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☆ Christian Nationalists Could Put Trump Back in the White House: Expert
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

In the US, the immediate crisis is the phenomenon of Donald Trump and the strong conservative Christian support for Trump, which continues to this day. Can you tell me a little bit more about the reasons that you've found why Donald Trump has such a significant base among Christian conservatives? What's interesting is evangelicals have had to learn how to hold their nose and support Trump. There are state-level Christian theocrats who are in some ways implementing as much of an authoritarian reactionary Christian agenda as they can. And when this ferocious backlash begins on the white Christian side, it's very tightly connected to the civil rights era.

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☆ I'm an American living in Mexico. I've seen the effects gentrification has on the locals and wish other expats would stop doing these 5 things here.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Ananya Vahal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

He says Americans moving to Mexico need to stop staying in older Airbnb units among other things. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeremy Albelda, a 36-year-old entrepreneur living in Mexico City. Here are some things that other Americans moving to Mexico should stop doing. Make an effort to learn Spanish and you'll help improve the overall image of remote workers and tourists. Stop staying in older Airbnb unitsOlder Airbnb unit owners usually displaced a local resident to turn it into an Airbnb.

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☆ Opinion | This Is the Actual Danger Posed by D.E.I.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There are few national conversations more frustrating than the fight over D.E.I. has become yet another catchall boogeyman, a stand-in not just for actual policies or practices designed to increase diversity, but also a scapegoat for unrelated crises. The idea, if it can be called that, was that efforts to diversify airline work forces had contributed to the accident. In fact, the airline industry is much safer than it was when it was a virtually all-white enterprise decades ago. But that’s not the entire story when it comes to controversy over D.E.I.

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☆ Jobless rate for Black Americans declines to 5.2% to end 2023 on a positive note
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-05 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

A networking and hiring event for professionals of color in Minneapolis, MN. Michael Siluk | Getty ImagesThe unemployment rate for Black Americans fell significantly in December, closing out 2023 on a positive note, according to data released Friday by the Department of Labor. Black Americans, the group with the highest jobless percentage in the country, saw their unemployment rate dip to 5.2% last month from 5.8% in November. Still, that's higher than the overall unemployment rate, which held at 3.7% last month, as well as the 3.5% jobless rate for white Americans.

Persons: Michael Siluk Organizations: Black, Department of Labor Locations: Minneapolis , MN

☆ Baby boomers did one big thing we should all be grateful for
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-02 | by ( Andy Kiersz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The boomers had it great, the argument goes, but then they went and screwed it all up. For one thing, baby boomers didn't have it easy: The America they grew up in was poorer, less educated, less healthy, and more unfair than the society we live in today. To better understand how individuals and families are experiencing the economy, it's important to look at wages, income, and wealth. Boomers have consistently passed laws to make building housing harder, leaving the country with a structural housing deficit. Beyond the economy, the boomers have handed off other deep problems that the younger generations will have to solve.

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☆ Unemployment among Asian workers and Black men rises in November while the overall rate declines
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-08 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesThe labor market deteriorated for both Asian and Black workers in November, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor. The overall unemployment rate declined 0.2% to 3.7% last month, against a forecast that it would hold steady at 3.9%. Overall, the labor force participation rate ticked up to 62.8% alongside a surge of 532,000 workers into the labor force. For white Americans, the jobless rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 3.3%. Hispanic Americans also saw their unemployment rate slip 0.2 percentage points to 4.6%.

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☆ Opinion | The Senate Is Getting Less Democratic by the Minute
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

62, you should consider it a concession to the political realities of the moment:A government founded on principles more consonant to the wishes of the larger States, is not likely to be obtained from the smaller States. The most populous states — including not only California, but New York, Illinois, Florida and Texas — tend to be the most diverse states, with a large proportion of nonwhite residents. The smallest states by population — like Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire — tend to be the least diverse. And the structure of the Senate tends to amplify the power of residents in smaller states and weaken the power of those in larger states. The second and more important problem is that the modern Senate isn’t the one the framers designed in 1787.

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☆ In 1916, the US began forcing Mexicans crossing the southern border to take kerosene baths. That tactic was later studied by the Nazis.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Dearbea Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

In 1916, the US began forcing Mexicans that crossed the border to bathe in a mix of kerosene and vinegar. A US immigration officer talks to Mexicans in El Paso, Texas, 1916. El Paso was considered to have the ideal dry, warm climate to combat tuberculosis, and so, multiple sanatoriums were built in the city. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs a result, Mexicans and Mexican Americans who lived along the border developed a deep fear of the baths, Levya said. In total, the government is thought to have bathed 127,123 Mexicans at the bridge between Juárez and El Paso.

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☆ Infant Deaths Have Risen for the First Time in 20 Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The number of American babies who died before their first birthdays rose last year, significantly increasing the nation’s infant mortality rate for the first time in two decades, according to provisional figures released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics. The spike is a somber manifestation of the state of maternal and child health in the United States. Infant and maternal mortality, inextricably linked, are widely considered to be markers of a society’s overall health, and America’s rates are higher than those in other industrialized countries. Their infants face up to double the risk of dying, compared with white and Hispanic babies. Overall life expectancy has declined in the United States in recent years, too, affecting white Americans as well as people of color.

