by Amy Sokolow | Jul 16, 2020 | Business, Featured
The states and federal government have fallen behind in updating decades-old technology and need to upgrade quickly to better serve the public, experts say, a point underscored by reports that millions of jobless Americans still haven’t received unemployment checks....
by Amy Sokolow | Jul 9, 2020 | Business & Tech, Coronavirus
Countries such as South Korea have curbed the coronavirus by using contact-tracing phone apps, but the U.S. has stalled in its own efforts because of privacy concerns and other hurdles. One of the biggest challenges, experts told a congressional panel this week, is...
by Amy Sokolow | Jul 2, 2020 | Politics
Female veterans called for federally funded abortions through the VA on Wednesday, reviving a decades-long debate on the subject. During the House Veterans Affairs Committee meeting of the Health and Women Veterans Task Force, Chairwoman Julia Brownley, D-Calif.,...
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by Amy Sokolow | Jun 29, 2020 | Featured, Politics
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will refocus hiring standards for the federal government on “merit” by assessing skills rather than college degrees so that more workers have a shot at the millions of federal jobs. The order states that the...
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by Amy Sokolow | Jun 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
The Trump administration is “more terrified of transparency and accountability” than the COVID-19 pandemic that has created a crisis in America’s nursing homes, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee said Thursday as doctors, nurses and family...
