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Thursday, April 2, 2020

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SHUTTING DOWN 73 nations now on no-entry list to prevent more cases of infection April 1, 2020 The government drastically expanded its ban on entry from overseas in its latest move to curtail new coronavirus infections. The 73 nations now targeted encompass huge chunks of the world.
REDUCING MONTHLY BURDEN Student seeks to lower sales tax rate on women’s sanitary items April 2, 2020 When Ayumi Taniguchi was a child, her grandmother told her she once had to choose between buying breakfast bread and feminine hygiene products every month because she was poor.

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: U.N.: Pandemic could shrink global economy almost 1%
: EDITORIAL: Policy responses must prepare for unprecedented virus downturn
: Student seeks to lower sales tax rate on women’s sanitary items

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