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Biden Was Right And The Media Was Wrong: Americans Are Starting To Feel Good About The Economy
A new survey reveals that President Biden was right and the media has been getting it wrong. Americans are warming up to the economy.
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The Media Is Failing In Reporting On Biden’s Economy
State-based news the Courier called out the New York Times on Tuesday for their vastly different headlines about the economy under two different presidents. Spot the differences, @NYTimes. pic.twitter.com/m5XQXJs3Xd — COURIER (@CourierNewsroom) August 8, 2023 Is this a fair criticism? It’s not apples to apples, as one is the headline going to their podcast and…
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Good News For Democrats As Americans Are Feeling Optimistic About The Economy And Inflation
A new consumer survey from the University of Michigan found that the American people are feeling good about the direction of the economy and inflation.
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House Democrats Save The Economy By Passing Debt Limit Bill
Speaker Kevin McCarthy needed House Democrats to save the day as more Democrats than Republicans voted for the debt limit bill.
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House MAGAs Are Losing It Because They Can’t Crash The Economy For Trump
The House Freedom Caucus held a press conference on Tuesday where they complained that the debt limit deal will prevent them from crashing the economy for Trump.
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Tick Tock: Kevin McCarthy Debt Ceiling Plan Will Send Economy Closer to Recession
The highly regarded Moody’s Analytics determined that the Republican debt ceiling plan would send the economy meaningfully closer to a recession.
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Media Blames Biden For Their Bad Reporting On The Economy
The media is blaming Biden for the fact that they overlook good economic news and obsessively focus on anything bad.
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The House Republican Plan To Take The Economy Hostage Is Already Failing
House Republicans have been planning since before they won the majority to take the economy hostage, but they are facing strong opposition from the White House.
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McCarthy Gained GOP Speaker Votes By Promising To Try To Trash The Economy
Kevin McCarthy promised that he would tie spending cuts to any deal to lift the debt ceiling, which means that he put the country on course for a possible economy-trashing default.
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The Biden Economy: ‘An Astonishing Trifecta of Good News’
Joe Biden: The President who actually made it trickle down, by doing the opposite of Reaganomics.
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Just 18 Senate Republicans Voted To Fund The Government And Not Crash The Economy
Out of all of the Senate Republicans present for the vote, just 18 of them voted to fund the government and not crash the economy before Christmas.
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Pelosi Demolishes The Myth That Democrats Aren’t Talking About The Economy
Speaker Pelosi destroying the myth that Democrats have only been talking about abortion and not the economy.
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Kevin McCarthy Admits He Plans To Blow Up The Economy Unless Social Security And Medicare Are Cut
Kevin McCarthy made it clear that if Republicans win back the House they plan to hold the debt ceiling hostage unless they get cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
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Paul Krugman Calls Out The Media’s Negativity Bias In Covering Biden’s Economy
Paul Krugman pointed out the media’s negative bias toward any bad news when covering Biden’s economy.
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Biden Economy Shows No Signs Of Weakening After Another Strong Jobs Report
The US economy added 390,000 new jobs last month, as the unemployment rate remained at 3.6%. People continue to spend and the economy is rolling along.
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Ukrainian War to Have Disproportionate Impact on U.S. Economy
Democrats must prepare their messaging now. The roots of this economic chaos were sowed in the first days of COVID and Trump’s weakening of NATO and strengthening of Putin.
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Kremlin Acknowledges That Russian Economy Has Been Dealt “Serious Blows” Because of Sanctions
The Kremlin has acknowledged that the Russian economy has been dealt “serious blows” because of sanctions that foreign governments have imposed as punishment for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move to invade Ukraine.
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Donald Trump Jr. Tries To Steal Credit From Biden For The Economy
Donald Trump Jr. claimed that all Biden had to do was continue to follow his dad’s economic policies that drove the economy into a recession.
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Bad News Republicans: The Biden Economy Is Poised For A Big Year In 2022
The Biden economy is poised for a big year in 2022, as the real economy is very strong.
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The Biden Boom Is Here As Democrats To Preside Over The Strongest Economy In Decades
Perception hasn’t caught up with reality yet, but President Biden and the Democrats are poised to oversee the biggest boom in the US economy in decades.
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Getting The Message Out: The Economy Is Far Stronger Than Most Americans Think
Democrats must simply talk about the fact that no one has ever handled the issues we face better than the current administration.
