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Jan 08 2016
News
Hiring Ends Year on Strong Note, but Wage Growth Remains Sluggish
Employers capped last year with impressive job growth in December, the latest sign of a stable U.S. economy despite international headwinds that have worsened since 2016 began.
Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 292,000 in December, the Labor Department said Friday. The unemployment rate, obtained through a separate survey, held steady at 5% last month. The unemployment
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Dec 03 2020
Analysis
The China Challenge Can Help America Avert Decline
When U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office—likely masked and surrounded by socially distanced officials and family—he will look out on a country that many believe is in decline. The problems that propelled President Donald Trump to office, including a collapsing middle class and toxic internal divisions, remain. And Trump will bequeath new ills to his successor: a runaway
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Jun 09 2021
Analysis
New York gave every detained immigrant a lawyer. It could serve as a national model.
Biden wants to expand immigrants’ access to legal representation.
Deportation can carry grave consequences. An immigrant might have to leave behind their family, abandon years-long ties to their community, and return to a country where they may have previously faced threats to their life and livelihood — even the kind that might have qualified them for humanitarian protection in the US
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Mar 15 2021
News
Hints of strategy and new revelations in first week of Derek Chauvin murder trial
Legal twists and turns marked the first week of the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes during an investigation last year. A dispute over the reinstatement of a third-degree murder charge against Chauvin nearly stopped the trial before it started. Then, just before the
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Jul 15 2021
News
Homeland Security chief says U.S. will not give refuge to those fleeing Cuba and Haiti by boat
People fleeing Cuba and Haiti by boat will not be allowed to enter the U.S., even if they demonstrate fear of being persecuted or tortured in their home countries, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned on Tuesday.
"Allow me to be clear: if you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States," Mayorkas said, highlighting the dangers of traversing the Caribbean Sea
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Jan 23 2020
News
Operation Encore and the Saudi Connection: A Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation
On the morning of Sept. 11 last year, about two dozen family members of those killed in the terror attacks filed into the White House to visit with President Donald Trump. It was a choreographed, somewhat stiff encounter, in which each family walked to the center of the Blue Room to share a moment of conversation with Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, before having a photograph taken
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Mar 25 2022
Perspectives Blog
How AllSides is Helping Amid Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine that, just one month later, had left thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians dead. Millions of refugees have fled Ukraine to other parts of the world. Energy costs have soared in the U.S. and elsewhere amid import bans and market instability. Europe’s economy is feeling the ripple
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Jul 16 2020
Analysis
The Truth About Trump’s Evangelical Support
Donald Trump has never pretended to practice traditional Christian virtues. Yet in 2016 he earned 81 percent of the white evangelical vote—a higher percentage than George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, or John McCain. Trump’s success surprised a lot of us: How could a group of staunchly moral religious voters give their support to a man with a long track record of lying, cheating, using profanity, and
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Aug 12 2020
Background
The implications of inequalities in contraception and abortion
Apoor woman is about five times as likely as an affluent woman to have an unintended birth, which further deepens the divides in income, family stability, and child outcomes. But what is behind the gap? That is the question we address in our new paper, Sex, contraception, or abortion? Explaining class gaps in unintended childbearing, and accompanying data interactive.
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Jan 20 2020
News
NYT editorial board endorses Warren, Klobuchar for Democratic nomination for president
The New York Times editorial board on Sunday night endorsed both Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for the Democratic nomination for president.
The dual endorsement, a break in convention for the Times, comes just two weeks before the first primary contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, where Warren has remained a top contender while Klobuchar has struggled to
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