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b"(ENCORE) On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0\\xa0 The US House passed Pres. Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. The massive COVID relief and stimulus package now heads to the White House for his signature as one of the most progressive bills to ever come out of Congress. The bill will assist Americans in weathering the economic devastation of the pandemic, reduce the overall poverty rate in 2021 by more than a third, cut child poverty in half, and speed up vaccine distribution, among many other historic provisions.\\xa0 Biden also announced he had secured another 100 million vaccine doses from Johnson and Johnson. Zero Republicans voted for the rescue bill, and have only offered bad faith complaints and outright lies to oppose it.\\xa0 Biden is also shaping up to be one of the most pro-worker, pro-union presidents in decades, issuing an unambiguous video message supporting workers attempting to unionize an Amazon warehouse in Alabama. Biden supported Democrats' passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act before its passage in the House on Tuesday, the most progressive, pro-union bill in 80 years. Labor historian and Professor NELSON LICHTENSTEIN of UC-Santa Barbara, explains the importance of the PRO Act, the efforts to unionize Amazon, the effect of decades of corporate anti-union propaganda, and how the decline in labor rights and union representation coincides with many negative economic and social trends and impacts affecting workers and the American middle class.\\xa0 Also today:\\xa0 The US Senate confirms Pres. Biden's historic cabinet nominees for HUD and EPA, and Judge Merrick Garland as US Attorney General. Plus: musical comedy satirist Randy Rainbow returns with another new tune... (Original air-date 3/10/2021)"