Tag: Donald Trump
Kilmartin joins 17 attorney generals in SCOTUS brief on travel ban
PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin joined 17 other attorneys general in filing a new amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing...
PCHC moves to larger facility to meet growing demand
Providence Community Health Centers Inc. has traded its Chad Brown Street location for a larger 1 Randall Square facility in Providence to meet growing...
Should the U.S. government rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
By setting a time limit on the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by executive order by former President Barack...
Yellen issues broad defense of post-crisis financial rules
NEW YORK - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said any rollback of post-crisis financial reforms should be “modest” because they’ve made the banking system...
Regional climate accord agrees to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent
(Updated: 5:32 p.m.)
PROVIDENCE – The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a nine-state bipartisan climate accord, has reached consensus on a new plan aimed at reducing...
What should President Donald Trump’s highest priority be right now?
With the initial efforts to repeal and/or replace the Affordable Care Act pulled from the congressional docket, what should the president set his policy...
GOP’s Obamacare repeal would cut insured by 32 million, CBO says
WASHINGTON - A Republican fallback plan to repeal all of Obamacare without a replacement health program would lead to 32 million more people uninsured than under...
Most-read stories during June 2017, on PBN.com
1. 2017 40 Under Forty winners chosen
POSTED ONLINE: June 16
Providence Business News has chosen the winners for its 13th 40 Under Forty program, to...
Is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) better than either the House...
Much of the young Trump administration has been spent trying to overturn and replace the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare). The impulse...
Capital One must resubmit plan as 33 banks ace Fed tests
NEW YORK – Capital One Financial Corp. was alone among big U.S. banks in stumbling through the Federal Reserve’s annual stress tests, getting conditional...