The Biden administration pushes a plan to ease the truck driver shortage.
The company denied workers’ claims that supervisors or team leaders prevented employees from leaving. They now also have to contend with their prospects in a country where a quarter of those under age 25, who account for almost two-thirds of Iraq’s 41 million people, have no job despite Iraq possessing the world’s fifth-largest oil reserves.Īfter eight die in a Kentucky candle factory, workers question the company’s tornado preparation. They wonder what they’ll amount to, if they’ll ever have the careers they imagine: engineer, police officer, tennis coach. Iraq’s children of war come of age with little hopeĮighteen years after American troops first stepped on Iraqi soil, Iraqi youths now grapple with a country still shattered by turmoil. Stay up to date on variant developments, case counts and vaccine news with Coronavirus Today. White House officials say new data suggest the Omicron variant is highly transmissible but can be blunted by vaccine booster shots.healthcare spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last year to battle the COVID-19 pandemic across multiple fronts. There’s concern that vaccination rates are still lagging among Black and Latino residents of Los Angeles County, even as the most populated counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have significantly reduced disparities among communities of color.The spread is a reason why California ordered a statewide mandate for people to wear masks in indoor public settings that took effect Wednesday.Ĭalifornia’s new mask order affects about half the state’s residents, those who live in counties that do not already have an indoor mask mandate, such as San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino, as well as wide swaths of the Central Valley and rural Northern California. The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has expanded its reach in California, with more cases reported in recent days in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Ventura counties. Omicron spreads as state mask order takes effect Sign up for our California Politics newsletter to get the best of The Times’ state politics reporting and the latest action in Sacramento. Wade and let state lawmakers decide whether women may legally end a pregnancy. The Supreme Court is ending the year starkly split on abortion, with the five conservatives showing all signs they will overturn Roe vs.Meanwhile, the pandemic continues, inflation has spiked, the unanticipated influx of migrants at the southern border has not slowed, and voting restrictions have passed in Republican-controlled states.
The second recovery bill has stalled for weeks in the evenly divided Senate. He also signed the $1.2-trillion infrastructure bill, hailing the achievement as evidence that “Democrats and Republicans can come together and deliver results.”īut the bipartisan cooperation seems to be an isolated incident. Biden succeeded in March in enacting the first piece of his agenda, the sweeping $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan. President Biden entered office in January with a sketched-out template for his first several months. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.īiden’s Year One plan and his unmet goals
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