Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other top Democrats on Friday sent a letter to the United States Postal Service inspector general asking her to investigate recent operational changes within the agency.The Democrats write that they are concerned about "modifications" to USPS "staffing and policies" recently put in place by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Appointed by President Donald Trump, DeJoy is a Trump fundraiser and ally.The group, which includes Sens. Gary Peters of Michigan, T… Continue Reading
Citing the growing toll from a hidden side of the coronavirus pandemic, top Democratic lawmakers are looking to require state and federal prisons to open their books on the number of cases behind bars.Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, Patty Murray, and Cory Booker led a group introducing legislation Thursday that would require the array of agencies that administer the nation’s jails and prisons to collect and report publicly detailed information about the spread of COVID-19 in their faciliti… Continue Reading
America is in the middle of a child care meltdown.Millions of children are out of school and unlikely to return anytime soon. Day care centers are being pushed the brink of collapse. And parents are trying — and often failing — to balance care with working.None of this surprises Elizabeth Warren. The Massachusetts senator — still under consideration to be Joe Biden’s running mate — made child care a centerpiece of her presidential campaign, proposing one of the most ambitious plans in the primar… Continue Reading
ICYMI: Independent Watchdog
Agrees to Lawmakers' Request for Investigation of Postal Service Sabotage and
Reported Conflicts of Interest of Trump's Postmaster General Louis DeJoyCNN:
Exclusive: Postal service inspector general reviewing DeJoy's policy changes
and potential ethics conflictsWashington, DC - The United States Postal Service (USPS)
Inspector General has agreed to investigate all recent staffing and policy
changes put in place under former Trump megadonor and current Postmaster… Continue Reading
United States Senators Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.); Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Environment & Public
Works Committee and member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee; Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), member of the Environment and Public
Works and Judiciary Committees; and Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), Chair of the
Democratic Special Committee on the Climate Crisis and member of the Commerce,
Science, and Transportation Committee; released the following state… Continue Reading
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions, released a statement following the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's (CDC) weak and inadequate response on using its broad legal
authority to implement and enforce public health measures under the Public Health
Service Act, which gives the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)
and the CDC Director significant authority to "take measures to prev… Continue Reading
Americans stayed at home and sacrificed for months to flatten the curve
and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. That gave us time to take the steps
needed to address the pandemic — but President Trump squandered it, refusing to
issue national stay-at-home guidelines, failing to set up a national testing
operation and fumbling production of personal protective equipment. Now,
Congress must again act as this continues to spiral out of control.Those who frame the debate as one of health ver… Continue Reading
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia proclaims his department is doing
right by retirees by making it harder to invest with environmental, social and
governance (ESG) considerations in mind (“Retirees’ Security Trumps
Other Social Goals,” op-ed, June 24). Mr. Scalia claims retirement
advisers shouldn’t consider these factors because “retirees’ security trumps
other social goals.” Mr. Scalia overlooks that ESG funds routinely outperform other
offerings and ignores well-documented economic risks fr… Continue Reading
Cuando los grandes bancos y las compañías hipotecarias colapsaron
nuestra economía en 2008, los grandes ejecutivos de Wall Street obtuvieron los
rescates de los contribuyentes del gobierno federal, mientras que los
trabajadores se quedaron estancados con la factura. Y para las comunidades de
color ya vulnerables, la recesión fue aún peor.Las comunidades latinas fueron algunas de las más afectadas, según
un estudio del Pew Research Center
que encontró que la economía de estos hogares cayó u… Continue Reading
