McConnell now says set aside the liability shield and also extra money for state and local governments until next year
this would be a grand non-bargain!
unemployment insurance and payroll protection would remain
on the one hand, states have lost much tax revenue because coronavirus is hurting economic activity.
on the other, there is no "tidal wave" of coronavirus lawsuits 🤔
Dems aren't into this new idea at all and everything's still a mess while that bipartisan gang continues their secret scheming huffpost.com/entry/coronavi…
Pelosi: “Leader McConnell's efforts to undermine good-faith, bipartisan negotiations are appalling.”
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McConnell’s liability proposal would require plaintiffs to prove the defendant willfully exposed them to illness and list all their contacts the 14 days before symptom onset before a trial could start m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
Companies could sue people for sending letters interpreted as legal threats over coronavirus exposure and US attorneys could prosecute them
Public Citizen's @ragregg says it would squelch suits like the one against Tyson Foods.
“The procedural hurdles would make it nearly impossible to bring a lawsuit and the substantive changes to the law would create an almost insurmountable difficulties in proving their case."
The White House is reviewing a possible major change to the way Social Security evaluates whether someone is disabled reginfo.gov/public/do/eAge…
I got an outline of this proposal earlier this year. Even if your disabilities made it impossible to work 40 hours per week, you could be denied benefits if you could sit at a desk part time huffpost.com/entry/trump-di…
The proposed regulation is still early in the process and there is no way they could finalize it before Biden takes office
It seems like this is telling states to construct an entirely new wage replacement program that would operate in tandem with their current unemployment programs? [tugs collar] whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
States begged and pleaded with Congress not to make them adjust dollar amounts on benefits, saying it would take weeks or months to implement such changes.
Now they’re being asked to create what appears to be a new payment system from scratch.
In 2011. Florida Republicans lead by now-senator Rick Scott endeavored to create the worst, most unresponsive and least generous unemployment insurance system in the country.
Among the many changes, they required new claimants to take a little math and reading test.
One of the questions: “What relationships can be shown when using multiple graphics with either positive or negative numbers?” huffpost.com/entry/florida-…
They succeeded in driving down the percentage of unemployed receiving benefits from just over 30% to just under 10% huffpost.com/entry/the-next…