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Ben Popken @bpopken
RT @NBCNewsBusiness: WATCH: The expiration of the expanded Child Tax Credit is expected to increase childhood poverty by five percent this… — PolitiTweet.org
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Local dealership's sign touts the dozens of new cars being delivered to the lot and encourages reservations. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @AliVelshi: Millions of kids were thrust back into poverty after the child tax credit expired. What’s next? https://t.co/jUlJH8AiDI — PolitiTweet.org
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Without the child tax credit "it has been like taking a whole working person from the house,” said a single mother of 3 who left her waitressing job after catching covid and now cleans houses. — PolitiTweet.org
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Mothers say that without the child tax credit they would have had to skip meals, sit in the dark and move in with family. https://t.co/MRlbjwLM9O — PolitiTweet.org
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@oneunderscore__ Been seeing a lot of this lately — PolitiTweet.org
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@oneunderscore__ Yup — PolitiTweet.org
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The child tax credit has expired. What did your family use it to pay for and what should the administration do next to fight child poverty? NBC News reporter looking to chat with folks for an article. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @NBCUAcademy: HEY, REPORTERS: Don’t run up to folks and just stick a mic and camera in their face. Talk to them. Introduce yourself.… — PolitiTweet.org
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Covid rapid test kit makers "have no shortage of customers, that's the one shortage they don't have." — PolitiTweet.org
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WATCH: "Covid rapid test companies themselves aren't immune to these pandemic labor shortages, from both the tight… https://t.co/V7wQrnlxbK
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@oneunderscore__ Pillsburian. — PolitiTweet.org
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"Many react to..." means Twitter dropped a bowl full of spaghetti on the floor and you can click over here to gaze at all the strands and sauce. — PolitiTweet.org
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Thanks for reading this thread, please check out the article and @NBCNewsNow segment with reporting by @jolingkent @CASottile and myself: https://t.co/6HzNTr3HAh — PolitiTweet.org
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The covid rapid test kit supply chain is itself also susceptible to the pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org
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"...most [rapid test kit] manufacturers are 'on allocation,' meaning that everything that they are producing has been allocated to a specific customer even before it is fully manufactured," wrote ASU professor Maria Aspinall and her colleagues, who have been tracking capacity. — PolitiTweet.org
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Companies winning the bids for the government contract will have to quickly ramp up new capacity to meet the 500 million goal. The current total level is estimated at 260 million per month, rising to 526 million by March. — PolitiTweet.org
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Test makers have to forecast if a massive capital investment for the capacity for tests will still pay off in eight years — or even eight months. "No one wants to be left holding massive inventories when the music stops," said logistics professor Tom Goldsby. — PolitiTweet.org
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"Omicron numbers are literally insane and I would have never foreseen a day when we’d have a million cases. It’s just crazy. But we knew things would get bad around the holidays," said @JenniferNuzzo. Yet we didn't do enough to shore up test kits. Partly because... — PolitiTweet.org
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"There was always going to be a testing demand. The fact that it was hard to get tests in the summer should have been enough to say ‘let’s hunker down so we can be sure we have enough tests at the holidays,’" said @JenniferNuzzo. — PolitiTweet.org
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Epidemiologists are "frustrated" because they were calling out in the spring that we needed more rapid test kits, and the summer low availability should have been a screaming warning sign. — PolitiTweet.org
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Attention has focused on the immediately available visual of desperate consumers snapping up the last kits on the shelves. But earlier this year employers big, small, public and private started stockpiling test kits. When demand surged, supply was even lower. — PolitiTweet.org
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Test kit makers can have trouble getting enough trucks to arrive, or arrive in the right order. Companies are building new distribution centers, but have trouble meeting staffing targets, despite increasing wages. — PolitiTweet.org
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An ongoing paper shortage means there's challenges with sourcing material for the boxes to put the tests in. “We have a test. But we can’t ship it if we don’t have the product insert and the instructions for use, as well as the box to put it in,” said InBios CEO Raychaudhuri. — PolitiTweet.org
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Nitrocellulose membrane is used for the actual test strip "paper" the liquid flows over and a major supply comes from Ireland. Earlier in the pandemic it was difficult to source. Supplies are better now, but may be challenges in 6 months if this demand continues. — PolitiTweet.org
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The people making the test kits are also getting covid: “Every one of my executives has had it,” said Douglas Bryant, CEO of rapid test kit company Quidel. “Including yours truly.” Currently, 10 percent of his workforce who make the product is quarantined. — PolitiTweet.org
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Rapid covid test makers are under the same pressures as any hands-on manufacturer right now: too many staff out with covid, battling Amazon for tight logistics worker pool, sourcing key materials, finding enough trucks, and soaring demand. — PolitiTweet.org
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Rapid covid test kit company executives and their factory workers themselves have covid or are quarantining. https://t.co/6HzNTr3HAh This is how hard it is to make test kits right now (thread) 👇 — PolitiTweet.org
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The answer to today's Wordle is "muting." I like Wordle but don't need it at the top of my timeline all the time. https://t.co/KWCVH0bA0E — PolitiTweet.org
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"I'll be here a few years and I want to see these integrations done. I want to see it’s firmly on this path, and I want to hand it over to somebody else who can take us the next decade," said Gorman. Few = 3 or more. — PolitiTweet.org
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Let X equal number of years Gorman will helm Morgan Stanley: 3 < X < 5 Earnings call: "I'm not leaving now and I'm not gonna be here in five years and it's up to the board. We're developing successors," said Gorman. $MS — PolitiTweet.org
