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  1. Unsanitized: No Double Dip Recession for the Millions in Depression
    11 Nov 2020 … The pandemic has supercharged inequality. Millions of people suffering aren’t just getting the cold shoulder from Congress; they’re about to get dumped off the “COVID cliff” — a number of relief policies that expire at the end of December. Continue reading
  2. Unsanitized: Mnuchin Mothballs the Money Cannon, and I Feel Fine Treasury Secretary-designate Steve Mnuchin waits to begin a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. Mnuchin defended his record as an owner of a mortgage lender that was accused of unfair loan and foreclosure practices during the financial crisis. (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2020 … There were pretty strong hints that Republicans were disinterested in continuing the CARES Act’s Federal Reserve lending facilities after it technically expires at the end of the year. The deadline could be extended, but Treasury would have to agree to Continue reading
  3. Unsanitized: Crawling Toward a Deal on COVID Relief Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2020 … This article is adapted from Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report put out by The American Prospect. You can find the original publication here. First Response All the momentum for a year-end COVID relief deal made contact with reality yesterday, and in today’s Washington that Continue reading
  4. Here’s What Students Think Biden Needs to Do in His First 100 Days
    1 Jan 2021 … From reimagining the Postal Service to combating climate change to reforming OIRA, students across the country told us what they think Biden’s top priority should be. Continue reading
  5. Primary Favorite Pete Buttigieg Steps Forward
    12 Dec 2020 … Joe Biden continues to move forward with his administration, naming former rival Pete Buttigieg for Secretary of Transportation. Continue reading
  6. CBO Report: Obamacare Will Make Us More Free Linda Potter, left, receives a shot of H1N1 flu vaccine from a research nurse during the first of several clinical trials of a new vaccine conducted by Emory University, Mon., August 10, 2009, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)
    2 Feb 2014 … It's the real takeaway from those projections that have everyone buzzing. Continue reading
  7. David Ho: HIV Researcher David Ho
    3 Mar 2003 … Since arriving in America from Taiwan at the age of 12, Dr. David Ho has become a world-renowned scientist. His research in the fight against HIV/AIDS earned him honors as Time magazine's Man of the Year. In this program, Bill Continue reading
  8. Men in Black?
    9 Sep 2020 … Trump visited Kenosha to change the subject from coronavirus and the stumbling economy to the idea that somehow the unrest in cities is the fault of Democrats, and to hammer home his message that he will be the candidate of Continue reading
  9. The American Voter
    10 Oct 2020 … Virtually no one is suggesting that Trump could win the popular vote, and his campaign’s plan is simply to get enough Democratic votes thrown out in swing states that he can win those electoral votes and clinch the election. Never Continue reading
  10. The First Veto
    1 Jan 2021 … Congress began the new year by repassing the National Defense Authorization Act over Trump’s veto, finding the two-thirds majority it needed to override one of Trump’s vetoes for the first time. Continue reading