Donors like billionaire investor Ken Langone, said one critic, are “always there to reach across the aisle to make sure to support politicians who take from the poor and give to the rich.” After he announced in December he would not be supporting President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, Sen. Joe Manchin’s political action committee […]
WASHINGTON — A U.S. government initiative to ship half a billion free COVID-19 tests to Americans will struggle to reach one of the communities that has been hardest hit by the pandemic — Native Americans living on rural reservations. The administration launched a website — COVIDTests.gov — on January 19, which links to an online U.S. […]
OVERVIEW – 5,897 new cases | 4 deaths | 190 hospitalizations | Statewide alert level: high | 58.4% of Alaskans 5+ vaccinated Note: Protective measures against the Omicron variant remain the same as for the other COVID variants. Layering protective measures, including masking, handwashing, physical distancing, and testing help to reduce transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Using a self-test […]
Washington, D.C. – Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the availability of 20,000 additional H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the first half of fiscal year 2022. H-2B visas permit American employers to temporarily hire rigorously screened nonimmigrants to perform nonagricultural labor if American workers are not available. These visas are critical to the […]