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The Dig: Biden's Pandemic w/ Justin Feldman

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OSHA's Power to Regulate Workplace Hazards

Congress gave osea very broad authority to regulate work place helth and safety. That power has been whittled away over the ears, both by rules imposed on the and by just not funding it enough. There's only, at the federal level, 900 something inspectors to cover 22 states. And then other states have their own, their own state plansi i won't go into the complexities of it, but its now she has been jointly strangled by austerity and law and economics, exactly.

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