April 22, 2021 6:12 AM By Brandon Lee
President Joe Biden called on employers to use a tax credit to provide paid time off to workers to get vaccinated and for businesses to do more to boost the inoculation effort as the U.S. seeks to get shots in more arms.
Biden touted the U.S. achieving its goal of giving 200 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days in office, while also pivoting to a new phase of the campaign by calling on businesses to make vaccination as accessible as possible. He requested all employers in the U.S. to offer full pay to workers to get a shot, and touted an incentive included in his first Covid-19 relief package that provides tax credits for workersâ wages in companies with fewer than 500 employees.
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First, on Fabian, he told Psaki if the White House would punish Florida in light of
“a report over the weekend that Governor DeSantis in Florida had been dealing with some sort of improper dealings with the supermarket chain Publix as far as distributing the vaccine.”
Psaki refused to pushback and instead not only said they were concerned, but suggested DeSantis was steering vaccines away from African-Americans as “17 percent of Florida’s population is African-American, but less than seven percent of vaccinations have gone to African-Americans.”
She then called on Doocy, who return to an earlier Fabian question that Biden never pressured MLB and after she doubled down on that spin, he brought up the