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Explaining the ArriveCan scandal

Explaining the ArriveCan scandal

FromThe Big Story


Explaining the ArriveCan scandal

FromThe Big Story

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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Mar 19, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

You might have used the app during the pandemic. It may have saved you time at the airport. It may have cost you an unnecessary quarantine. Either way, even if you never downloaded it, you paid for it.Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars went into developing, releasing and updating (dozens and dozens of times) the government's pandemic travel app. The question now is about how that money was spent, who received it, and how much work they did for it. The scandal has twists and turns and detail upon detail, but it really boils down to this: Was this a government in a hurry, wasting money but with good intentions in an emergency? Or something worse than that?GUEST: Irem Koca, journalist, The Hill Times
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Released:
Mar 19, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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