President Joe Biden is due to huddle with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday to discuss his proposed $ 2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, as he faces resistance from Republicans and even some Democrats. The president’s plan would pump money into transportation, water and broadband projects, and also into home- …
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While millions of Americans have saved, spent or invested their stimulus checks, some domestic-violence survivors have found themselves deprived of the financial lifeline and often saddled with the knowledge that their abuser has the money. Now, senators and advocates are pressing the Internal Revenue Service to send replacement checks to …
Read More »How do you strike a balance between the country’s economic life and actual human life? Is putting America back to work sooner rather than later a Sisyphean task, the equivalent of rolling a rock perpetually uphill while up to 2 million people die of COVID-19? Or does the Sisyphean task …
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Senior lawmakers and members of the Trump administration early Wednesday came to an agreement on a massive stimulus measure to try to keep Americans whole as the economy shuts down due to the coronavirus. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are done. We have a deal,” White House aide Eric Ueland announced …
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