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Yet another bad provision @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell and friends tried to slip into the coronavirus stimulus bill; unbelievably, tied to the $350 billion for loans to small businesses that don’t lay off their workers during the coronavirus crisis... washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Per reporting by @ThePlumLineGS: 
This is just gross. And it will hurt rural communities in particular:
Hi everyone. I'm one of those restaurant workers, a former entrepreneur, and a student of foreign policy. I can't believe our system is so broken we can't protect our citizens from #COVIDー19 the way South Korea can, but I've been developing a solution for ~2 years. Thread, 1/x
Yes, our country is embroiled in political gridlock. Yes, our country is divided. But it has been since our country's founding. The sooner we disabuse ourselves of the notion that it's #SenateDemocrats' or #SenateRepublicans' fault, the better. 2/x
I don't say this as a facile "it's always been this way" response. The fact is that we are a network of 150-plus-year-old settlements that sought religious freedom and self-determination. We determined our borders initially by rivers and geographic coordinates, not culture. 3/x
🔥 BREAKING: Because Trump and his Cabinet of Horrors will always find another way to pocket your tax-dollars: Trump proposes increasing funding for the charter grant program by 13.6 percent, from $440 to $500 million
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rawstory.com/2019/03/charte…
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rawstory.com/2019/03/charte…
and education secretary Betsy DeVos praised this increase as a step forward for “education freedom.” But the report finds that increasing federal funds for this program would mostly continue to perpetuate academic fraud.
#DestabilizePrivatizeAndCapitalize
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🔥 Charter schools scammed the US Dept of Education’s Charter Schools Program (CSP) for up to $1 Billion in wasted grants that went to charters that never opened or opened only briefly before being shut down for mismanagement, poor performance, lack of enrollment, or fraud.
