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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Long Live Scabby

Jul 24, 2021 Julia Rock
Also: President Joe Biden takes aim at drug prices, and a key senator signals support for the PRO Act.
Union protestors stand next to an inflatable Scabby the Rat mascot.
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Good things are happening! President Joe Biden aims to lower prescription drug prices by embracing a strategy progressives have been pushing for decades. One of the last Democratic holdouts in the Senate caves to activist pressure and indicates support for the party’s sweeping labor law reform bill. A movement against unfair evictions is taking root in New York. And Scabby the Rat is free!

Also:

  • Americans may soon be free to fix their own stuff.
  • A major forest fire hazard is going away.
  • D.C.’s wealthy lose a big tax battle.

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