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President Joe Biden and Alaska’s congressional delegation gave the state’s tourism industry a shot in the arm with the signing of legislation that allows cruise ships to return to the Last Frontier this summer.
The Alaska Tourism Restoration Act, which was sponsored by Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, as well as GOP Rep. Don Young, was crafted to waive a provision in federal law that requires most large cruise ships to stop over in Canada before heading to Alaska from Seattle.
The Passenger Vessel Services Act requires that foreign-flagged ships visit at least one foreign port when traveling between states. While the United States is ready to get the cruise ship industry up and running, Canada has banned cruise ships from visiting until 2022, which created the problem that the new legislation has now remedied.
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All of those states, save Connecticut, are led by Republican governors who also have announced that their states will soon end the $300-per-week federal boost to regular state unemployment checks, saying the supercharged benefits are discouraging people from seeking work amid reported labor shortages in some industries.
“I think it’s, in one sense, a worthwhile experiment,” Brian Marks, who teaches economics at the University of New Haven, said of the return-to-work incentives. “However, one has to take into account, and one will have to do the analysis, that some people will be hesitant to go back to work because of health concerns or the absence of child care, let’s say.”
Republicans say the strategy of tying Democrats to violence and the defund the police movement likely won’t play as well in large cities, but it could become an issue in some key districts.
“I think our urban areas and our cities, they’ve been mostly captured by the Democrats and particularly by the progressives, that it’s going to take a lot to shake those voters away from that sensibility,” Naughton said.
Krasner’s primary win in Philadelphia is a key example of progressive control over reform efforts in the nation’s biggest cities.
“If Krasner had lost that would have been a big deal, that he won isn’t as much of a big deal,” Naughton said.