News

2021

March

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• Biden to reassert consumer watchdog agency sidelined by Trump. Biden's administration has pinpointed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a tool to help deliver on promises to address systemic racial inequality.

• The CFPB has a message for the banks it regulates: We're back. With a new boss on the way, the consumer protection agency is knocking on doors and asking tough questions.

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• What vaccinations mean for restaurant dining questions. With encouraging headlines, springlike temperatures and our collective covid fatigue at an all-time high, it might be tempting to throw caution—and another round of takeout—to the wind. But experts agree that

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• Amazon is selling its health-care service to other companies. Amazon Care allows employees and their families to text or video chat with health-care providers, usually within 60 seconds of their request, and in some cases, it sends doctors to make home visits. Now Amazon will

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• In a first, Uber agrees to classify British drivers as ‘workers’. The new legal classification, which follows a U.K. court ruling last month, will entitle the workers to more pay and benefits, but stops short of making them employees.

• Moderna begins testing its vaccine in children. The drug company Moderna has begun a study that will test its Covid vaccine in children under 12, including babies as young as six months, the company said on Tuesday. The study is expected to enroll 6,750

• Amazon lanza servicio de salud para empresas. Amazon anunció el miércoles el lanzamiento de sus servicios de salud, diciendo que ofrecerá su programa de telemedicina Amazon Care a empresas en todo Estados Unidos.

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• The IRS is behind in processing nearly 7 million tax returns. Nearly 7 million tax filers are in limbo and facing substantial delays in getting refunds, as the Internal Revenue Service struggles to keep up with the demands of issuing stimulus checks and implementing a myriad of

• California sues nursing home chain for manipulating ratings. The lawsuit, filed by the state attorney general and other prosecutors, accuses Brookdale Senior Living of gaming Medicare’s ubiquitous star-rating system.

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• Preguntas frecuentes sobre el estímulo, el desempleo y las devoluciones de impuestos. Respondemos las dudas más comunes sobre el plan de rescate de Estados Unidos.

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• Who gets the most help from the Biden stimulus bill?. Over half the money — 54 percent — in the bill goes toward households. In addition to the popular $1,400 checks, there is also funding for extra unemployment insurance through Labor Day, expanded tax credits, and various

• Obamacare’s about to get a lot more affordable. Under the stimulus bill passed by Congress this week nearly all those who buy their own insurance are eligible for a discount. The American Rescue Plan broadens the subsidies available under the Affordable Care Act

• Líderes indígenas mexicanos y guatemaltecos usan sus redes de apoyo para vacunar a sus comunidades. Dentro de su comunidad maya en Los Ángeles, Feliza Tecúm ha escuchado falsos rumores de que el gobierno está inyectando la vacuna contra el coronavirus con un microchip de rastreo.

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• Which medical conditions get prioritized for vaccinations?. As states have begun vaccinating Americans with medical conditions that may raise their risk for a severe case of Covid-19, they are setting widely varying rules about which conditions to prioritize. The morass of guidelines

• Kaiser Permanente, socia de California en la vacunación, tropieza para inmunizar a sus propios miembros. Los miembros de varios estados dan al gigante de la atención gestionada críticas mixtas sobre cómo ha manejado su propio programa de vacunas en los últimos dos meses.

• OPINIÓN: La parte ‘D’ de Medicare dejará vulnerables e indefensos a latinos que viven con el VIH/SIDA. Mientras que la pandemia del COVID-19 le ha quitado la vida a casi 50.000 californianos, no debemos olvidar que la epidemia del VIH/SIDA les ha quitado la vida a cientos de miles de personas durante

• Trabajadores agrícolas de EEUU no son inmunizados. La cosecha de cebollas de Georgia se aproxima y cada vez hay más vacunas contra el COVID-19. Los centros de salud para migrantes quieren empezar a vacunar a los trabajadores agrícolas.

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• 3 changes to Social Security you may not know about. Since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, the program has been one of the most important sources of income for retirees. Still, many people don't really understand the nuances of

• A policy revolution in aid for children in stimulus bill. The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package moving through Congress advances an idea that Democrats have been nurturing for decades: establishing a guaranteed income for families with children.

• Se recomiendan exámenes anuales de pulmón para los mayores de 50 aunque no hayan fumado mucho tiempo. Una nueva recomendación de los expertos logrará que más mujeres y afroestadounidenses sean elegibles para las tomografías computarizadas, aunque no todos podrán costearlas.