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Susanne Wigforss, a Swedish citizen who lives in Stockholm, said of the coronavirus stimulus check she received due to an IRS error. Wigforss is not a “resident alien” but worked in California for several years and so receives a small Social Security payment, which is what triggered the IRS error. The U.S. government is unable to estimate how much money was erroneously spent in stimulus checks for non-eligible people. (NPR — November 30, 2020)
The number of people who traveled through airports on Sunday, the greatest number of travelers since the pandemic hit the U.S. in March. However, the numbers are still half of those who traveled a year ago.
The police department found that the Tesla Model S 85 met the performance needs of being a patrol vehicle and was cost-effective. Now the city plans to replace more patrol and city vehicles with electric options.
More than 300 medical providers and nonprofit organizations in Lackawanna County received $73.8 million in coronavirus aid, but officials say it isn’t enough to cover their losses. Many are hoping for a second round of aid.
State Auditor Pat McCarthy has criticized the employment department director for imposing constraints on the audit investigating the agency’s slow response to the state’s multimillion-dollar loss to job benefit fraud.
The California city will vote on the proposal on Tuesday and, if passed, natural gas will be banned from new commercial and high-rise residential buildings starting in August 2021.
The incoming administration’s ambitious goals of the nation becoming 100 percent clean energy and net-zero by 2050 could produce more clean energy jobs for rural Michiganders, especially for Detroit’s automobile market.
Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was removed from his position after disputing President Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The election of 1800 was the first time power was transferred from one political party to another. Hoping for a smooth transition involving prominent Founding Fathers, the country ended up with a constitutional crisis.
Coronavirus dashboards are built on a pyramid of faxes, spreadsheets and phone calls. Public health technology investments have lagged behind other data-driven systems, making real-time information impossible to come by.
Larry Rother, senior executive director of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade educational services in Chandler, Ariz., commenting on the impossible situation that schools are in during the coronavirus pandemic. (Reuters — Nov. 25, 2020)
The number of seconds between COVID-related deaths last Tuesday as the U.S. death toll reached 2,157 deaths in a single day, the highest since May.
California’s employment agency faces hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefit claims fraud as scammers and inmates have filed for and collected jobless pay.
Many are worried that the unclear and poorly executed pandemic response from the state will be only further exacerbated if Thanksgiving does, in fact, become a superspreader event.
For many rural workers in Fresno, taking unpaid time off of work to travel great distances for a COVID test isn’t feasible. And many don’t get tested because even if they have it, they can’t afford to miss work.
Elections – like Georgia's runoffs – that require majority support can sometimes be used to exclude those in the minority.
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A new book from Harvard Business Review provides policymakers with practical help on how to catch up with and adapt to rapid change in democratic capitalism at the end of a weird year.
Five democratic senators, in a letter to Facebook and Twitter, urging the social media companies to fight misinformation, particularly in Spanish, regarding the November election and the upcoming Georgia runoff. (The Hill — November 24, 2020)
The number of toilet paper rolls that an Oregon man tried to steal from a residence in Walla Walla County, Wash. The toilet paper has since been recovered.
Women continue to leave the workforce to meet childcare needs at a disproportionate rate compared to men. Experts are worried this could create greater challenges in finding work and increasing wages in the future.
There have been more than 212,000 fraudulent jobless benefits claims in the state since March 1, raising concerns about how scammers are getting personal information from so many residents.
Officials say the federal relief funds would help reduce the lack of adequate Internet connections in the far reaches of the state, but Republican lawmakers disagree with the governor that the funds can be used in time.
Well-intentioned transportation projects during the COVID-19 pandemic to slow or remove traffic from city streets tended to serve mostly wealthy, white neighborhoods, said equity activists at the CoMotion LA conference.
State lawmakers are increasingly unhappy about being sidelined, while complaining that governors have trampled civil liberties or harmed the economy. But they haven't presented a workable alternative to executive action.
Despite fears that COVID, cyberattacks and misinformation might jeopardize results, voting was smooth and secure. What contributed to this outcome, and how might lessons learned affect future elections?
Michael Daniel, president and CEO of Cyber Threat Alliance, commenting on the departures of three top cybersecurity officials in the wake of the general election. (The Hill — Nov. 22, 2020)
The proportioned drop in national public transit ridership in the second quarter of 2020 as compared to the same period the year prior. In that same period, New York’s and Chicago’s ridership declined by 87 percent, while it fell 93 percent in Washington, D.C.
Self-driving vehicle company TuSimple plans on establishing its autonomous truck hub in Fort Worth and may even send out driverless trucks without human safety operators onto routes as soon as next year.
Several Inland Northwest tribes are calling upon Congress to extend the spending deadline for coronavirus relief funds until Sept. 2021, because of costs and hardships that extend beyond Dec. 30.
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