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☆ Midterm elections live updates: Pennsylvania races, New Hampshire Senate race too early to call
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Brandy Zadrozny | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Sahil-Kapur-Headshot.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +109 min

Share this -Link copiedWisconsin Senate and governor's races too early to call It is too early to call the Senate and gubernatorial races in Wisconsin, according to NBC News. Share this -Link copiedNew Hampshire Senate race too early to call The Senate race in New Hampshire is too early to call, according to NBC News. Share this -Link copiedPennsylvania Senate and governor races are too early to call After polls closed at 8 p.m. While Maricopa County election officials initially categorized the problem as a “hiccup,” it took hours before a solution was identified early Tuesday afternoon. In Columbus County, election officials allegedly were harassed by an “observer following one-stop workers” and photographing or filming the workers, it said.

While Maricopa County election officials initially categorized the problem as a “hiccup,” it took hours before a solution was identified early Tuesday afternoon. According to the poll, 46% of voters said their family’s financial situation is worse than it was two years ago. Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP, filed a similar complaint Friday against state election officials. The app and portal had been down for part of the morning and the state's election hotline also briefly experienced issues. In Columbus County, election officials allegedly were harassed by an “observer following one-stop workers” and photographing or filming the workers, it said.

☆ If a recession comes, don't count on unemployment insurance — states aren't ready to give you benefits
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The result: Many states pay little and for fewer weeks, and it takes over a month to get benefits. And, if you do need to access UI benefits, they might not arrive for a while. Right now, according to the TCF report, just 15 states are doing that. Black workers are more likely to live in states with lower benefits. Many states have cut how many weeks workers are eligible for benefits over the last decade or so.

☆ Student-loan companies who want to sue the government to stop Biden's student-loan forgiveness are on their own, a judge just ruled — states can't do it on their behalf
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A judge dismissed a lawsuit six GOP-led states filed against Biden's student-loan forgiveness. He said the states didn't have standing to sue on behalf of student-loan company MOHELA. The company is financially independent from the states and can sue on its own, the judge said. On Thursday evening, Republican-appointed Judge Henry Edward Autrey dismissed a lawsuit filed in Missouri by six Republican-led states who sued to stop Biden's debt relief, arguing it would hurt their states' tax revenues along with that of Missouri-based student-loan company MOHELA. Earlier this week, the Cato Institute — a Koch-backed libertarian think-tank — filed its own lawsuit against student-loan forgiveness, and next week, a federal judge is holding a hearing for a lawsuit filed by conservative group the Job Creators Network.

☆ The hidden side effect of overturning Roe v. Wade
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-12 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Which means that, to a large extent, we won't know how the court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is actually the health and wellbeing of women and children. We could maybe look at all pregnancy-related emergency department visits, or look at changes in miscarriage and abortion numbers before and after. But even in the days of Roe, some states — including California — refused to provide abortion data to the CDC. Abortion data, like abortions themselves, have largely been subjected to a political debate over rights, at the expense of actual knowledge. They need numbers, they need facts, they need stories."

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