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Berlin, Apr 22 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Clemens Bilan) The Bundesrat, the upper house of the German Parliament, ratified this Thursday Angela Merkel's government bill to guarantee uniform application throughout the country of the "emergency brake" for areas with high incidence of contagion with Covid-19.FOOTAGE OF THE DEBATE ON THE LAW OF PROTECTION AGAINST INFECTIONS IN THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT.
Berlin, Apr 21 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Filip Singer) Lawmakers in Germany's lower chamber of parliament, the Bundestag, on Wednesday approved a bill that would allow the central government override regional authorities to implement Covid-19 health and safety restrictions. FOOTAGE OF A PROTEST IN BERLIN AGAINST THE ACT.
India has some of the highest farmer suicide rates in the world, and experts fear the crisis could worsen if three laws affecting them aren't repealed. The new laws that they have passed, we call them death warrants of farmers and laborers. Kewal Singh Farmer, Punjab According to Business Insider, the laws deregulate the buying and selling of agricultural goods. That's led farmers to fear they will be exploited by corporations. The massive country's government is in talks with farmers, who continue to block road and rail routes across the country.
The US Federal government's Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, doled out hundreds of billions of dollars to businesses. The PPP's goal was to assist businesses during the nearly inevitable slowdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic. But according to Business Insider, many minority-owned businesses were left waiting for funds until the final weeks of the program. Many of our businesses were being turned down in the first and second round of funding. That caused application fatigue and frustration. Ron Busby President, US Black Chambers The Center For Responsible Lending says minority-owned businesses support 8.7 million jobs with an annual total payroll of $280 billion.
At long last, a new coronavirus stimulus package is finally set to be passed by the US Congress. The last one expired at the end of July. Business Insider reports the long-awaited package will reportedly contain $600 stimulus checks and an extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits. While the House has passed multiple bills that would have offered more to Americans, the GOP-controlled Senate has balked until now. However, the deal hasn't been well-received in the Twitterverse, and has produced references to class warfare and revolution. 'Let them eat cake' trended on Twitter in response to the apparently inadequate $600 stimulus check. It's a famous utterance attributed to Marie Antoinette, representing the out-of-touch monied, ruling class overthrown in the French Revolution.
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