Why else would their newly unveiled Republican National Convention logo depict an elephant trampling all over an American flag? For shame, GOP, for shame. [Tampa Bay Online]
Romney is no fan of the effort to oust Liz Cheney from GOP leadership
The Biden administration is undoing a Trump policy that curtailed protections for gay and transgender people in health care
The U.S. will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope of legal rights in sensitive situations involving medical care.
The action by the Department of Health and Human Services affirms that federal laws forbidding sex discrimination in health care also protect gay and transgender people. The Trump administration had defined “sex” to mean gender assigned at birth, thereby excluding transgender people from the law’s umbrella of protection.
… [HHS Secretary Xavier] Becerra said the Biden administration policy will bring HHS into line with a landmark Supreme Court decision last year in a workplace discrimination case, which established that federal laws against sex discrimination on the job also protect gay and transgender people.
A disappointing jobs report
The American jobs engine slowed markedly last month, confounding rosy forecasts of the pace of the recovery and sharpening debates over how best to revive a labor market that was severely weakened by the coronavirus pandemic.
Employers added 266,000 jobs in April, the government reported Friday, far below the vigorous gains registered in March. The jobless rate rose slightly to 6.1 percent, as more people rejoined the labor force.
… Economists had forecast an addition of about a million jobs. The increase for March was revised down to 770,000 from 916,000.
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