Biden Plan Spurs Fight Over What âInfrastructureâ Really Means
Republicans say the White House is tucking liberal social programs into legislation that should be focused on roads and bridges. Administration officials say their approach invests in the future.
Installing fiber optic cables to provide high-speed internet to rural residents in Amherst, Va. Internet access has increasingly been regarded as something akin to roads and bridges for the digital era.Credit.Kendall Warner/The News & Advance, via Associated Press
April 5, 2021, 7:27 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON â The early political and economic debate over President Bidenâs $2 trillion American Jobs Plan is being dominated by a philosophical question: What does infrastructure really mean?
Amazonâs Clashes With Labor: Days of Conflict and Control
Amazon was built on an underdog philosophy, but its workers are finding a voice. That presents a problem for the company that goes far beyond the union vote in Alabama.
Union organizers distribute literature as employees exit the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Ala., in December. A growing number of workers feel the company is pushing them past their limits.Credit.Bob Miller for The New York Times
April 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
It has been Day 1 at Amazon ever since the company began more than a quarter-century ago. Day 1 is Amazon shorthand for staying hungry, making bold decisions and never forgetting about the customer. This start-up mentality â underdogs against the world â has been extremely good for Amazonâs shoppers and shareholders.
New York City Schools Have Been Closing a Lot. Thatâs About to Change.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is easing the two-case rule about positive virus cases that had been forcing many schools to temporarily shut this year.
The mayor said he would change the two-case rule, but he did not reveal any details.Credit.Anna Watts for The New York Times
April 5, 2021Updated 11:50 a.m. ET
Mayor Bill de Blasio will change a rule that has, for months, created a paradox in New York Cityâs school reopening plan: Classrooms that had been reopened to students often closed again because school buildings had to shut temporarily whenever two unrelated virus cases were detected.
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