Day: April 5, 2020

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Choose Lives Not Money: On a Proposed Amendment A04895 to SB 327, PN 1436

  By COVID-19, PA Economy

Originally published by KRC-PBPC here. Governor Wolf has ordered all Pennsylvanians to stay at home except when necessary to engage in “tasks essential to maintain…the health and safety of their family and household members;” to get “necessary services or supplies for themselves or their family or household members….or to those in need;” to engage in ”outdoor activities” or to “perform work providing essential products and services at life-sustaining businesses….” This order has required the closure of most businesses in the Commonwealth. And that has placed a great burden on the owners of businesses large and small as well as on the employees of those businesses. The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center has recommended, along with many others, that the Commonwealth and the federal government take many steps to help sustain businesses and their employees during this time. Both the federal and state governments have taken such steps. We will be making… Continue reading

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Tears and Rage

  By Politics

I go back and forth between tears and rage. We are witnessing the greatest failure of political leadership by one person in the history of this country and one of the greatest failures in human history. Tens of thousands of people are going to die. Our economy will suffer immensely, and the burden will fall most heavily on the most vulnerable among us. And why? Because the narcissistic moron who sits in the chair of Washington, Lincoln, and FDR has not, and still will not, prepare for the crisis and take charge of meeting it. The virus was going to affect us. But it did not have to be nearly this bad and in so many ways. Continue reading