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Sep 14 2020
News
U.S. bans some imports of cotton, other products from Xinjiang made with forced labor
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a series of orders on Monday barring some imports of cotton, apparel, hair products, computer parts and other goods from China's Xinjiang region due to the government's "illicit, inhumane, and exploitative practices of forced labor."
Why it matters: The Trump administration is taking an increasingly aggressive approach to human rights abuses in
AxiosJun 19 2021
News
For The U.S. Census, Keeping Your Data Anonymous And Useful Is A Tricky Balance
As the country waits for more results from last year's national head count, the U.S. Census Bureau is facing an increasingly tricky balancing act.
How will the largest public data source in the United States continue to protect people's privacy while also sharing the detailed demographic information used for redrawing voting districts, guiding federal funding, and informing policymaking
NPR (Online News)Oct 23 2020
Analysis
The cliffhanger could be ... Georgia
It hasn't backed a Democrat for president since 1992, but Georgia's changing demographics may prove pivotal this year — not only to Trump v. Biden, but also to whether Democrats take control of the Senate.
Why it matters: If the fate of the Senate did hinge on Georgia, it might be January before we know the outcome. Meanwhile, voters' understanding of this power in the final days of the
AxiosNov 12 2013
News
Poll shows Republicans losing ethnicity, age battle in California
Deep inside a new USC/Los Angeles Times poll are details that could make the California Republican Party, and by extension its cohorts elsewhere in the country, fear anew the march of time and demographics.
Chicago TribuneApr 06 2022
News
Ohio and Texas May Take a Page from Florida’s Playbook
On the menu today: Republicans in Texas and Ohio consider following in Florida’s footsteps on keeping controversial sexual topics out of children’s classrooms and what Elon Musk might do now that he’s Twitter’s largest shareholder.
Conservative States Consider Copying Florida
In Ohio, Republicans have introduced legislation similar to Florida’s recently enacted law prohibiting
National Review (News)Aug 12 2021
News
Census Data Show America’s White Population Shrank for First Time in U.S. History
The first detailed results of the 2020 census show that the total white population shrank for the first time in the nation’s history as the U.S. diversified and continued to grow more rapidly in the South and Southwest.
The non-Hispanic white population dropped 2.6% between 2010 and 2020, a decline that puts that group’s share of the total U.S. population below 60%.
The nation’s
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 04 2022
Opinion
If It's Really a 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated,' Mr. President, Why Is My Vaccinated 6-Year-Old Wearing a Mask?
President Joe Biden on Tuesday afternoon made some more public remarks about the still-spiking omicron variant of COVID-19. It wasn't pretty.
Of particular interest was the president's insistence on continuing to call it a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," a slogan that was unwise in July, untrue by December, and unbelievable at a time when the positive case rate in a 62 percent fully
ReasonOct 18 2012
News
Rival Campaigns Intently Pursue Votes of Women
With Election Day looming, the push for votes is coming down not only to a state-by-state fight, but also to one for the allegiance of vital demographic groups, chief among them undecided women.
New York Times (News)Jan 22 2017
News
Democrats Agree on What They Need to Do. The Question Is How
Democratic operatives and donors gathered this weekend to mount a call for the party to take back state legislatures, improve outreach to certain demographics and launch an effective resistance to President Donald Trump. Still unclear, after 48 hours of soul-searching and networking at a lavish Florida resort: how to do that.
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 12 2020
Data
Views on race and immigration
Some of the starkest partisan divides on political values are seen in views about race and immigration: Democrats are substantially more likely than Republicans to say that the country has not gone far enough to give black people equal rights and that white people benefit from societal advantages that black people do not have. Democrats also express more positive views of immigrants and the
Pew Research Center