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Aug 12 2020
Data
Unemployment rate is higher than officially recorded, more so for women and certain other groups
The COVID-19 outbreak has presented a unique set of measurement challenges for statistical agencies. Most recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the U.S. unemployment rate stood at 13% in May 2020, nonseasonally adjusted. At the same time, the bureau noted that the rate may have been as high as 16% if not for an error in the classification of the employment status of
Feb 16 2021
News
Cash for kids: Emerging plans to fight child poverty
The United States has one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the developed world. More than 11 million American children lived in poverty in 2019, a figure that’s expected to grow once data on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic becomes available. In the past week, two plans have emerged in Washington that take widely different approaches to achieving the same goal: combating
Yahoo! The 360Dec 26 2019
News
How Close Did Russia Really Come to Hacking the 2016 Election?
On November 6, 2016, the Sunday before the presidential election that sent Donald Trump to the White House, a worker in the elections office in Durham County, North Carolina, encountered a problem.
There appeared to be an issue with a crucial bit of software that handled the county’s list of eligible voters. To prepare for Election Day, staff members needed to load the voter data from a
PoliticoJun 06 2014
News
GOP's quiet Obamacare disaster: How this week's biggest story got overlooked
While everyone obsessed over the Bergdahl flap, the real story was revealed by a nomination hearing and new data.
SalonNov 17 2019
News
Trump undergoes tests at Walter Reed as part of annual physical, White House says
President Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday, undergoing what the White House said were medical tests as part of his annual physical.
The appointment -- which followed a previous exam in February -- didn't appear on the president's public schedule, as was the case for his physicals last year and this year. White House press secretary
Fox News DigitalMay 20 2020
News
States Step Up Reopenings, Hoping to Limit Economic Damage
U.S. states and governments around the world are trying to revive their economies after months of shutdowns, as they take tentative steps to ease restrictions imposed to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
State governments in the U.S. estimate the collective expense of fighting the pandemic at some $45 billion, which most want the federal government to repay in full, rather than be
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 27 2017
Opinion
OPINION: Supreme court cellphone case puts free speech – not just privacy – at risk
On Wednesday, the supreme court will consider whether the government must obtain a warrant before accessing the rich trove of data that cellphone providers collect about cellphone users’ movements. Among scholars and campaigners, there is broad agreement that the case could yield the most consequential privacy ruling in a generation.
Guest Writer - LeftApr 24 2021
Fact Check
Could the mRNA Vaccines Permanently Alter DNA?
An article from The Defender, a news website that describes itself as “an online news site to evade official censorship, to report fact-based news and sponsor the kind of honest debate that terrifies the new generation of corporate and government commissars,” claims that scientific research suggests that coronavirus mRNA vaccines might “permanently alter DNA.”
The Defender piece cites
The DispatchJul 16 2020
News
Prison Populations Drop by 100,000 During Pandemic
RICHMOND, Va. — Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a probation violation when she heard she’d be going home three weeks early because of COVID-19.It made her feel bad to leave when she had so few days left at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. She said she wasn’t sick, and, as far as she knew, there were no cases at the facility. There were others still
The Marshall ProjectMay 19 2020
News
Politics could dictate who gets a coronavirus vaccine
Deciding which groups come next is fraught with ethical dilemmas and ripe for political power plays.
The promise of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year creates a difficult political and public health question: Who gets the vaccine first?
Health care workers would be among the first to receive any vaccine so they can continue to work the pandemic’s front lines. But
Politico