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☆ Nearly half of US renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Nearly half of all renter households in the US were cost-burdened in 2023, meaning they paid more than 30% of their income towards housing costs, according to new government data. “Housing costs rose between 2022 and 2023 for both homeowners and renters,” Molly Ross, a survey statistician at the Census Bureau, said in a statement. Households that spend more than 30% of their income on rent, mortgage payments or other housing costs are considered “cost-burdened” by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 2023, 56.2% of Black or African American households spent more than 30% of their income on housing costs, compared to 49.7% of the total population. About 2.5 million, or 30.6%, of Black households were considered “severely cost-burdened,” meaning they spent more than 50% of their income on housing costs in 2023.

Persons: Molly Ross, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Trump Organizations: CNN, Survey, Census, US Department of Housing, Urban Development, Federal Reserve Locations: Florida, Texas , California , New York, Louisiana, Illinois , Kansas , Minnesota, New Mexico , New York, West Virginia

☆ Women will soon be notified about their breast density after a mammogram. Here’s what that means
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“The second reason that breast density is important is because having dense breast tissue raises a woman’s level of risk of developing breast cancer,” Feigin said. Breast cancer survivor JoAnn Pushkin, 64, has advocated for more than a decade that there be a national requirement for women to be notified of their breast density. Now I have lymphedema, and all because it was detected at that later stage,” said Pushkin, who has testified before the FDA about breast density and co-created the website DenseBreast-info.org, which features resources on breast density. The new FDA changes require facilities to provide patients with information about their breast density and include specific language in the mammogram result letter to explain how breast density can influence the accuracy of a mammogram. A study published in 2022 found that the breast cancer death rate dropped by 43% within three decades, from 1989 to 2020, translating to 460,000 fewer breast cancer deaths during that time.

Persons: Kimberly Feigin, ” Feigin, JoAnn Pushkin, Pushkin, she’d, “, ” Pushkin, ‘, Pushkin’s mammogram, ”, wasn’t, Wendie Berg, Berg, ” Berg, it’s, Molly Guthrie, Susan G, Komen, ” Guthrie, we’ve, Dr, Sanjay Gupta Organizations: CNN, US Food, Breast Imaging Service, Assurance, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, District of Columbia, FDA, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Magee, Womens Hospital of UPMC, American Cancer Society, CNN Health Locations: United States

That level of intensity in a short period of time necessitated a crew of hardened professionals, several sources with knowledge of Harris' strategy said. Next week, a major campaign swing, then the convention and then it’s the debate,” one person with knowledge of Harris’ strategy said. Mitch Stewart will act as a senior adviser on battleground states, and Palmieri will serve as senior adviser to the second gentleman. “In Wisconsin, we have had more online volunteer sign-ups since July 21st than between January 1st and July 20th,” a Harris campaign aide said. “That’s a game-changer to a ground game in a small state like Nevada,” Molly Forgey, a Nevada Democratic strategist, said.

Persons: Kamala Harris ’, David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s, Stephanie Cutter, Jennifer Palmieri —, Harris, Joe Biden’s, Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Obama, Mitch Stewart, Palmieri, Brian Fallon —, ”, Pete Giangreco, Biden, Trump, “, Cutter, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Julie Rodriguez, “ Harris, Molly Forgey, Forgey, there’s, —, Chris Korge, he's Organizations: Democratic, White, Trump, “, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional, Committee, ”, Nevada Democratic Locations: “, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, “ In Wisconsin, Philadelphia, ” In Nevada

☆ Opinion | The Squandered Potential of Tim Scott
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Osita Nwanevu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The book itself suggested otherwise — that Mr. Scott was not only as fixated on his own color as the critics he scorned but also as determined to make use of it. Walker, whom Mr. Scott evidently sees as his historic peers. To be sure, the substance of Mr. Carson’s commentary on race did resemble Mr. Scott’s. That, to me, is racism.”But unlike Mr. Scott, Mr. Carson rarely discussed race of his own volition, on or off the stump. So where Mr. Carson ran largely as a conventional evangelical Republican candidate — racial dog whistles and all — Mr. Scott actively tried and failed to make a race-based message connect.

Persons: Scott, Jackie Robinson, Madam C.J, Walker, Scott’s, Ben Carson’s, Carson, Dennis Prager, ” —, “, ”, Molly Ball, Carson’s, Ball, Mr Organizations: Republican, South Locations: The, South Carolina

Cornell University student Patrick Dai is accused of making online threats against the school's Jewish community. David Bauder/APAfter the threats were posted Sunday, Cornell University police ramped up patrols and increased security for Jewish students and organizations, the agency said. At Cornell, Jewish students make up about 22% of the student body, with about 3,000 undergraduate and 500 graduate Jewish students, according to the school’s Hillel organization. “Jewish students on campus right now are unbelievably terrified for their lives,” Molly Goldstein, co-president of the Cornell Center for Jewish Living, told CNN. “The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community.

Persons: Patrick Dai, Dai, “, Gabrielle DiBella, DiBella, Christopher Wray, Biden, he’s, beheadings, ” Dai, Miranda, Dai’s, Cornell, David Bauder, Kathy Hochul, Hillel, Cornell Hillel, ” Molly Goldstein, ” Cornell, Joel M, Malina, ” Malina, ”, Martha E, Pollack, ” Pollack, Hochul, it’s, CNN’s Wolf, “ We’re, CNN’s Jessica Xing, Elizabeth Wolfe, Paul P, Murphy, Maria Campinoti, Dakin Andone, Chris Boyette, Andy Rose, Caroll Alvarado, Artemis Moshtaghian, Michelle Watson Organizations: New York CNN, The Cornell University, Ivy League, New York’s Northern District, Prosecutors, US, Cornell University, Israel, CNN, Palestinian, Defamation League, Cornell, FBI, Dai, Pittsford Mendon High School, Cornell Police Department, New York, New York State Police Department, Cornell University's Center, Jewish, Cornell University police, New York State Police, Gov, Cornell Center for Jewish, “ Cornell University, ” Cornell University, ” New Locations: Syracuse, New York, West, Broome County, Israel, United States, Pittsburgh , Minnesota, Rhode Island, Ithaca , New York, Cornell’s, Pittsford , New York, Pittsford, Ithaca, Cornell, ” New York, Muslim, Dai

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