COVID-19 Crisis Seen as Opportunity for Liberals to Achieve Policy Goals
For some special interests, a fading coronavirus pandemic poses a problem, but not always an insurmountable one. Big Labor and its acolytes cite the virus as a compelling reason for doubling the minimum wage and forcing businesses to provide more paid sick leave, while the Biden administration is using the pandemic as part of its justification for overhauling immigration toward eventual amnesty for undocumented migrants. Meanwhile, the left-leaning Brookings Institution has successfully persuaded the federal government to allocate more money to child care programs in the name of pandemic sa...