#America

Labor force participation rate for men:This chart should make your eyes pop.Look at the downward trend over time and then look closely at what happened in 2008-2010.Forget about the unemployment
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It's hard to find words about #GeorgeFloyd, but I'm going to try; for my own sake as much as for anyone who may care to listen. The overwhelming feeling I
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NEW: Systemic racism built Mississippi. Gov. Tate Reeves claims it doesn't exist.But this isn't a report about what "both sides are saying." This is an in-depth look at the facts—which
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The first campaign I ever worked on was #GeraldineFerraro based in Philadelphia. It was heady time to be young woman. Roe was decade old. So was law extending contraception to
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“There is no legal meaning. It’s just a phrase. Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.”Mark Potok (May 2013)SPLC Spokesman Mike Sledge - “Who gets the last say”
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yall don’t get tired lol? like y’all fr stay talking about us n keeping us relevant tho so like which is it lmaohttps://twitter.com/skinnnylisa/status/1277537526690037765 now i hate america like the next
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1. Breaking: We are amassing a body of research on the likely impact of the pandemic on children's learning. The news is not good. Some students will lose up
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It is common knowledge that the Pilgrims were a group of English people who came to America seeking religious freedom during the reign of King James I. I always thought
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Still thinking about the music industry:2017: "Did you know that 96% of all internet users consume licensed music? And 46% of all music streaming happens through YouTube?"https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/09/19/ifpi-2017-music
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Today is bad. All of the days are bad, but today is bad. Fucked vibes. It's bad. Bad things are happening and bad things are going to keep happening A
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The numbers are off the chart because this isn’t a recession or depression. This is more like the first successful invasion of America, by a virus.Things break in wartime that
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The Worst American HypocrisyNo, this isn’t about the naked power grab by President Trump and the Republican Party to create a conservative Supreme Court supermajority after holding a Supreme Court
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How the unevenness of America's democracy threatens to unravel it, by @baseballot, @elena___mejia and me:https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/advantage-gop/Or, in other words, how Republicans have harnessed political institutions to gai
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1/ Just had a good chat with family members. The question on the table was who will heal the nation after Trump? The answers were predictable: moderate Dems who preach
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questions i have for non-cubans: a thread (qrt only) what is the capital of cuba what music comes from cuba? name one do you know who this bastard is what
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Yesterday, I tweeted about BOE candidate Sezin Palmer’s behavior toward a black woman when discussing the topic of segregation, and her dismissal of the idea of white privilege. /1 Jerry,
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