The latest federal unemployment statistics, released August 5, show a 9.5 percent July unemployment rate, unchanged since June. The total number of unemployed people, both those officially counted because they have actively sought work within the past four weeks, plus those who are marginally attached to the labor force, or work part time for economic reasons, also remained the same, at 16.5 percent. Continue reading
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Indictment, Extradition, Et Cetera
Bragg’s office has been tight-lipped about the investigation and indictment, but plenty of other people are talking, including the biggest mouth on the planet. Trump on Truth Social: “These Thugs and Radical Left Monsters have just INDICATED the 45th President of the United States of America …” What happens next? Probably not a perp walk or […]
Fact Checking Republican Lies About Crime
Scare stories about crime have been a staple of Republican campaign ads for decades. This year is the worst I’ve ever seen. That’s a big part of the reason that fear of crime is rising, even when crime is not. In Minnesota, lying Republican ads attack Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. Even […]
Countdown to November 8
Georgia celebrated a record first-day early voting turnout of more than 131,000 on October 17. In contrast, armed and masked vigilantes intimidated voters at ballot drop boxes in Arizona. Georgia’s turnout represents the best of U.S. democracy. Arizona represents the dark future if election deniers and proponents of the Big Lie win.
Attacking voting rights
Attacks on voting rights began long before the 2020 election, with moves by Congress and the Supreme Court to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The attacks continue in this electoral cycle, with intimidation of voters, restrictions on absentee voting, and laws designed to make in-person voting more difficult, especially for voters of color and […]
Threats to election officials
Elections depend on loyal election officials, many of them volunteers, all committed to free and fair elections. Some are paid, full-time government employees, working year-round to make sure that elections run smoothly. Some are your neighbors, volunteering from 6 am to 9 pm in polling places on election days. Now more than one in five U.S. […]
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- Mary Turck is a writer, editor, and blogger. She is also the former editor of theTC Daily Planet and of the award-winning Connection to the Americas and AMERICAS.ORG and a recovering attorney.
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