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3 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Our writers are fanned out across the country. Follow @Marcia_Brown9 with canvassers in Philadelphia:
And @brittanyagibson is headed to Savannah, GA, to check out the energy at the polls there. She'll be in South Carolina this evening.
ICYMI here's Brittany's piece on Jaime Harrison and the infrastructure he's building in South Carolina. prospect.org/politics/jaime…
And @rkuttnerwrites today on Florida, with its likely early vote count that could prove decisive for a quick wrap on the election.

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19 Oct
Some choice passages from today's pieces released today from our family care issue (prospect.org/familycare):
"Every four years, Republicans and Democrats spar over which party will do more for working families... When it comes to helping people care for family members, though, the country is failing." prospect.org/familycare/why…
"We have a system where there is high demand for a highly valuable service, but in which the financial benefits flow not to the ones providing the service, but rather to the ones purchasing it." -@janellecj prospect.org/familycare/the…
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19 Oct
This is it! All this week, we will be running our special issue at @theprospect on family care: the current crisis and how we can fix it with a universal social insurance system. All of the stories can be found at prospect.org/familycare.
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Why do this now, two weeks before the election? Why during one of the busiest news periods in history are we devoting ourselves to covering the topic of family care? Because it intersects with everything that's been happening in 2020.
Family care—early childhood care and education, paid family and medical leave, & long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities—has been in crisis in the U.S. for a long time. But the pandemic has brought it to a head, as Tasmiha Khan writes: prospect.org/familycare/how…
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14 Oct
More important than living in the "take the deal" past is what can happen between now and February to mitigate the damage. There are a few options:
1- It's beyond clear that the Fed needs to dispense with its reticence and use Section 14(2) authority to distribute short-term, endlessly rolled-over debt to cities and states prospect.org/coronavirus/un…
2- A Biden transition can use a kind of "forward guidance" to detail explicitly what relief will be passed ASAP in the new Congress & create certainty. They should lean on banks to advance short-term, 0-interest advances on individual relief. Long shot but worth a try.
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8 Oct
I guess I missed this story when it came out but I lived this settlement fight and reported on it for 5 years and wrote a book about it, and I haven't found a single correct fact in here. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Against my better judgment I'll give an example. One scene says Eric Schneiderman got to be in the First Lady's box at the State of the Union & head of the mortgage fraud task force, because Harris turned it down. The text says Harris was in a hotel room, but not where.
Harris' hotel room was in *DC*, and she was there because SHE WANTED TO BE CHOSEN for the position Schneiderman got. There was a back and forth between the two, jockeying for position. Why else would she be in a hotel room and not at home?
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7 Oct
Here's our lineup at @theprospect today (with 1 to come):

A long piece from @rkuttnerwrites about Biden's choices on trade and China, with some intelligence on who might be the next US trade rep prospect.org/economy/where-…
Biden has laid out a plan for economic nationalism that is unable to be carried out under the current global trade regime. What will he do about that? Who will run this policy?

prospect.org/economy/where-…
Interesting that Gary Gensler is getting mentioned for USTR in a Biden administration prospect.org/economy/where-…
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6 Oct
Dude should have thought of that before he put Section 230 in a trade deal so now it can't be repealed or easily changed by him or anyone prospect.org/power/section-…
And every idiot dittohead screaming about social media bias should know that their guy Trump etched Section 230 into stone through the very globalist tactics he spent his 2016 campaign decrying
I don't like how Section 230 allows platforms to, for example, circumvent consumer product safety laws. But the Covid-infected moron running the country made this impossible to fix prospect.org/power/right-wa…
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