Seize Covid-19 Disruption As Opportunity To Fix Economic Disparities Say Mass, NJ AGs

Seize the Covid-19 disruption as an opportunity for the nation to fix economic inequities, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Healey and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal told a Consumer Federation of America conference Wednesday.

Grewal said keying on economic issues brought to prominence by disruption can provide a chance to address inequities that have plagued the country for four centuries

They said their offices will be trying to aid disadvantaged children in the year ahead from matters from air pollution that concentrates its ill effects on poor communities to the adverse impact Covid-19 is having on childhood experiences.

Efforts by the state attorneys general on a wide range of consumer issues should be bolstered in the coming year by the coming in of the presidency of Joe Biden, predicted the two Democrats.

“Let’s turn on the information flow the Trump Administration turned off,” said New Jersey’s Grewal.

He called the state attorneys general the cavalry in the pandemic and if the federal government had been focused on the consumer issues arising from Covid-19 he and the other attorneys general could have done much more.

“We have a pretty long list of ideas for the Biden administration,” asserted Massachusetts Attorney General Healey.

She claimed the lack of cooperation from the Justice Department, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other federal agencies on the pandemic during the Trump Administration forced her office to work with the chamber of commerce and other industry groups.

“The Trump Administration abdicated its responsibility,” Healey claimed.

She said she hopes her office’s good partnerships with industry will sustain themselves but become less important as a consumer protection-oriented administration takes hold.

New Jersey’s Grewal said the shortage of personal protective equipment at the start of the pandemic hampered his office’s ability to respond to a flood of thousands of price gouging and other complaints.

“We didn’t have enough PPE for our inspectors so we couldn’t respond to every complaint,” said the New Jersey Attorney General.

He noted the same isolation that has helped curb the spread of the virus created a wealth of targets for scammers since they were reaching the home-bound when others weren’t.

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