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Republicans Get Some Terrible News: The Economy Will Improve In 2022
Republican dreams of taking back Congress in 2022 are based on voter anger over a bad economy, but estimates show unemployment hitting a 50 year low and inflation dropping.
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Debt Limit Bill Will Pass Tonight As Senate GOP Has Found 10 Votes In Favor Of Not Blowing Up The Economy
It took almost all day, but Senate Republicans have announced that they managed to find ten members of their caucus who thought destroying the economy was a bad idea.
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Ted Cruz Plans To Nuke The Economy By Blocking Debt Limit Hike
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is planning to object to a unanimous consent request that would allow Democrats to raise the debt limit with no Republican votes.
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Democrats To Save The US Economy Alone As Schumer Moves For Majority Vote On Debt Limit
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will seek to pass an increase of the debt limit by a majority vote on Tuesday afternoon.
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Senate Republicans Carry Out Act Of Political Terrorism And Vote To Blow Up The US Economy
In an act of political terrorism, Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans unanimously voted in favor of blowing up the US economy.
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Mitch McConnell To Use The Filibuster To Blow Up The Economy With Default
Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Mitch McConnell, plan to use the filibuster to block Democrats from preventing a default.
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Republican Treasury Secretaries Are Trying To Talk Mitch McConnell Out Of Destroying The Economy
Former Republican Treasury Secretaries have been meeting with Mitch McConnell to convince him that destroying the US economy is a really bad move.
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Democrats Hammer Mitch McConnell For Sabotaging The Economy To Stop Joe Biden
Senate Democrats are calling out Mitch McConnell for using debt ceiling sabotage to stop President Biden.
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Bad News For Republicans: Biden Mandate To Increase Vaccinations And Grow The Economy
A new forecast by Goldman Sachs of the impact of President Biden’s vaccine mandate found that vaccinations will increase by 12 million and the economy will grow.
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Opinion: On Labor Day, Let’s Recognize that Our Market Economy Does Not Properly Value Labor
The chief value-driving economic behavior, the U.S. economy itself, is not the meeting of human need, and thus it is designed to fail when it comes to working for Americans’ collective well-being.
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Economist Paul Krugman Argues That DeSantis is Hurting His State’s Economy With his Lax Attitude Towards COVID
Ron DeSantis has spent much of the last year congratulating himself on how he has handled COVID-19. The Florida governor has leaned in hard to the culture war aspect of the pandemic. Not only has he made a huge deal of fighting against mask mandates, he went as far as fundraising off shirts that slammed…
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Booming Economy Proves Biden Right And Republicans Wrong On Unemployment Benefits
Biden’s booming economy and the latest jobs report show that expanded unemployment benefits don’t stop people from working.
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Biden Leads The G7 In Taking Steps To Improve The World Economy
At the top of the docket for the president was a “Building Back Better†plan for the world. This is Biden’s first G7 summit as president.
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U.S. Economy Continues to Recover, Adding 559,000 Jobs in May
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employers added 559,000Â workers during the month of May, continuing the nation’s economic recovery. “In May, the unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage point to 5.8 percent, and the number of unemployed persons fell by 496,000 to 9.3 million. These measures are down considerably from their recent highs…
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Jobless Claims Drop To New Low As Biden Economy Continues To Strengthen
The number of jobless claimed reached a new pandemic low as fewer people are losing their jobs and more job openings are being filled.
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The Trick to Getting the Economy Roaring Again? Childcare.
The pandemic has made all-too-clear that childcare is also a critical enabler of work. Especially for American women. And we don’t have nearly enough of it.
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Biden Set To Blow Trump’s Economy Out The Water With Biggest Growth Since 1984
President Biden is set to oversee an economy that will grow faster than any since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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WATCH: Fox’s Bartiromo Argues The Best Way to Stimulate the Economy is More Tax Cuts For the Wealthy
Donald Trump was unlike any politician that America had ever seen. When he took office, though, he made a move that was very traditionally Republican. Trump passed a major tax cut for the wealthy. Like Ronald Reagan and the Bushes before him, Trump said that the cuts would stimulate the economy and benefit the average…
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Biden Poised For Massive Success As 2021 Economic Growth Expected To Smash Trump’s Economy
Goldman Sachs projects that half of Americans will be vaccinated by May and that economic growth for 2021 will hit 7%.
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Biden’s COVID Rescue Package Would Restore The Economy By Summer
A new analysis finds that President Joe Biden’s COVID rescue package would lift the economy back to pre-pandemic levels by summer.
