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  How Climate Migration Will Reshape America https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/climate-crisis-migration-america.html?smid=tw-share Basic Income Experiments Around the World https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-basic-income-experiments-world/ Rarefied air: Taking a healthy breath is now a luxury in California https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/18/wildfires-climate-wealth-gap-california/ Trump announces aid package for Puerto Rico in a campaign year reversal Democrats call brazenly political https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-puerto-rico-election/2020/09/18/00ee5a2a-f9ba-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html Postal Service feared Trump’s rhetoric could cost it billions in Amazon business, documents reveal https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/18/trump-amazon-postal-service/ What a WeChat ban could mean for millions of U.S. users https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/18/wechat-ban-faq/ Task force says...

Newly revealed USPS documents show an agency struggling to manage Trump, Amazon and the pandemic https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/ Six months, and a grim milestone: 26th-straight week of record-level unemployment claims https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/17/new-unemployment-claims-september/ Urban Hospitals of Last Resort Cling to Life in Time of COVID https://khn.org/MTE3MDIwNQ The latest crisis: Low-income students are dropping out of college this fall in alarming numbers https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/16/college-enrollment-down/ Black Women Turn to Midwives to Avoid COVID and ‘Feel Cared For’ https://khn.org/MTE3MTI0MA Financial Struggles: Low Occupancy Hits Connecticut Nursing Homes Hard https://khn.org/MTE3Njg5MQ Perspective | A requiem for all the mom-and-pop shops shut down by the pandemic https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-requiem-for-all-the-mom-and-pop-shops-shut-down-by-t...

  The latest crisis: Low-income students are dropping out of college this fall in alarming numbers https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/16/college-enrollment-down/ Maryland Individual Health Insurance Rates Drop Again https://cbsloc.al/3moEkgh#.X2H_RrJWz8M.twitter Here's What Happens Every Minute on the Internet in 2020 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-minute-internet-2020/ Hungry Harvest closes $14 million round amid Covid-induced business boom https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2020/09/15/hungry-harvest-raises-14-m-amid-business-boom.html?ana=RSS Social media disinformation on US west coast blazes ‘spreading faster than fire' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/14/disinformation-oregon-wildfires-spreading-social-media Testing Cost Varies Widely; Phone App Might Aid Tracing https://khn.org/MTE3NTgxMQ AstraZeneca Hiked Prices On Its Biggest Drugs By As Much As 6% This Year https://khn.org/MTE3NTE1OA Perspectives: Trump'...

  Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html Trump alma mater says Biden plan would lead to more economic growth https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-tax-plan-debt-wharton-school-univeristy-pennsylvania/ Increases In Medicaid Enrollment Widespread Due To Job Losses https://khn.org/MTE3NDk1Ng COVID Exodus Fills Vacation Towns With New Medical Pressures https://khn.org/MTE2NTM3NQ National Strategy for Financial Literacy 2020 https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/US-National-Strategy-Financial-Literacy-2020.pdf Did Medicaid Work Requirements Achieve Their Goals in Arkansas? https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2020/did-medicaid-work-requirements-achieve-their-goals-arkansas#.X2EI5jQ-QgE.twitter Fewer Americans had health insurance last year ...

  Biden Ties Trump's Pandemic Response To Economic Woes https://khn.org/MTE3Mzg1NA President Trump’s Record on Health Care - Overview https://www.kff.org/1d98c5c/ Medicaid rolls swell amid the pandemic’s historic job losses, straining state budgets https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-medicaid-enrollment-increases/2020/09/14/84b6249a-e6f1-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html States and cities scramble to sue oil companies over climate change https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/states-cities-scramble-sue-oil-companies-over-climate-change/ Amazon to hire 100,000 workers as e-commerce swells amid the pandemic https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/14/amazon-hire-100000-workers-e-commerce-swells-amid-pandemic/ Maryland Lawmakers, Advocates to Unveil Program to Reduce Health Care Disparities https://www.marylandmatters.org/2020/09/14/lawmakers-advocates-to-unveil-program-to-reduce-health-care-disparities/ With No Legal Guardrails f...

Dense smoke smothers Pacific Northwest, shutting residents indoors and complicating fire response https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/13/dense-smoke-smothers-pacific-northwest-shutting-residents-indoors-complicating-fire-response/ Analysis | Trump’s hostility to cities threatens to worsen the recession https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trumps-hostility-to-cities-threatens-to-worsen-the-recession/2020/09/13/43118a40-f45a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html More than 200 meat plant workers in the U.S. have died of covid-19. Federal regulators just issued two modest fines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/osha-covid-meat-plant-fines/2020/09/13/1dca3e14-f395-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html Military Forced Into Payroll Tax Deferral; 1.3 Million Can’t Opt-Out https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/09/08/military-forced-payroll-tax-deferment-deferral-no-opt-out/ As a result of COVID-19, thousands of daycare centers may close, leaving childcare providers—and the wo...

  Robot cleaners are coming, this time to wipe up your coronavirus germs  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/08/robot-cleaners-surge-pandemic/ Analysis | The Trump vs. Obama economy — in 16 charts  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/05/trump-obama-economy/ Perspective | IRS is trying to reach 9 million people who haven’t collected their stimulus payments  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/11/irs-stimulus-check-letter/ Perspective | Now is not the time to mess with Social Security  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/11/stock-market-volatility-social-security/ A Lifeline to the Jobless Has Problems With Fraud, and With Math  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/business/economy/pandemic-unemployment-assistance-fraud.html?smid=tw-share The Investment Perspectives Blog is at: https://tinyurl.com/blogfin091320   with  5  finance articles. My blog can also be found on my Facebook Investment Persp...