How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
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Ticketmaster’s Reckless, Privacy-Shredding Covid Plan to Get You in Their Seats
Ticketmaster wants to use technology to make events safer. Too bad its ideas are intrusive and medically questionable.
Read more...Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium
Tenants face harassment and lockouts to pressure them to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back.
Read more...Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures
Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?
Read more...Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread
And just when you started to think an effective Covid vaccine would fix everything….
Read more...Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party
Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
Read more...The Super Cold Covid Vaccine Distribution Problem
The more you look at Pfizer’s vaccine, the more you have to think they really really needed that first mover advantage.
Read more...Quick Comments on the Biden-Harris Covid Plan: Not Much Sizzle and No Steak
The Biden transition team has abandoned most of the Biden campaign Covid promises, particuarly the ones that cost money.
Read more...The Collateral Damage to Children’s Education During Lockdown
High-quality before and after tests in the Netherlands suggest at-home lockdown education was a complete bust for primary school kids.
Read more...Jobs Picture Emerges of Weird Recovery to Historically Awful Level
Jobs not galore. And the target keeps moving.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Financialization and Deindustrialization
Michael Hudson on how Trump’s policies have not addressed the fundamental forces that gutted industrial jobs under the both parties
Read more...How Covid-19 Is Increasing Support for Social Spending
Quelle surprise! Americans want better social safety nets, particularly now with the Covid wolf at the door.
Read more...The Other Eviction Moratorium: Storefront and Office Tenants are Hanging on. But for How Long?
New York City’s struggle between commercial landlords and their tenants over rents owed versus lousy recovery prospects reveals a lot about perverse incentives.
Read more...McKinsey, Deloitte Charge Big Bucks to States for Botched Covid Projects
McKinsey and some other big consulting names are taking advantage of Covid-overwhelmed state governments.
Read more...One Trump Voter Explains Why Trump Will Win
An astute Trump backer argues that Trump is closer to a win that you think.
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