The Center for Law and Social Policy Feb. 6 applauded Pronita Gupta on her appointment as special assistant to President Joe Biden for labor and workers on the Domestic Policy
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Most workers in the solid waste and recycling industry remain on the sidelines when it comes to access to the COVID-19 vaccine thus far.
Around 53 million vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S., according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This month brought news that Johnson & Johnson submitted its vaccine candidate to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which if authorized soon could be the third vaccine available and the first for which a single shot is sufficient. Separately, the Biden administration announced last week it secured 200 million additional vaccine doses, bringing the national total to 600 million. But for now, states individual rollouts remain in their early phases.
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Congressional Update. It was another busy week on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Senate was, of course, preoccupied with the historic second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump. In the U.S. House of Representatives, meanwhile, committees began working on their respective pieces of the reconciliation budget relief package. The House Committee on Education and Labor advanced its portion of the package, which includes a phased-in increase of the minimum wage to $15 per hour (and elimination of the tip credit) but does not include an extension and expansion of the paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Of course, there are still many hoops and hurdles to jump through and surmount before any of this becomes final.