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Weekly Unemployment Claims on Track for 21 Weeks Above 1 Million “Unemployment claims likely held steady at historically high levels last week, an indication companies continued to lay off workers nearly five months into the pandemic.”
Beset by Coronavirus, Health Authorities Brace for Flu Season “The approaching flu season threatens to overwhelm doctors and hospitals swamped by Covid-19 patients, sparking intense efforts to get people vaccinated against influenza.”
U.S. reports highest number of virus deaths in one day since mid-May “President Trump continued to press for schools to bring children into classrooms, for businesses to open and for athletes to fill stadiums.”
Trump says Postal Service needs money for mail-in voting, but he’ll keep blocking funding “Congressional Democrats urged the Postal Service not to abandon long-standing practices for election mail processing to ensure the timely delivery of ballots.”
WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO
🎧 LISTEN: The Arrest of Jimmy LaiJohn Lyons explains what the arrest of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai signals about Hong Kong.
Black mothers in New York are more likely to have life-threatening complications in childbirth
THE COMMENT
“Republicans who salivate about making her, not Biden, the focal point of the campaign should think again. Harris is surely well to the left of the Republican-leaning electorate, but it’s far from clear she is out of step with a genuine centrist. Her differences with Biden during the primary campaign on issues such as health care are easily dissolved in the name of unity. George H.W. Bush was pro-choice when he ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination in 1980, and had even criticized Reagan’s tax-cut plan as “voodoo economics.” Harris will predictably pledge fealty to Biden’s agenda and adopt the loyal sidekick role that is always the fate of the vice president.” - Henry Olsen
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THE AV ROOM