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Trump Shrunk The US Economy The Most Since 1946
Trump’s botched handling of the coronavirus pandemic led the US economy to shrink the most that it has since 1946.
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Opinion: A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary Reveals Trump’s Malignant Politics, Failure of Economy
A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, by Nurse T with Timothy Sheard. New York: Hardball Press, 2020. 143 pp. Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during this pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón, “Something to Read, 
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Report: U.S. Economy Only Added 245,000 Jobs in November as Lawmakers Continue Work on Stimulus Deal
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that the United States economy added just 245,000 jobs in November on a seasonally adjusted basis, 224,000 fewer jobs than had been projected. Although November’s unemployment rate (6.7%) is lower than October’s unemployment rate (6.9%) this is because more workers left the workforce in November. Of those…
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Steve Mnuchin Is Trying To Burn The Economy Down Before Biden Takes Office
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced that he is ending emergency lending programs before Biden takes office in a bid to start an economic crisis. The New York Times reported: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he does not plan to extend several key emergency lending programs beyond the end of the year and asked the Federal…
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Opinion: A Full View of the Economy Reveals Trump’s Betrayal of Americans
Polling indicates that Americans still give Donald Trump an edge over Joe Biden when it comes to their faith in either candidate to manage the economy. While it’s true that, according to a late-August Reuters/Ipsos poll, Trump’s approval rating on the economy has dipped 14% since March, putting him in negative territory with 47% approving…
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Opinion: Why The Coronavirus Is Not An Excuse For Trump’s Failing Economy
The narrative Trump and his Republican allies have been weaving about his managing of the U.S. economy is that he had presided over, if not himself built, the strongest economy in the nation’s history and that it was only slowed by the coronavirus outbreak, which was not his fault. He can’t be held responsible for…
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What The Coronavirus Teaches, And What Trump Won’t Learn, About A Free-Market Economy
Republicans continue to block legislation to provide relief to tens of millions of Americans as well as the state and local governments that provide services and employment to them. Their hand-wringing, it seems, is rooted in the worry that providing relief, such as extending enhanced unemployment benefits, will eliminate any incentive, or coercion, for people…
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Tom Cotton’s 1619 Project Legislation Highlights Ignorance Of Political Economy and History
As is now widely known, the Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton recently proposed legislation that would deny federal funding to schools that in any way used the The New York Times controversial 1619 project in its curriculum. This series in The New York Times, of course, explores the history of the United States through the…
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Trump Adviser Crumbles When Ari Melber Shows Him Proof That Obama Built A Stronger Economy
Donald Trump’s pre-pandemic economy wasn’t even as strong as Barack Obama’s was, let alone the greatest in American history.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci: We Can’t “Balance Lives Against the Economy” in Coronavirus Fight
Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that saving lives must be the priority while battling Covid-19. The nation’s top infectious disease expert explained that the public’s health had to come first. Fauci gave an interview to the Journal of the American Medical Association on Thursday as deaths from Coronavirus approached 130,000. The interview was uploaded to YouTube….
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Trump’s Economy Approval Rating Drops Below 50% For The First Time In 3 Years
More and more Americans are losing confidence in President Donald Trump’s ability to handle the economy, according to the latest Gallup poll that found his economic approval rating has dropped to 47 percent in June, a 16-point decrease from numbers reported at the beginning of the year. The poll was the first to show an…
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Trump Allies Recruiting “Extremely Pro-Trump” Doctors to Advocate Reopening Economy
According to an Associated Press report, President Donald Trump’s allies are recruiting “extremely pro-Trump†doctors to go on television and advocate reopening the national economy as speedily as possible. This would be “without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to slow the spread of the new…
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Comedian Patton Oswalt: Fox News’ Calls to Reopen Economy Are “The Height of Evil”
Patton Oswalt has slammed Fox News for its attacks on Coronavirus lockdown measures. The actor and comedian argued that network personalities should practice what they preach. Oswalt spoke to The Daily Beast‘s “Last Laugh” podcast about his upcoming Netflix special but he also discussed Coronavirus. He took aim at the conservative network. Oswalt said it was…
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Jared Kushner Says Trump Will Still Run On The Economy Even Though He Broke It
Donald Trump’s incompetence and failed leadership has destroyed the same economy that former Vice President Joe Biden once helped save.
