lacks the...

Congress needs to revitalize the Supplemental Security Income program for the elderly

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Many people think the Social Security Act passed during the Great Depression was only about creating the Social Security program. The Act, however, brought into existence the entire structure of the country’s current income support system...

Navigating workers compensation and damage claims based on COVID-19

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The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in wide-ranging litigation involving public health, health care, education, criminal justice, commerce, and virtually every aspect of modern life. Employment cases have been brought alleging, among other things...

Reform the child welfare system to protect vulnerable children

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The child welfare system — like other powerful institutions, including law enforcement and the incarceration system — is under attack.  The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic along with a reckoning with systemic racism and inequality...

Without support, the economy's weak points can crumble its entire foundation

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The new administration has taken several key steps during its first weeks in office to promote economic recovery from the pandemic, but the country still faces a rocky path ahead. The impact on small businesses has been devastating, millions of...

Biden $1.5T budget proposes major hike in social programs

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President Biden on Friday proposed a $1.5 trillion annual budget for fiscal 2022, $118 billion higher than the regular 2020 appropriations, featuring a significant 16 percent boost in nondefense spending.The $769 billion nondefense budget, which...

Poll: Americans back new spending, tax hikes on wealthy, but remain wary of economic impact

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Most Americans back new government spending on social programs and favor tax hikes for the wealthy, but remain wary of the broader economic impacts of such proposals, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released this week.The poll found...

Juan Williams: Biden's child tax credit is a game-changer

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As President Biden might put it, his expansion of the child tax credit is a “Big F---ing Deal.”How big?Check out TikTok videos of parents singing and dancing about #ChildTaxCredit2021.The plan means five million children will no longer have to live...

Americans simply don't want the costs of Biden's Build Back Better bill

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Democrats are desperately trying to salvage their $3.5 trillion Build Back Better reconciliation bill opposed by moderate Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who reportedly has agreed to work on a compromise....

US laws exacerbated the homeless crisis — now, they can help to end it

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Right now, as Congress negotiates cuts to President Biden’s initiative to Build Back Better, millions of Americans are without a stable — or any — place to live. Many critical provisions hang in the balance, but one thing is certain: Without...

Biden framework includes $150B for affordable housing

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President Biden’s proposed climate change and social services bill is expected to include $150 billion for affordable housing creation and financial assistance, elating supporters who feared it would be cut from Democrats' package.The White House on...

Joe Manchin has a point: Means-testing would make 'social infrastructure' bill affordable

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Now that the physical infrastructure bill has passed, Democrats are working to shoehorn their social priorities into a shrinking budget target, pared down from an earlier $3.5 trillion to around $1.75 trillion. But instead of real cuts, it appears...

Build Back Better can restore what's been gutted from US housing

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Democrats and Republicans alike have called Build Back Better “transformative,” albeit with different meanings and implications. So have many advocates, myself included, and some of the bill’s provisions may in fact merit that designation...

What does the Preamble to the Constitution have to do with Build Back Better?

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As Congress debates whether and how much of President Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) legislation to approve, it is important to keep at least two factors in mind:First, the proposed BBB is consistent with the Preamble to our...




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