California
The state’s travel advisory says Californians “should practice self-quarantine for 14 days” after non-essential travel…
Last summer, a COVID-19 outbreak spread to more than half of the detainees and a quarter of facility staff…
An industry-backed group called the California Coalition for Fairness said Tuesday, 11/24, submitted more than one million signatures in an effort to let voters overturn CA SB793 (19R), a recently enacted law prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products in California…
In an effort to measure the impact of California’s new board diversity law, the Latino Corporate Directors Association launched a tool to measure the number of Latino directors on California’s public boards…
Coronavirus
About 5.8 million adults say they are somewhat to very likely to face eviction or foreclosure in the next two months, according to a survey completed 11/9 by the U.S. Census Bureau…
AstraZeneca said Monday, 11/23, that it will submit to the FDA preliminary data from large clinical trials in the U.K. and Brazil as part of an application for emergency authorization…
The 2021 Nation’s Report Card (also referred to as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)) is officially on hold for this school year because of the pandemic, the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) said Wednesday, 11/25…
President and Administration
The Supreme Court signaled a major shift in its approach to COVID-19 related restrictions late Wednesday, 11/25, voting 5-4 to bar New York state from re-imposing limits on religious gatherings…
President Trump pressed the U.S. Supreme Court to let him exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count, as the justices heard arguments in a case that could affect the allocation of congressional seats and federal dollars…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is scheduled to testify about the CARES Act before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, 12/1, according to a department statement…
Education
College groups are asking the incoming Biden administration to reverse recent rules they say threaten to dampen the prospects of international enrollment at U.S. colleges…
A new analysis conducted for the U.S. Department of Education puts the amount of money the federal government stands to lose on its student loan portfolio in roughly the same ballpark as the amount private lenders lost on subprime mortgages during the 2008 financial crisis…
Congress
Republican and Democratic lawmakers have reached an agreement on spending levels for the annual spending bill needed to keep the government open after current Continuing Resolution (CR) runs out Dec. 11, according to two congressional aides in both parties…
Transition
The General Services Administration (GSA) on Monday, 11/23, finally acknowledged Biden as the apparent winner of the 2020 presidential election, allowing his team support the transition and gives him access to over $7 million in public funds…
Biden’s selection of Janet Yellen as Treasury Department secretary signals he plans to act aggressively to revive the world’s biggest economy, putting a former Federal Reserve chair who’s not shied away from stimulus at the helm of his economic policy…