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Fox News Analyst: Trump’s “Failure of Leadership” Allowed Coronavirus “To Do Greater Damage” To Economy
Writing in an op-ed for The Hill, journalist and Fox News political analyst Juan Williams says President Donald Trump’s “failure of leadership” allowed the coronavirus “to do greater damage to the economy than it otherwise would.” “Yet an upbeat Vice President Pence is still selling the illusion that the nation will be done with the…
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Seth Meyers Says Trump is “Incapable of Empathy” and Will Let Americans Die to Reopen the Economy
Late Night host Seth Meyers slammed President Donald Trump over his insistence that the national economy reopen and his push for states to lift their stay-at-home orders, saying that his lack of empathy compels him to let Americans die to return to business as usual. “You would think that putting aside his venality, his narcissism,…
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The Trump Administration Shelved the CDC’s Guide to Reopening the National Economy
An exclusive report from The Associated Press reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration shelved a 17-page report by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) team titled “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again Framework.” The report, the AP notes, “was researched and written to help faith leaders, business owners, educators and state…
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Texas Governor Admitted Reopening Economy Would Spread Coronavirus During Private Call with Lawmakers
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) admitted during a private call with lawmakers that reopening the economy would spread the coronavirus even as he publicly announced that he would end an executive stay-at-home order. The news was first reported by The Daily Beast; a spokesperson for Abbott confirmed the call is authentic. “How do we know reopening businesses won’t…
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Trump Says Sweden is Paying “Heavily” for Not Locking Down Despite Wanting to Reopen American Economy
President Donald Trump criticized Sweden’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, saying the Scandinavian nation is paying “heavily” for allowing many businesses to remain open. Sweden has lost more citizens to the pandemic than its neighbors and the death rate sits at 22 per 100,000 people, a number that is three times higher than Denmark’s…
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Majority Of Americans Want Biden Running Virus Response And Economy
A majority of Americans want Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden running the US economy and the federal coronavirus response.
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U.S. Economy Shrinks 4.8 Percent in the First Quarter of 2020
According to data released by the Department of Commerce, the United States economy shrunk 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic forced millions of Americans out of work. The decline is the first quarter of negative GDP growth for the U.S. since the same period in 2014 and was driven…
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Joe Biden: Trump Should Be ‘Working Around the Clock’ as the Economy ‘Sheds Millions of Jobs’
Joe Biden thinks the President should be working 24/7 as the U.S. unemployment rate continues to rise. The former vice president accused Donald Trump of doing nothing. Unemployment claims have risen to around 26.5 million following reports today that a further 4.4 million people filed for assistance. This figure is unprecedented. Biden said in a…
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Stacey Abrams: Brian Kemp’s Decision to Open Georgia’s Economy Has “No Logic”
Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate who lost to Governor Brian Kemp (R) following a contentious election riddled with accusations of voter fraud, says there is “no logic” to her former opponent’s decision to open the economy. “There is no logic and that’s part of the problem,” Abrams told View co-host Ana Navarro. “We only shut…
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Trump’s “Great” Economy Takes Another Hit as Unemployment Claims Hit 26 Million
The Department of Labor announced that unemployment claims in the United States have continued to spike, with 4.4 million new filings in the last week, an unprecedented amount. This brings the total number of unemployment claims to 26.4 million, more than the 2008 financial crisis. The news comes as President Donald Trump announced he would…
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Rachel Maddow Busts MAGA Myth That Americans Are Willing To Risk Their Lives For The Economy
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow busted the MAGA myth that the American people are just itching to risk their lives to reopen the economy.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Goes Full Trump Death Cult And Says The Economy Is More Important Than Living
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is spreading more of Trump’s death cult mentality as he proclaimed that the economy is more important than living.