Organizations: National Center for Health Statistics Locations: United States

☆ Can you ask someone how much they pay in rent? An ethicist, philosopher and etiquette expert weigh in
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Depending on how well you know them, questions about those personal details can seem forward, if not downright rude. "Asking someone how much they pay for housing is a proxy for asking them how wealthy they are," she says. Asking someone how much they pay for housing is a proxy for asking them how wealthy they are. Anita Allen Professor, University of PennsylvaniaThat's why, Allen says, she would only ask if she "knew them very well." 'We are having a housing crisis nationally'A 'For Rent' sign is posted near a home on February 07, 2022 in Houston, Texas.

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☆ Opinion | Why Big Money Can’t Easily Change Campus Politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

First, Jewish donors probably can’t win the identity politics game. But this strategy also has inherent limits, insofar as the free speech protected by campus administrators is only as diverse as the people who are speaking. Which brings us to the second point for would-be reshapers of the university: If you can’t influence faculty hiring and tenure, you may be wasting your money. Will the University of Pennsylvania miss the collection of major donors who’ve denounced the school in the past week? But not with the goal of using such student groups as a means of conflict with the administration or the faculty.

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☆ Opinion | The Deep Roots of Republican Dysfunction
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

This has at least two major implications for the internal workings of the Democratic Party. If you take the internal dynamics of the Democratic Party and invert them, you get something like those within the Republican Party. Outside a handful of environments, found in largely Democratic states like Maryland and Massachusetts, moderate Republican politicians are virtually extinct. But more than the number of conservatives is the character of the conservatism that dominates the Republican Party. The Republican Party exists almost entirely for the promotion of a distinct and doctrinaire ideology of hierarchy and anti-government retrenchment.

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☆ CNN Poll: Americans overwhelmingly side with autoworkers in ongoing union strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Ariel Edwards-Levy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Americans overwhelmingly side with unionized autoworkers in their ongoing strike against major car companies, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, even as most say that elected officials should steer clear of labor disputes. Support for the striking workers is particularly robust among Democrats (56% sympathize strongly), members of union households (57%) and self-described liberals (61%). The effects of the United Auto Workers union strike have been relatively limited for American consumers so far. There’s a slightly more pronounced racial divide, with 79% of White Americans saying things have gotten harder financially, compared with 68% of Americans of color who feel the same. A 64% majority of Americans say that the GOP-led House committees investigating Biden are mostly using the investigations to gain political advantage, compared with 36% who say they are mostly conducting objective investigations.

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☆ A landmark marijuana bill is headed to the Senate floor
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —The Senate Banking Committee approved a historic marijuana banking bill last week that breaks barriers between financial institutions and cannabis companies. The legislative road ahead is tough, despite the bipartisan majority in committee, but this bill could redefine the business of marijuana. A cannabis business owner drove from Portland to Salem to deliver his taxes, and he had a backpack with $70,000 cash in it. Shutting down its DVD business could help Netflix better focus resources as it expands into new markets such as gaming as well as live and interactive content. Its DVD business has also declined significantly in recent years.

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☆ How Often Do Women Think About … ?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Sopan Deb | More About Sopan Deb | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And because the internet is an endless expanse of Content, this has spurred a reverse trend, where women and nonbinary people have wanted to weigh in with their own Roman Empires, loosely defined as the topics one privately contemplates more than anyone realizes. forward: “I think about just so many different things all at once. Vaynblat has multiple Roman Empires, too — the alien one and then a more serious one: motherhood. A friend who will stay.”Min Jin Lee, author of the novel “Pachinko,” described her equivalent of the Roman Empire as “Colonial America,” a subject of her college thesis. In particular, Lee said she often sees “obsequiousness” to France and England as common throughout American institutions.

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☆ Jobless rate for Black Americans drops as others rise
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Amina Niasse | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Bryan Woolston Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Black Americans were the only U.S. racial or ethnic group to see a drop in their jobless rate in August, helping drive the gap between the rates for Black people and white people back to near a record low. The unemployment rate for Black Americans historically has risen before an approaching recession and typically has turned higher before that of other groups. August's half-percentage point drop to 5.3% came as the rates for whites, Hispanics and Asian Americans all rose. The overall U.S. jobless rate rose to 3.8% from 3.5%, but that was the result of growth in the workforce. The unemployment rate gap between Black and white Americans fell back to 1.9 percentage points, just 0.3 percentage points shy of the record 1.6-point gap in April.

Persons: Bryan Woolston, Amina Niasse, Peter Graff Organizations: Kentucky Labor, REUTERS, Bryan Woolston Acquire, Black, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Blacks, Thomson Locations: Frankfort , Kentucky, U.S

☆ Racist housing practices left Minneapolis with an extreme heat problem. Now, the city is rushing to reverse the lasting effects of environmental racism.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Dearbea Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The city hopes to rectify its history of environmental racism with a new Climate Equity Plan. It was also the only place Black people were allowed to purchase housing in the city. For all these reasons, previously redlined neighborhoods suffer from extreme heat. After years of outcry from activists, the city council submitted a new draft of a 10-year plan, titled the Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan, soliciting public comments. Earlier this year, Portland passed its 43-Step Climate Action Plan, which has similar objectives to the Minneapolis plan.

