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Congress Should Stabilize The American Economy – Both Now And Later 

by Ben Ritz, Director for Center for Funding America's Future

At the end of next month, several economic support programs created by the CARES Act in March will expire. House Democrats have moved to extend and expand these supports through January 2021 with the $3 trillion HEROES Act. Senate Republicans, however, have used fiscal cost as a pretext to oppose or scale back this and other potential future stimulus measures. The stakes are high: allowing the CARES Act programs to expire would reduce the incomes of up to 30 million unemployed Americans by more than half overnight and cut off lending programs that have helped otherwise healthy businesses stay afloat during the crisis. Fortunately, there is an opportunity for lawmakers to strike a bipartisan compromise that supports our economy in a fiscally responsible way.

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Now is the Time to Connect Rural America to Broadband
by Lindsay Mark Lewis, Director of Health Care

Much like the challenges of rural electrification, it will take an all hands-on deck approach and the right policy framework to wire rural America with broadband.

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The GOP's "Spread Covid" Tax Credit May Be Its Dumbest Pandemic Proposal Yet
by Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America's Future

As Congress prepares to pass another round of coronavirus relief, Republicans have once again fallen back to their failed cure-all solution: another tax cut.

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Americans are Worried about Health Care Prices — What Can Congress Do?
by Arielle Kane, Director of Health Care

The idea is that if prices are posted, informed consumers — aka patients — can compare prices between providers for elective surgeries and procedures. This would encourage them to pick lower cost providers and subsequently, providers would lower their prices to remain competitive.

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