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Dr. Fauci on Social Distancing Protests: Reopening the Economy Too Soon Will ‘Backfire’
Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that reopening the country prematurely will backfire. He was responding to recent protests against social distancing measures in some states. Fauci spoke to Good Morning America‘s George Stephanopoulos on Monday. He didn’t criticize the protests directly but his message to those opposed to Coronavirus restrictions was clear. “Clearly this is something that…
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Opinion: Most Americans Don’t Want To ‘Reopen’ The Economy The Way Trump Is Moving Us Toward Doing
Americans don’t trust President Donald Trump when it comes to what he says about the coronavirus crisis. And why should they? Day after day, he lies to us. Week after week, he makes grandiose promises (“Anybody that wants a test can get a test, that’s what the bottom line is”) then backs away from them…
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Opinion:The GOP’s False Choice between Saving Lives and Saving the Economy Is a Failure of the Imagination
The impatient discussion about when America can “re-open†for business has not only often proceeded, on the Republican side, with willful ignorance of informed medical perspectives, but it has also tended to pose a dangerously ignorant and unimaginative false choice to Americans: either save lives or save our economy and way of life. Republican Representative…
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Cuomo Hires Consultants to Develop “Trump Proof” Plan So Economy Can Reopen on New York’s Terms
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has hired McKinsey & Company to produce “models on testing, infections and other key data points that will underpin decisions on how and when to reopen the region’s economy” according to government sources who spoke to Reuters. “McKinsey, like so many other businesses, is committed to supporting the response to the…
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Republican Senator John Kennedy: Lift Coronavirus Restrictions or “The World Economy Collapses”
A Republican senator thinks the U.S. economy must be reopened despite the threat of Covid-19. Louisiana’s John Kennedy accepted this would cause the virus to spread even further. Kennedy spoke to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Wednesday and argued that the U.S. must ease Coronavirus containment measures. He said the making the decision was like…
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Trump-Backing Congressman Says He’d Rather See More Americans Die Than Keep Economy Closed
A pro-Trump Republican congressman said on Tuesday that he would rather see more Americans die than keep the U.S. economy shut down.
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Trump In Total Collapse As 73% Say The Economy Is Not Good/Poor
The American people are feeling the economic pain caused by President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response as 73% rate the economy as not good or poor.
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Trump Falsely Claims He Has The Power To Reopen The Economy
Trump falsely claimed that he has the power to end shutdowns and reopen the economy, but the power rests with governors and local officials.
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Opinion: The People Must Be Bailed Out First to Really Save the Economy
Nearly one third of Americans who rent their homes, or 13. 4 million people, did not pay their rent between April 1 and April 5 this month. Requests from homeowners to delay making their monthly mortgage payments surged by over 2,000 percent between March 16 and March 30. And we know why, of course. Many…
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Critics Slam Trump’s Plan for an “Opening Our Country Council” to Reopen The Economy
Earlier today, President Donald Trump announced he would champion” a new “Opening Our Country Council” and name someone to chair it, the latest move in his plan to reopen the economy as the nation grapples with the novel coronavirus. The council will likely include a group of business leaders, doctors, governors, and other professionals. It…
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Trump Tells Starving People At Food Banks How Great The Economy Was
Trump offered a humiliating response when he was asked what he would tell people who are standing in line for food at food banks because of job losses.
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Trump Tells 16 Million Unemployed Americans That The Economy Is Doing ‘Very Well’
As millions of Americans file for unemployment, Donald Trump said it’s his belief that the economy is in pretty good shape.
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Trump Wants To Put Jared And Ivanka On Panel To Revive The Economy
Trump wants to put his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and his son in law Jared Kushner on a White House panel that will be in charge of reviving the US economy.
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Trump Melts Down During Saturday Coronavirus Briefing And Begs For The Economy To Reopen
Trump had a meltdown at the Saturday coronavirus briefing, and in between attacking the media and governors, pleaded for the economy to “reopen.”
