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President Joe BIden sat down with Univision reporter Enrique Acevedo in the Oval Office for an wide-ranging interview that ran Tuesday evening. The interview comes after months of well-deserved criticism over an “exclusive” puff-piece interview Acevedo...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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America’s employers delivered another outpouring of jobs in March, adding a sizzling 303,000 workers to their payrolls and bolstering hopes that the economy can vanquish inflation without succumbing to a recession in the face of high interest rates....
by Associated Press
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 06:02 AM PDT
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As reports and surveys indicate a creeping nostalgia and collective amnesia about Donald Trump’s presidency, one of his worst ideas is gaining steam again: tariffs. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes spent the first part of his Wednesday night broadcast breaking down...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Last week, The Economist's presidential polling average set in motion a reevaluation of the general election when President Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump for the first time since September 2023. To be clear, Biden isn't suddenly the odds-on...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 03:15 PM PDT
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I have been hearing about efforts to help the homeless, here in Wichita, Kansas.
I started thinking about the topic, and some ideas came to me.
I am not an expert of any kind, but as I was ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 10:01 PM PDT
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Just a follow up on the recent top quality diaries by ericlewis0 and Kerry Eleveld on President Biden’s fundraising surge since the State of the Union address, and the strongly positive reception he and his policies have gotten. (Even more amazing...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 11:28 AM PST
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This is going to be short today. The BLS Jobs Report for February is out and as usual now the 275,000 jobs added exceeded the 199,000 expectations. At the same time the Household survey part of the report has the Unemployment rate rising to 3.9% (still...
by Judeling
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on Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 06:50 AM PST
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A data wonk kind of diary here but thought it would be worth mentioning just to show how completely unreliable and off the mark the polling “science” has become lately, latest data point being the Republican primary results. To make it clear, not...
by Tweedledee5
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 10:18 PM PST
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The eight counties that make up California’s San Joaquin Valley Air District form the nation’s most productive farming area. In 2022, it produced citrus, almonds, tomatoes, pistachios, walnuts, alfalfa, corn, winter wheat, rice, livestock, and other...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Monday, Mar 4, 2024 · 4:59:53 PM +00:00 · Dem A statement " diagnosis at a distance is always fraught" is a claim that the authors of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" dispute because the least reliable source of information is the in person...
by Dem
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 08:06 AM PST
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After a less than exhaustive search I find that there is a plant in Iowa making 155MM shells that Ukraine likes and uses. The plant is due for $1.2 billion in upgrades. Why would Iowanians want to lose all that revenue and the associated jobs? There...
by WheninRome
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 02:56 AM PST
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Last week the evidence that Bidenomics is working spectacularly well was revealed in the monthly jobs report that far exceeded expectations. That performance has become routine during President Biden's term in office as his agenda of building the...
by News Corpse
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 12:45 PM PST
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[This piece is appearing this weekend as a newspaper op/ed/] ************************* It’s an old story-- new technologies replacing the labor of people with well-developed and valuable skills. Over thousands of years, many peoples around the world...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 08:03 AM PST
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What did the FBI miss in Trump’s hidden room at Mar-a-Lago? It’s one thing to miss a closet when you’re searching a 126-room mansion, but it’s another story when it’s purposely locked. Jim Jordan’s using subpoenas to do Trump’s dirty work again The...
by Jen Hayden
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 01:54 PM PST
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Friday's jobs report from the Department of Labor shows that the U.S. added an impressive 353,000 jobs in January. Unemployment remained at just 3.7%. The unemployment rate has been under 4% for two ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 03:45 PM PST
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The nation’s employers delivered a stunning burst of hiring to begin 2024, adding 353,000 jobs in January in the latest sign of the economy’s continuing ability to shrug off the highest interest rates in two decades. Friday’s report from the Labor...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 06:15 AM PST
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On Thursday, President Joe Biden was in Wisconsin to announce nearly $5 billion in new infrastructure spending as a result of the infrastructure bill he signed in 2021. The legislation is responsible for more than 44,000 projects in all 50 states. And...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM PST
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The economy has in modern times been judged by one number more than any other and that’s the unemployment rate. There are a bunch of numbers that are also used in addition to the unemployment rate, but that’s the main one. Moving the goal posts on...
by Dem
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 08:08 AM PST
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President Joe Biden has been having some fun with the economists whose predictions about the economy were so wrong. He jabbed back: “Experts, from the time I got elected, were insisting that a recession was just around the corner. Every month, there...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Reposted from My Substack In this video of interviews with Trump supporters, you will see and hear the wildest false theories on Earth. And they just keep coming. Q: If Donald Trump doesn’t win what are you gonna do? #MAGA Woman #1: I think I’m gonna...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Thu Jan 11, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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