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As Amazon union vote count drags on, activists say "this is everybodys fight" By Musadiq Bidar Updated on: April 6, 2021 / 9:35 PM / CBS News The public portion of the vote counting process to determine whether workers in a Birmingham, Alabama suburb will form the first-ever union at an Amazon warehouse is estimated to begin this week. The election will affect the 6,000 employees at the Bessemer warehouse. But the final results could be delayed because both Amazon and t...

Link Copied President Joe Biden can’t expect a lot of cooperation from Texas. That much has been made clear by state Republicans’ behavior in just the past three months. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led a far-fetched federal lawsuit to overturn Biden’s victory. After that failed, he brought a suit against the new administration’s plan to pause immigration deportations only two days into Biden’s presidency. Just days after that, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order...

Brookings used those projections to see how growth differs from the baseline in different states. Tourism-heavy states, like Nevada, see the biggest percent differences. DC and Massachusetts may experience smaller changes to their employment growth because of the pandemic than other states, based on a new Brookings report. Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, and research assistant Yang You looked at how employment may change across the U...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package is being hailed by Democrats and progressive policy advocates as a generational expansion of the social safety net,...

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Several aspects seem targeted at restructuring the country’s social safety net and actually lifting people out of poverty.

President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package is being hailed by Democrats and progressive policy advocates as a generational

The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 14.5 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 17.6 % LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Todays posts include: U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 49,356 U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 1,557 U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 29.4 % of the population The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases improved and deaths worsened The Real Reasons Why...

“When you stand back and look at it, that’s when you really can appreciate the sheer scope of it."

The package is a generational expansion of the social safety net, providing food and housing assistance, greater health care access and direct aid to families.