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Rush Limbaugh Claims Stay-at-Home Orders Are Destroying Economy “Under Guise” of Saving Lives
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed stay-at-home orders come at the expense of wrecking the economy in a monologue on his show. “Are we just going to sit by and watch $22 trillion — that’s the value, that’s the sum total of the GDP, that’s the U.S. economy — are we just going to sit…
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Trump Changed His Mind on Reopening the Economy After Polls Showed It Could Hurt His Reelection Chances
The New York Times reports that President Donald Trump only changed his mind on reopening the economy in time for Easter after seeing polls that indicated doing so would damage his chances at reelection. Indeed, a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that 59 percent of Americans think that Easter, which falls on April 12, would…
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Opinion: Coronavirus Questions Values of American Economy Itself, as well as Trump’s
When Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker tried to purchase the protective gear necessary for healthcare workers in his state, the problem wasn’t necessarily that the inventories of the equipment he sought didn’t exist. Rather, the obstacle he faced was that the companies warehousing these supplies were sitting on them, letting a bidding war play out between…
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Joe Biden Launches ‘Emergency Action Plan’ to Save the U.S. Economy
Former Vice President Joe Biden has unveiled his ‘emergency action plan to save the economy.’ The plan contains a series of economic and health measures. The Democratic presidential candidate also took aim at President Donald’s response to the Covid-19 global pandemic. “Joe Biden knows that no economic strategy will work if we don’t stop the…
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Trump Says “LameStream Media” Wants to Hurt His Reelection Chances by Not Reopening Economy
President Donald Trump accused media outlets of throwing a wrench in his proposal to have the economy up and running by Easter, saying they’re doing so to hurt his chances at reelection. “The LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the…
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Biden Says Trump’s Goal to Reopen the Economy by Easter Could Be “Catastrophic”
Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden has come out against President Donald Trump’s proposal to have the economy up and running by Easter. “Now he’s suggesting he wants to get the country back opened by Easter,†Biden said during a video conference with reporters. “It would be a catastrophic thing to do for our people and…
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In Open Letter, 32 Prominent Economists Say Saving Lives Would Save The Economy Trump Is Trying to Reopen
President Donald Trump’s controversial assurance that the national economy would be up and running again by Easter has received significant criticism from both sides of the political aisle as well as from health experts who argue that loosening social distancing would result in even more deaths and greater economic turmoil. Now, 32 prominent economists, including…
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Experts Say Trump is Wrong About Increased Suicides Due To Closed Economy
If you feel like you are in a crisis situation, and need help or someone to talk to, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). One of the reasons why President Donald Trump wants to end social distancing practices set up in place to deal with the coronavirus pandemic is to stave off…
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Republicans Rebel Against Trump’s Plan To Open The Economy By Easter
Trump says that he wants to reopen the economy by Easter, but Republican Senators are already warning him not to do it because it will make things worse.
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Even Wall Street Is Asking Trump Not to Restart the Economy Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
President Donald Trump has courted significant controversy since announcing he will look into loosening federal guidelines for social distancing and urge businesses to reopen even as the nation grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. “Our country wasn’t built to be shut down,†Trump said during a briefing at the White House. “America will, again, and soon,…
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Says Old People In Trump’s Cult Are Willing To Die For His Economy
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said that senior citizens are willing to die from the coronavirus so that Trump can loosen restrictions on the economy.
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Trump Increasingly Believes Reopening The Economy Will Be Worth It, Even If More Americans Die
Trump increasingly believes that re-opening the economy in the midst of a pandemic will be worth it, even though it will mean more American deaths.
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Trump Trashes Doctors And Experts While Vowing To “Reopen” US Economy During Coronavirus
Trump trashed the advice of doctors and disease experts as he wants to reopen the economy while the coronavirus outbreak surges in the US.
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Trump Supports Taking Healthcare Away From 20 Million As The Economy Collapses
Trump admitted during Sunday’s coronavirus briefing that he supports the lawsuit that would kill the ACA even while the economy is collapsing.
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Opinion: Coronavirus Highlights Inhumanity and Inefficiency of For-Profit Economy
The economic culture in the United States still largely holds to the belief that private industry, guided by the pursuit of private interests and the profit motive, leads to the most efficient and effective economy. Conservatives, of course, cling to this belief on steroids, as is evident in their hallmark platform calling for small government,…
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Rep. Jim Clyburn Erupts And Says Trump Incompetence Has The Economy Facing Collapse
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) warned that Trump’s incompetent response to the coronavirus had pushed the economy to the brink of collapse.
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Coronavirus Can Teach Us the Value of a Democratic Economy Heading into November
Wise people always remind us to never let a good crisis go to waste. Wise people with evil inclinations have, of course, taken this sage advice to heart, often exploiting crises, sometimes even arguably manufacturing them, in order to achieve nefarious ends. Naomi Klein, for example, in her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise…
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People Won’t Let Larry Kudlow Forget He Insisted Coronavirus Will Have “Minimal Impact” on Economy
The coronavirus outbreak is officially a global pandemic, and policy experts around the world are expressing significant concern over how the virus, which has claimed 4,729 lives worldwide according to the most recent official count, will impact global economies. White House Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow’s old statements have come back to haunt him in…
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With 14 American Deaths Reported So Far, Trump ‘Likes’ That Coronavirus Could Be Good For The Economy, In Some Ways
President Donald Trump certainly likes to spin news headlines to create an image that is favorable to him. That’s a mighty difficult thing to do during a global outbreak in which coronavirus, or COVID-19, has affected hundreds of thousands of lives, and resulted in the deaths of thousands across the globe. Trump tried, nonetheless, on…