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☆ Why the Republican defense of Trump points to more turbulence ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

In the Republican coalition, it is a moment that has culminated decades of change – and one that points to years of turbulence ahead. Overwhelming majorities of Republican voters dismiss the charges against Trump. In Gallup’s latest annual survey of trust in institutions, Republicans expressed less faith in 10 of the 16 measured. Veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres points to another, more personal, reason so many GOP voters have discounted the charges against Trump. Trump is the Republican most effectively riding that wave now, but it seems unlikely to recede whenever he fades from the political scene.

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☆ Addiction Treatment Eludes More Than Half of Americans in Need
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Noah Weiland | More About Noah Weiland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Why It Matters: Opioid addiction affects every part of American society. Rural and white Americans were the likeliest to report personal or family opioid addiction, but significant percentages of Black, Hispanic, urban and suburban families did, as well. Overdose fatality rates among Black Americans have climbed substantially in recent years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a study last year. A third of Americans fear that someone in their family will die of an opioid overdose, researchers discovered. Methadone, another opioid addiction medication that alleviates cravings, is heavily regulated and often difficult for drug users to access and use continuously, prompting repeated calls from addiction physicians and public health experts for easing restrictions.

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☆ Why I Bring Up Climate Change on First Dates - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Erica Berry | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When I brought up global warming, he’d often try to comfort me: to wrap me in a hug, cue up an old episode of “Seinfeld,” offer a CBD gummy. I struggled to tell him that I didn’t need anesthesia or answers, I just wanted a relationship where we shared more of the same inquiries. If relationships depend on a shared fantasy of the future, then global warming does more than unsettle our environment — it creates uncertainty in our interpersonal ones. This time, I’m swallowing my fear of sounding too anxious and am talking about climate change early on. But I’ve found that talking about how global warming affects our lives, however casually, becomes a sort of canary in the coal mine for learning about a person’s broader beliefs and behaviors.

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☆ It’s No Surprise That Donald Trump Is Being Charged Under a Reconstruction-Era Law - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Ian Bassin | Kristy Parker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Other Reconstruction-era laws are also in the center of debates today. That guarantee was ratified in 1868 to reverse the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision holding that African Americans were not citizens. And recently, our organization filed a voting rights lawsuit under the 1870 law that readmitted Virginia to the Union. Ian Bassin is a co-founder and the executive director of the group Protect Democracy and a former associate White House counsel. Kristy Parker is counsel at Protect Democracy and the former deputy chief of the criminal section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

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"It seems like they do a lot to try to make it seem like they are the party for young Black men or Black men as a whole, but they don't back it with anything. The vast majority of Black voters, including men, are still expected to choose Biden over a Republican. Black men and women under the age of 50 voted Republican in similar numbers, the poll showed. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted July 11-17 found 18% of Black Americans would pick Trump over Biden in a hypothetical matchup, compared to 46% who favored Biden, including about one in four Black men, compared to about one in seven Black women. Compared with Black women, Black men were more likely to say they would back a presidential candidate that supported abortion restrictions and increased police funding to fight crime.

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☆ Here Are the Charges Trump Faces in the Jan. 6 Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Charlie Savage | More About Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Here is a closer look at the charges. One of the charges, a conspiracy to violate rights, is Section 241 of Title 18 of the United States Code. A conviction on this charge is punishable by up to five years in prison. But in a series of cases in the 20th century, the Supreme Court upheld expanding use of the statute to election-fraud conspiracies, like ballot-box stuffing. In invoking the statute, the indictment frames it as “a conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted.” Essentially, Mr. Smith has accused Mr. Trump of trying to rig the outcome of the election to falsely claim victory.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Smith Organizations: United, Ku Klux Klan Locations: United States

☆ Opinion: American women have an alcohol problem. It’s critical to understand why
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —American women have a problem with booze. The messaging around women and drinking has reflected women’s shift toward the dysfunctional, which may then create a vicious cycle as more women see problem drinking cast as cheeky, fun or normal. And more women may now be paying the price for this normalization of alcohol abuse. I suspect many of them are turning to alcohol as one way to dull the painful reality of isolation. None of that will end alcohol abuse, which has been a centuries-long problem.

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☆ Analysis: Tony Bennett sang in a key that Jason Aldean’s song can’t reach
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

White jazz artists were antiracists before the term was inventedMany of the tributes to Bennett mentioned his disdain for bigotry. Many White jazz artists were antiracists, long before the word was invented. Frank Sinatra, Bennett’s musical mentor, recorded with and relentlessly championed Black jazz artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. He hired a Black jazz bassist, Eugene Wright, and refused to play in segregated venues. There are countless photos of a beaming Bennett hanging out with Black jazz artists.

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