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Sep 16 2015
News
New Census Data Show that the Middle Class Is Not Recovering Fast Enough
The new data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau show that America’s middle class is still struggling to fully recover from the Great Recession and more than four decades of unequal growth. Typical household incomes remain far below 1990s highs and, in fact, are close to the level they were in 1989. Meanwhile, middle-class families struggle to keep up with the rising costs of key
Center For American ProgressSep 13 2015
News
True Believer? Why Donald Trump Is The Choice Of The Religious Right
When Donald Trump stepped to the podium in a football stadium in Mobile, Alabama, filled with 30,000 people there to hear him spread the gospel of Trump, he was overcome.
"Now I know how the great Billy Graham felt," Trump said last month.
Trump and Graham, the famed Baptist revival preacher and counselor to presidents, are not exactly cut from the same cloth. And yet, Trump is
NPR (Online News)Feb 13 2013
Opinion
This time, a president in full
It is sometimes said of a great actor that he could hold an audience spellbound while reading a laundry list. This is essentially what President Obama tried to do on Tuesday night. As State of the Union addresses go, his was artless. It lacked inspired phrases or compelling narrative. Save for the energy he gave it at key moments, it was pedestrian.
CNN (Online News)Nov 13 2020
News
Virus Cases Reach New Highs in U.S., Prompting Talk of More Lockdowns
The coronavirus pandemic is spreading with frightening speed throughout the United States, shattering records on a daily basis, stretching medical resources to the breaking point and once again prompting states, counties and cities to consider economically devastating lockdowns.
On Thursday, public health officials recorded more than 150,000 new cases in a day for the first time — more
New York Times (News)Aug 17 2020
Analysis
This is the future Joe Biden wants
But can he break from his past to get there?
When I asked Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, what the former vice president’s plan for his first 100 days in office was, her answer was blunt.
“Wouldn’t everybody like to know?”
Sanders was being coy — in fact, she had just finished walking me through Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, an umbrella
VoxMay 17 2016
News
Newt Gingrich’s Sad Audition To Be Donald Trump’s Vice President
Now that reality-television star and gilded yeti Donald Trump has pretty much secured the GOP nomination, attention has begun to shift to who might claim the honor of being Trump’s running mate. This should naturally be of great interest to everyone, if for no other reason than the person chosen may well be left holding the bag when Donald Trump finds out just how hard being president is. (He
SalonAug 31 2015
News
We need some moderate Republicans to start running for Congress. Too bad they’re not likely to do so.
Hey, you! Any interest in running for the US House or, maybe better, the US Senate? A few seats are up for grabs in 2016. It's a very powerful, prestigious, decently well-paying job. Lots of important decisions. Great on a résumé.
What's that you say? Not interested. Not for you? Yeah, I get it. I wouldn't want to run for Congress either. I know, you're probably a reasonable person, a
VoxJan 26 2020
News
Scientist who simulated the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak says ‘the cat’s already out of the bag’ and calls China’s efforts to contain the disease ‘unlikely to be effective’
Scientist and scholar Eric Toner, quoted above in an excerpt from a Friday interview with the business-news channel CNBC, explained that China’s efforts to contain the current outbreak of a fast-moving upper-respiratory illness are “unlikely to be effective.”
The comments come as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a second case of coronavirus in the U.S. Late
MarketWatchOct 25 2012
News
Homestretch Fact-Stretchers
In the homestretch to Election Day, both sides stretch the facts in their TV spots. President Obama greatly exaggerates his differences with Mitt Romney over troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, while Romney repeats a false claim that the president plans a $4,000 tax increase on “the middle class.
FactCheck.orgApr 15 2020
News
Black Businesses Matter, But Will They Get Fair Share Of COVID-19 Aid Money?
“African Americans never really recovered from the housing crash and economic meltdown and that reality is going to be a very important factor for Black people, especially since the U.S. may be going into some form of depression,” said Bill Fletcher Jr., former president of TransAfrica Forum and a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies. “I saw a report last week that shows the
Chicago Defender