Power Up: Biden signals he s open to negotiations on minimum wage. Progressives won t be happy. Jacqueline Alemany :
“The Department of Housing and Urban Development has for years neglected to enforce its own environmental
regulations, resulting in lead poisoning of children in at least one public housing development and potentially jeopardizing residents’ health in thousands of other federally subsidized apartments near contaminated sites, according to an inspector general report obtained by The Washington Post,” our colleague Tracy Jan reports. At the White House
THE MINIMUM WAGE TEST: President Biden s road to the White House was paved in part with a pledge to increase the national minimum wage to $15 an hour. At his first official 2020 campaign event, Biden called for the hike in front of crowded union hall in Pittsburgh.
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By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune Jan. 8, 2021
More than two dozen hospitals in rural Texas, from the Panhandle to South Texas, are still waiting on doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to distribute to their front-line workers and community members, hospitals and health care advocates say.
Those that are lucky enough to be near another provider with shots available are relying on neighborly generosity encouraged but not mandated by the state to inoculate front-line workers, who are sometimes dealing with overflow patients from urban areas alongside their own coronavirus patients.
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But many small, rural providers don t have neighbors with doses to spare, leaving them waiting or scrambling to find vaccine for their most high-risk front-line health workers, even as other counties have reportedly distributed excess vaccine doses to politicians and healthy members of the public.
First Texas case of more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Harris County A sign urges resident to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hidalgo County. Dec. 7, 2020. (Source: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune) By SHANNON NAJMABADI | January 7, 2021 at 12:33 PM CST - Updated January 7 at 12:36 PM
First Texas case of more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Harris County
Jan. 7, 2021 First Texas case of more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Harris County was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans â and engages with them â about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
The first known case of a new and possibly more contagious coronavirus strain has been reported in Texas, in an adult male resident of Harris County who had no history of travel, according to the state health services department and Judge Lina Hidalgo.