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Thursday, September 19, 2024

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed more than 500 points higher, up 1.3% on the day. The S&P 500, the broadest index of publicly traded companies, added 1.7% and also touched new highs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose more than 2.5%, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies added 2.1%. read more


Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday described in detail what it's like for many women to have to travel out of their home state to access abortion care, marking the first time in recent memory that such a prominent political figure has magnified the real-life hurdles to obtaining care. read more


Iranian hackers sent people associated with President Joe Biden's campaign unsolicited information that was stolen from former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday. The announcement is the latest in a series of warnings by federal cybersecurity officials about Iran's efforts to meddle in the upcoming election, including taking specific steps to release information about Trump's campaign. read more


Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris has supported bipartisan border security solutions and has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to working with regional partners to address the root causes of irregular migration. The current administration's focus evolved to leading a hemisphere-wide effort to mitigate, manage, and order migration through creating and adopting the landmark Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection alongside 21 partners from across the region - notably the first time such a hemispheric-wide agreement directly involved the United States and Canada. read more


A Voters of Tomorrow spokesperson said a phone bank conducted jointly with Swifties for Kamala volunteers helped it hit one million voter engagements, which includes 200,000 calls and 800,000 texts mostly to Gen Zers - a generation that encompasses 41 million people eligible to vote in November. Its main goal is registering voters and helping them make a plan for voting. read more


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Republicans voted against everything else in the bill.

No they didn't you reprobate liar. Sen. Lankford authored the bill, one of the most conservative Senators in the GOP. The Republicans had no issues with the bill and said so.

"I followed the instructions of my conference who were insisting that we tackle this in October. It's actually our side that wanted to tackle the border issue. We started it," Sen. McConnell said. "Things have changed over the last four months."

www.nbcnews.com

Everyone with eyes and ears knows what happened "over the last four months": Donald Trump told his party members to reject the bipartisan bill.
The easiest explanation is that Republicans in both the House and Senate yielded to objections from their all-but-certain presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump.

Many Republicans are prepared to wait until 2025 to address border security. If Donald Trump defeats President Biden and reenters the Oval Office, they believe that they will get everything they want without enacting compromise legislation that would limit Trump's powers. In the meantime, they believe, the issue is damaging Biden, and they do not see why they should help him during an election year.

www.brookings.edu

Boom goes the dynamite and Leftturds just got blown to smithereens.

It's already playing out in the homebuying market, where mortgage applications have risen for four consecutive weeks and six of the last seven as mortgage rates fell to their lowest level in two years - about 6.2% - in anticipation of the Fed's move.

"The continued decline in mortgage rates is giving the mortgage market a much-needed boost," Bob Broeksmit, the president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, said in a statement.
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In remarks on Thursday at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Biden said, "Yesterday was an important day for the country."

"Two and a half years after the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates, it announced that it began lowering interest rates," Biden said. "I think it's good news for consumers, and that means the cost of buying a home, a car, and so much more would be going down. And it's good news in my view, for the overall economy."

"At its peak, as you all know, inflation was 9.1% in the United States. Today it's much closer to 2%," Biden said. "It doesn't mean our work is done. Far from it. Far from it, no one should confused why I'm here. I'm not here to take a victory lap. I'm not here to say, A job well done.' I'm not here to say We don't have a hell of a lot more work to do.' We do have more work to do."

abcnews.go.com

This is what competent, forward-looking leadership looks like, always keeping your eye on both the realities of today and the promise of tomorrow.

Joe and Kamala's stewardship of the American economy through the unprecedented upheaval of the Covid pandemic will be looked back on as masterful by those critiquing our journey in the future.

Thanks Joe. You were indeed a bridge to America's future - post Covid - while Trump remains obsessed with an America that never was and certainly won't be, as his focus is stuck on an imaginary past that isn't returning.

If a city has 22% unemployment and citizens are moving out because they can't find work

More Visitor BS from Russian disinformation.

What's behind the rise of Haitians in Springfield?

Thousands of new jobs had been created there, thanks to a successful effort by the city's leadership and Chamber of Commerce to attract new business to Springfield, which sits between Columbus and Dayton. Once a manufacturing hub, Springfield saw its economy shrink after factories closed and jobs migrated overseas. By about 2015, its population had dwindled to under 60,000, from about 80,000 in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Companies that set up shop, however, confronted a dire labor shortage.

Haitians in Florida, Haiti and South America heard from friends and family about Springfield and its need for workers. They began arriving to take jobs in warehouses, manufacturing and the service sector, and employers urged the new workers to encourage other Haitians to join them.

Springfield has struggled to handle soaring demand placed on health care, housing, schools and roads.

Some initiatives already underway include offering English language classes, driving courses and instruction about finances and the U.S. banking system.

Gov. Mike DeWine announced last week that the state would provide Springfield with $2.5 million to ease strains on primary health care and would deploy members of the state highway patrol to improve road safety.

The mayor of Springfield, Rob Rue, said that he was still hoping to receive federal assistance.

