Pelosi tricked the House of Representatives to vote for a reduction in the new paid sick leave provision by calling the change "technical", implying there was no significant alteration.

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The US will face a big recession unless the US government starts giving money to non-rich people to make up for the decrease.

The best way to do this is with spending that will have other social benefits — spending on jobs that make an improvement. For instance, the Green New Deal.

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One corrective is needed in regard to increases in productivity: they result in increased production each year, but who gets the benefit of that increase is a political question. The rich try to keep it for themselves, and workers get it only if they fight for it and win.

PAHCF, a medical insurance company lobbying group, lobbies against anything that helps or would help Americans get medical care without going through those businesses.

It would be interesting for Americans to organize to demand that their medical insurance companies say how much money they gave to that lobbying group in 2019.

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The Norway University of Science and Technology urged students in countries with "poorly developed health services", including the US, to return home where they would get better medical care.

The university was later intimidated into deleting the reference to the US. How sad.

As for the students, I think they have no way to return home now. They are stuck.