By Craig Shirley | April 30, 2021 | 12:37pm EDT
Featured is Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. (Photo credit: Earl Gibson III/Getty Images)
Margaret Thatcher once famously said, “Beware the Nanny State. The state that takes too much from you in order to do too much for you.”
Fake milestones are important to some people, especially when one has to keep up the image of productivity.
If this weren’t the case, then perhaps we wouldn’t be hearing about the latest bit of tomfoolery to come out of the federal government. President Biden has reached the 100 day milestone of his first term and to mark the occasion, his government is going after menthol cigarettes.
President Joe Biden s first speech to Congress
President Joe Biden delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress, televised across the nation, as he approached his 100th day in office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Kamala Harris are behind Biden, the first time in history that two women are sitting on the dais behind the president. Pool Photo by Chip Somodevilla/UPI | License Photo
In the speech, Biden explained how his sweeping infrastructure plan will help Americans recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and compete globally. Pool Photo by Melina Mara/UPI | License Photo
May 2 The court rulings brought hope. Finally, California's Native American population the nation's largest would receive its rightful share of federal health care funding. Triumphant, leaders in the California Native community journeyed to Washington to negotiate the process of opening the funding pipeline. That was more than four decades ago. Today, despite a 1979 federal court-ordered .
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said his swing through Seattle is about vaccines, vaccines, vaccines. Author: Chris Daniels Updated: 7:52 PM PDT April 29, 2021
SEATTLE Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra toured Seattle s Lumen Field Event Center mass vaccination site this week. It s the largest civilian-led vaccine site in the country.
Becerra said his swing through Seattle is all about vaccines, vaccines, vaccines. He helped celebrate that at least 60% of Seattle adults have received at least one dose, and a surplus of vaccine available.
But he also addressed a lingering problem throughout the state, and that s getting the Latino population inoculated. UW s Center for Latino Health reports that only 7% of Washington s Latino population has received one dose, citing access and confidence as issues. According to recent census data, 13.5% of the state identifies as Latino and infection rates among Latino