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Hospitals are still required to report COVID-19 data to the state even as the Trump Administration tries to switch public data reporting away from the CDC and to a private contractor through a no-bid deal.
A recent study of unemployment numbers ranked all U.S. states in their recovery from COVID-19. States have made progress, but the nation will need months, if not years, to fully recover from this economic crisis.
Who was the man who sculpted the controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Museum of Natural History? He was no racist, but the messages of his famous figures have become problematic.
The city is working to create more opportunities for economic security and success for small businesses.
Washington's wrangling over the politics of public education will put our kids and communities at risk unless politicians face up to fiscal and physical realities. They need to get it done now.
Mike Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame and former computer scientist for the National Security Agency, commenting on the Twitter hacking of several famous people and companies’ accounts on Wednesday. Many officials are concerned at how the hackers gained such widespread access to the numerous accounts. (NPR — July 15, 2020)
The number of people who were released from state and federal prisons between March and June, amounting to 8 percent of the nation’s total prison population. States have been releasing some inmates early in an effort to decrease the risk of spreading COVID-19 among those incarcerated and the staff.
Mitch McConnell is expected to introduce new legislation next week for another relief package that would include a second round of stimulus checks for Americans. But they might not be as generous as the first round.
Attorneys across the state have expressed their worries over the Garden State’s decision to use virtual grand juries amid the pandemic. “The sanctimony of the criminal justice system is under attack.”
Last year, San Diego pushed back against the streetlight cameras the city had installed with concerns about privacy. Now, the city has proposed ordinances for governing current and future surveillance technology.
Gov. Justice was asked to use a ‘cautious’ spending approach when it came to the $1.25 billion that the state received after he announced plans to devote $100 million of the COVID-19 funds towards highway repairs.
A recent torrent of disinformation seems to have inflamed some of the civil unrest inspired by the police killing of George Floyd. Much of the disinformation was "anti-government" in nature, a new report suggests.
As Black Lives Matter protests collide with anxiety about COVID-19’s disproportionate Black death toll and concerns about a coming wave of evictions, will these overlapping crises accelerate California’s Black exodus?
With its one customer — a huge coal-fired plant — shut down, the freight railroad has gone out of business and its tracks lie unused. But some on the reservation hope to revive train service for tourists.
It's a health risk at any time and one that disproportionately affects Black individuals and families. During a pandemic, it's an unacceptable burden. Legislators are looking at ways to better cope with the problem.
Brian Lee, director of Families for Better Care, a nursing home advocacy group, said of the lack of testing at long-term care facilities. While residents and staff at these facilities make up almost 45 percent of the coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S., only seven states have required constant testing of residents and staff. (PEW — July 15, 2020)
The cost of presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s clean energy and economic recovery plan that he released on July 14. One of the plan’s goals is to stop all negative emissions from U.S. power plants by 2035.
The coronavirus pandemic has emphasized how much of Pennsylvania still lacks access to high-speed Internet. Lawmakers are making broadband access a priority and view it as an investment in the state’s well-being.
As unemployment numbers rise, many newly uninsured Wisconsinites are turning to free clinics for COVID-19 care. But some clinics don’t have the technology to provide telemedicine and volunteers are wary of exposure.
In some states, COVID-19 is classified as “ordinary disease of life,” like the flu, and is not covered by workers’ compensation. If it were covered, the health system could owe up to $16 billion in workers’ comp nationally.
In May, 17 counties submitted requests to reopen even though they lacked the minimum number of contact tracers per 100,000 people. California reopened anyway, and now the tracers are overwhelmed and outnumbered.
Less than 10 percent of police responses involve a violent crime. Rethinking policing involves more than how police behave on the job. Often, they may not be the right people to answer calls of distress.
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Coordination and consistency are key in getting the message out to citizens in times of crisis.
Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president of global affairs, said of the tech company’s decision to fund 100,000 need-based scholarships for the new suite of Google Career Certificates, which will offer courses in data analytics, project management and user experience design. (The Hill — July 13, 2020)
The amount that Apple has committed to housing programs, to help fund over 1,250 new Bay Area affordable housing units. The donation comes in addition to the $2.5 billion pledge the tech company made in November.
Even with the coronavirus still at large across the nation, workers continue to encourage participation in the Census. Mask-wearing, social-distance-practicing enumerators will begin surveying in Tacoma by July 23.
The Harford County Sheriff's Office has participated in this agreement since October 2016 and it endows some immigration enforcement authority to correctional deputies. But not everybody agrees with the renewal decision.
In California, Black and Latinx women have seen a 23 and 22 percent employment decline, respectively, due to COVID-19. “This is really amplifying existing inequalities, especially racial and ethnic inequities.”
Of all the ways the 21st century might wish to memorialize Roosevelt, that statue was the least representative of the whole man, his staggering achievement and his largely untarnished place in American memory.
Over a long career, Eugene Jones Jr. has led several big-city public-housing agencies. In an interview, he discusses the federal landscape, affordable housing and political accountability.
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