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As Joblessness Soars, Paycheck Protection Program Needs More Money, Fast
An additional 5.2 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total number of workers who have lost their jobs over the past four weeks to 22 million. That puts the unemployment rate at about 15.5%. Hopefully, many of these people will be able to go back to work once society starts returning… -
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Can the President Adjourn Congress and Make Appointments Without Senate Confirmation?
President Donald Trump expressed frustration Wednesday that the Senate has not confirmed his pending nominees to various posts. “The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty that the American people cannot afford during this crisis,” Trump told reporters. The president warned that if the House does… -
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California Offers $125 Million in Coronavirus Assistance to Illegal Aliens
California will dole out $125 million in coronavirus assistance to illegal aliens living in the state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press briefing Wednesday. The announced disaster relief assistance program is a public-private partnership with $75 million in funds being covered by taxpayers and another $50 million by philanthropic donations. “California is the most diverse state in… -
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WHO Chief Said Coronavirus Could Be ‘Controlled Easily’ and Praised Xi’s ‘Personal Leadership’
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a speech in early February that the spread of the coronavirus outside China could be “controlled easily,” thanks, in part, to the Chinese government’s efforts to contain the virus. Tedros made the claim during a speech before the WHO executive board on Feb. 3, a week after he… -
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How COVID-19 Exacerbates Lebanon’s Mounting Economic, Political Woes
Lebanon—already crippled by overlapping political, economic, and regional crises—faces catastrophic consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic. The worsening public health crisis has magnified Lebanon’s severe economic, fiscal, and foreign debt problems and has undermined efforts to address other critical issues, such as corruption, sectarian tensions, and poor governance. Even worse, the pandemic is likely to exacerbate… -
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Kazakhstan’s Investment in Economic Freedom Pays Dividends
Kazakhstan recorded the fifth-largest gain in economic freedom of any country in the world over the past year, according to The Heritage Foundation’s 2020 Index of Economic Freedom. The country’s score (69.6 on a 0-100 point scale) puts it on the threshold of earning the index’s coveted “mostly free” designation. Ranked as having the 39th-freest… -
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What It’s Like to Be a First Responder During COVID-19
For many of us, our view of COVID-19 is through a screen. We watch the nightly news, or read articles and reports on a laptop, or catch the headlines scrolling through Twitter. But the brave men and women on the front lines of public safety and health care have quite a different view, one that… -
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We Are Fast Approaching COVID-19 Gut-Check Time
We are a few days away from a rendezvous with some tough conclusions about COVID-19. A number of concurrent developments are coming to a head. Most will bring light where so far there was only heat. Greater information about the new coronavirus might cause as much acrimony as conciliation. Some experts will be discredited, others… -
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Problematic Women: Saving Lives and Livelihoods of Equal Importance in COVID-19 Fight
This week on “Problematic Women,” we talk with health care economist and National Coronavirus Recovery Commission member Gail Wilensky about how we can save both American lives and livelihoods during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Plus, Heritage Foundation legal fellow Elizabeth Slattery joins us to discuss religious liberty, as some churches are still trying to meet… -
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UK’s Government-Run Health Care Struggles to Combat Coronavirus
Tim Evans, a professor of business and political economy at Middlesex University London, joins The Daily Signal Podcast today to talk about the impact of the coronavirus in England. Evans addresses how nationalized health care has affected the response and the great economic challenges and opportunities that are now reality amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We… -
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Trump Set to Lay Out Plan for Reopening America
President Donald Trump intends to announce guidelines Thursday for states to “reopen” as the nation makes progress against the coronavirus pandemic. “The data suggests that nationwide we have passed the peak on new [COVID-19] cases. Hopefully, that will continue,” Trump said Wednesday evening in the Rose Garden at the White House. “These encouraging developments have… -
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On 4 Fronts, How China Quietly Infiltrates American Life
As the world continues to battle the terrible COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan, China, it also must battle the lack of information or outright disinformation coming from the government where the new coronavirus originated. If it wasn’t already clear before the coronavirus outbreak, China is particularly aggressive in how it tries to control the… -
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Illegal Immigrants in Los Angeles Can Apply for Pre-Paid Debit Cards
Los Angeles will be doling out pre-paid debit cards to residents who have faced economic hardship due to the coronavirus lockdown, and living in the country illegally won’t disqualify you from getting the cash. Los Angeles officials have begun accepting applications for a no-fee debit card that provides cash to residents who were already living… -
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How Best to Leverage Trump’s Halt to WHO Funding Over COVID-19 Missteps
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is halting funding to the World Health Organization while his administration conducts a review of the U.N. entity’s mismanagement of the response to COVID-19. The president is correct in noting that, had China been more transparent and cooperative, many lives could have been saved and economic damage avoided,… -
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Free Market Group Calls on California, 4 Other States to Suspend Government Union Dues
If elected officials were to suspend the deduction of union dues from the paychecks of public-sector employees for three months, they could pump tens of millions of dollars back into the wallets of workers who are compelled to stay home, according to a free market think tank’s analysis of government records. The savings would be… -
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The Welcome Rise of Homeschooling
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced public schools will be closed for the rest of the academic year due to the new coronavirus. More mayors and governors will likely make similar announcements, if they have not already done so. Rather than look upon this as a negative, I suspect some parents are… -
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The Health and Economic Crisis Created by COVID-19
Join me as I talk with economist Steve Moore and Jay Richards about the health and economic crisis created by the coronavirus, and how to respond without all of our freedoms and civil liberties being trampled. We explore the many policy proposals driven by partisan politics, China’s role, the World Health Organization, and the left’s… -
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Canada’s Government-Run Health Care Buckles Under COVID-19
In an editorial last week, the Los Angeles Times declared it conventional wisdom that COVID-19 proves Bernie Sanders was right about “Medicare for All,” because with universal health coverage, the government wouldn’t have to send emergency aid to “hospitals and state health programs.” This assertion is completely false, however, and we know because billions in… -
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Woodrow Wilson’s Strange Silence on Flu Epidemic During Great War
The last time the United States faced a worldwide pandemic—the “Spanish flu” of 1918 and 1919—cities rolled up the sidewalks, closed theaters, and shuttered saloons. Firemen, policemen, nurses, and panicked citizens covered their faces with gauze masks. The virulent influenza emerged in the last year of World War I, incubated in American army camps and… -
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Gov. Newsom Reveals 6 Things He Wants to See Before California Reopens After Virus Lockdown
Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed a list of six things he wants to see before the Democratic governor considers reopening California following a spate of lockdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic. Newsom laid out his “roadmap to recovery” over the virus during a news conference Tuesday, which includes a list of factors he will consider before reopening the state….