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The horse race isn’t really relevant right now. For one thing it can change, for another swing states are what matter, but there’s a lot more to polling that is of interest. Last week Kerry Eleveld, a DK staffer here made a post showing how polling...
by Somchai
on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 05:22 PM PDT
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The Biden campaign has been making an explicit effort to troll Donald Trump into a frenzy by doing things he despises, like calling him "a loser" of the 2020 election. But in truth, nothing President Joe Biden has done to date has proven more...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 09:27 PM PST
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A summary from MarketWatch: PCE* inflation index drops 0.1% in November. First decline since April 2020 Core PCE climbs 0.1% in November, matches Wall Street forecast 12-month increase in main PCE index slows to 2.6% from 2.9%. Lowest rate since early...
by accumbens
on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 05:42 AM PST
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We learned this week from Kos that�the business has lost a significant source of income. �This has resulted in a significant shortfall and the announced layoffs to cover the shortfall. �Reducing ...
by Peter Olandt
on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 06:11 AM PST
with 21 Recommends
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One dismal legacy of the right wing Coalition’s nine years in office in Australia is the greatest disparity in income between workers and corporations in Australia’s recorded history. Last week’s national accounts from the Australian Bureau of...
by Alan Austin
on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 07:54 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Given that Republicans like to call themselves the party of family values, it’s with rich irony that they continue to fight to keep free breakfast and lunch from kids. During the height of the ...
by Marissa Higgins
on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 07:45 AM PDT
with 125 Recommends
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As Daily Kos continues to cover, conservatives are attacking LGBTQ+ people—and especially LGBTQ+ youth—from every angle possible. Sports? Keep the trans girls on the sidelines. Bathrooms? Isolate and embarrass. Locker rooms? Same deal. Overnight field...
by Marissa Higgins
on Thu Sep 01, 2022 at 09:51 AM PDT
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by Cirien Saadeh This story was originally published at Prism . In 2020, St. Paul, Minnesota, launched a guaranteed basic income pilot project, providing $500 to 150 families for up to ...
by Prism Guest Writer
on Wed Feb 16, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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The ultimate goal in our current phase of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is to vaccinate as many eligible people who can safely be vaccinated. On the one hand, there are people who are vaccine-eligible but simply opting out, which is deeply frustrating...
by Marissa Higgins
on Thu Feb 10, 2022 at 12:31 PM PST
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While life during the novel coronavirus pandemic has been easy for no one, it’s been especially challenging for people who are caretakers, whether that includes children, older folks in the home, disabled family members, or so on. Caretaking is...
by Marissa Higgins
on Fri Feb 04, 2022 at 12:48 PM PST
with 53 Recommends
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As the nation has faced the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, there’s been a crucial conversation about food insecurity. As Daily Kos has covered, we’ve seen unusually long lines at food banks and schools scrambling to get enough food into cafeterias...
by Marissa Higgins
on Fri Oct 22, 2021 at 02:27 PM PDT
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Just as predicted, the “budget hawks,” an apparently endangered species for the previous four years, have come back in great numbers now that President Joe Biden (D) has been president long enough to propose several bold spending plans and get one of...
by Alonso del Arte
on Tue May 25, 2021 at 12:12 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Quakers have historically taken unpopular stances throughout history. We favored abolition and freed our slaves before most others did. We allowed women the right to participate in Worship, providing them the agency to contribute vocal ministry...
by cabaretic
on Fri Jan 29, 2021 at 08:53 AM PST
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An article published today in Australia shows the right-wing pro-Trump Morrison Government is consolidating its place in history as Australia’s worst-ever economic manager and, with the Trump regime, among the worst in the developed world today....
by Alan Austin
on Mon Nov 30, 2020 at 03:43 AM PST
with 15 Recommends
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Whether you celebrate a religious holiday or not, the winter season often involves some form of gift-giving. Perhaps that’s within your immediate or extended family, coworkers, or friends. Whether ...
by Marissa Higgins
on Fri Nov 27, 2020 at 02:00 PM PST
with 46 Recommends
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The annual ranking by Independent Australia today shows the US economy now ranks 26th in the world. In a shock revelation, it is now proven that Trump’s tweets claiming his economy is ”world’s best” are not actually true. Taiwan leads...
by Alan Austin
on Fri Nov 13, 2020 at 04:12 AM PST
with 29 Recommends
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Five countries have mismanaged their federal budgets through the Covid-19 pandemic worse than all other nations. That’s according to the annual Global Wealth Report published earlier today by financial giant Credit Suisse. Of the 44 major global...
by Alan Austin
on Thu Oct 22, 2020 at 05:26 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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The Republican’s biggest lie is that they are the party of business, prosperity and fiscal rectitude. There is no evidence to support this proposition. Time and again, analyses show that employment, GDP, and stock markets do better under Democratic...
by TheCriticalMind
on Thu Sep 24, 2020 at 04:13 PM PDT
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On Labor Day in America, let’s take a few minutes to think about how well our socialist / capitalist economy is working for all of us. Here are a few questions that you may not realize you have been wondering about. Are wealth and wealth inequality the...
by liberaldad2
on Mon Sep 07, 2020 at 04:39 PM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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Jesus says it's harder to push a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven.� I think the problem is that the rich can buy their way out of situations that would ...
by SolarKitty
on Sun Aug 30, 2020 at 10:00 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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