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Joe Biden might not have expected any Republicans to vote for Neera Tanden as his nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, but her snappish Twitter persona and unapologetically partisan hot takes have proved unpopular on both sides of the aisle. Now even some Democrats seem to be withdrawing support. West Virginia moderate Joe Manchin a crucial vote has said he’s a no.
Slate’s senior political reporter, Jim Newell, says there’s no question Tanden is qualified for the job: She’s worked with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a number of policy roles, she helped draft the Affordable Care Act, and she’s president of the Center for American Progress, a major Democratic think tank. The stiff opposition to Tanden’s confirmation is about much more than her experience. On Thursday’s episode of What Next, I talked to Newell about what’s behind the pushback and what that means for the rest of Biden’s picks. This conversation has b
(CBM) – The national equivalent of California’s controversial AB 5 labor law is making its way through the United States Congress. On Feb. 4, House and Senate Democrats re-introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act as HR 842.
The federal labor reform legislation calls for several provisions that would strengthen unions and protect workers and has built into it a number of similarities to AB 5, which reclassified millions of independent contractors in California as employees. In the Golden State, that legislation was significantly amended after passage with exemptions for particular classes of freelance workers.
“Democrats will always fight to defend the sacred promise to protect hard-working families while safeguarding the fundamental right to join a union. America’s middle class has a union label on it, and as the Democratic Congress works with the new Biden-Harris Administration to “Build Back Better,” we will do so in a way that tilts the playing fiel
NEW YORK (Feb. 24, 2021) – Long Island University (LIU) has announced the winners of the 73rd annual George Polk Awards in Journalism, honoring journalists in 18 categories for their reporting in 2020.
Almost half of the awardees won for reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic, which dominated the judging process, accounting for one quarter of all submissions. This year saw a record total of 592 entries, work that appeared in print, online or on television or radio and was nominated by news organizations and individuals or recommended by a national panel of advisors.
“As always, we strive to identify individual reporters who do significant work, not just the news organizations themselves,” said John Darnton, curator of the awards. “We have never seen a story on the scale of the pandemic. In large part it fell to the press to inform the public about it and the press performed admirably. Our eight Polk winning entries represent the best of the best.”
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