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Mar 06 2020
Opinion
How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts
When the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton first published their research on “deaths of despair” five years ago, they focused on middle-aged whites. So many white working-class Americans in their 40s and 50s were dying of suicide, alcoholism and drug abuse that the overall mortality rate for the age group was no longer falling – a rare and shocking pattern in a modern society.
But
New York Times (Opinion)Jun 04 2014
News
Economy’s New Jobs Strain to Deliver Middle-Class Wages
Employment growth continued on its too-slow-but-steady trend in May, when U.S. employers added 217,000 jobs, according to new data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS. The headline unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.3 percent.
Center For American ProgressJun 01 2020
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Violence Escalates As Protests Over George Floyd Death Continue
Protesters staged large-scale demonstrations across the country on Sunday, expressing outrage at the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and, more broadly, anger at police brutality. Some cities, including Minneapolis, Atlanta and Seattle, saw clashes with police, buildings and cars set afire, and looting.
By evening, many demonstrations had given way to another night of violence and
NPR (Online News)May 27 2020
News
Can an army of contact tracers help contain coronavirus?
One of the most intensely debated topics in the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus pandemic has been testing, specifically whether the country is doing enough testing to accurately track the outbreak. Health experts agree that testing capacity is critical, but they also point to another element in an effective virus response that hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention: contact tracing.
Yahoo! The 360Sep 18 2019
News
How to be a human lie detector of fake news, according to the latest science
Fake news existed long before the internet.
In an essay on political lying in the early 18th century, the writer Jonathan Swift noted that "Falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it." You have to hire a train to pull the truth, explained English pastor Charles Spurgeon in the 19th century, while a lie is "light as a feather ... a breath will carry it."
Clearly, humans
CNN (Online News)May 26 2020
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Republican National Convention: Trump threatens to move event from North Carolina
US President Donald Trump has threatened to relocate the Republican National Convention if restrictions are placed on the crowd size due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The event is due to take place in North Carolina from 24-27 August.
On Monday, however, Mr Trump said he would move the site of the convention if "full attendance" is not guaranteed.
Almost 100,000 people have
BBC NewsApr 15 2020
News
Air pollution has dropped by 30% in the Northeast, NASA says. Are coronavirus stay-at-home orders responsible?
Air pollution has dropped by 30% in the big cities of the Northeast over the past few weeks as the coronavirus pandemic worsened and people stayed home, according to NASA satellite data.
In fact, cities such as Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston have seen significant improvement in air quality similar to the improvements in Italy and China during prior coronavirus
USA TODAYApr 13 2020
Background
Privacy laws of the United States
The privacy laws of the United States deal with several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into their private affairs, discloses their private information, publicizes them in a false light, or appropriates their name for personal gain.[1] Public figures
WikipediaAug 29 2013
News
Sequestration Has Nearly 20 Percent of Scientists Contemplating Moving Overseas
New data compiled by a coalition of top scientific and medical research groups show that a large majority of scientists are receiving less federal help than they were three years ago, despite spending far more time writing grants in search of it.
HuffPostJul 27 2020
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Biden takes aim at Trump over coronavirus in new ad blitz courting seniors
It’s been 20 years since a Democratic presidential candidate -- then-Vice President Al Gore in 2000 -- won the senior vote.
But former Vice President Joe Biden is hoping to break his party’s losing streak.
Fox News learned on Monday that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is launching a new ad blitz this week to court voters 65 and older in seven crucial general
Fox News (Online News)