Springfield Ohio's unemployment rate thru the years. anyone with eyes and a brain with notice that the city during the period of growth started in 2015 there has only been a brief period during mid 2020 where Springfield's unemployment rate spiked at 16.5 % and dropped down to 5.5% by November.

Never trust a liar who refuses to support their data with links.

This is obviously speculation.

No it isn't if you listen to Trump repeatedly saying that millions of undocumenteds enter under Biden's open border policies. 360,000 is not anywhere close to even one million annually, is it?

Back in March, Donald Trump said 15 million migrants had crossed the United States border over two years.

By August that number was down to 10 million since President Biden took office, then back up to 15 million.

In more recent rallies, it's topped 20 million.

www.newsweek.com

Can't keep up with the narrative, huh?
From October 2020 through last month, there have been 10.6 million "encounters" by border patrol officers, with over eight million of those happening at the southwest border with Mexico. Between 2017 and 2020, the four years of Trump's presidency, that number was just over three million.

An encounter, as defined by the CBP, includes people attempting to enter the country or apprehended trying to cross the border without inspection, either crossing between ports of entry or arriving without an appointment or proper documentation.

The latest statistics from the Census Bureau, released early September, showed the share of the U.S. population, both legal and illegal, rose by three million between 2020 and 2023. The total immigrant population was thought to be 47.8 million, which includes the millions of immigrants living and working in the U.S. with legal status.

That number, which is lower than estimates laid out by the bureau in 2017, has not been the one used by Trump in his recent speeches. At one point during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the former president claimed 21 million were crossing the border every month.

Latest monthly figures for August 2024 showed that around 58,000 people were encountered by CBP officers, down 68 percent year-over-year.

Receipts Oneiron. Try bringing some to our next discussion.

It's called critical thinking,

It's called sloth and ignorance, and they make quite the combination in the hands of an imbecile like yourself.

Over the last few years, many immigrants from Haiti have settled in Springfield, Ohio, drawn by the low cost of living and plentiful jobs.

Thousands of new jobs had been created there, thanks to a successful effort by the city's leadership and Chamber of Commerce to attract new business to Springfield, which sits between Columbus and Dayton. Once a manufacturing hub, Springfield saw its economy shrink after factories closed and jobs migrated overseas. By about 2015, its population had dwindled to under 60,000, from about 80,000 in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Companies that set up shop, however, confronted a dire labor shortage.

Haitians in Florida, Haiti and South America heard from friends and family about Springfield and its need for workers. They began arriving to take jobs in warehouses, manufacturing and the service sector, and employers urged the new workers to encourage other Haitians to join them.

What started as a trickle swelled to a surge after the Covid-19 pandemic, coinciding with deepening political and economic instability in Haiti after the assassination of the president in 2021. Some of the Haitians in Springfield have lived in the United States for many years and have permanent legal status, or green cards. Some crossed the southern border or flew directly to the United States over the last few years.

Many are beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status, a federal designation that gives nationals of a country in crisis - typically after a natural disaster or political upheaval - the opportunity to remain in the United States legally, regardless of whether they entered the country lawfully.

The Biden administration granted Temporary Protected Status through Feb. 3, 2026 for Haitians who arrived in the United States on or before June 3, 2024, and that status can be renewed. Haiti is one of a number of countries whose nationals can qualify for TPS, including Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia and is at war.

Some of the Haitians in Springfield have applied for asylum, which allows them to remain in the country until their case has been adjudicated by immigration authorities. Still others have been aided by a Biden administration initiative that enables people from Haiti who have a financial sponsor in the United States to apply to enter the country and remain here legally for two years. They do not receive green cards.

www.nytimes.com

What Trump should (but doesn't) understand about the Iran hacking story

If the allegations are accurate, Iran successfully breached the Trump campaign and obtained private information. Iran then offered stolen materials to Democrats; and Democrats ignored the outreach. Law enforcement agencies tracked the stolen information from the Trump campaign and determined that several people linked to Biden's campaign received emails containing the information. The recipients never responded to the emails and may not have even opened them because they appeared to be phishing attempts, the sources added."

The Republican nominee responded to the news in a decidedly Trumpian way.

"WOW, JUST OUT!" the former president wrote in a hysterical screed, published to his social media platform. "THE FBI CAUGHT IRAN SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GIVING ALL OF THE INFORMATION TO THE KAMALA HARRIS CAMPAIGN. THEREFORE SHE AND HER CAMPAIGN WERE ILLEGALLY SPYING ON ME. TO BE KNOWN AS THE IRAN, IRAN, IRAN CASE! WILL KAMALA RESIGN IN DISGRACE FROM POLITICS? WILL THE COMMUNIST LEFT PICK A NEW CANDIDATE TO REPLACE HER?"

In case this weren't quite enough, Trump published a follow-up item soon after, insisting that the vice president is "getting illegal campaign help from Iran."

The GOP nominee apparently sees all of this as some kind of parallel to his Russia scandal, but the comparison quickly falls apart: Team Trump welcomed, received, benefited from, and lied about Russian assistance. Team Harris didn't welcome, receive, benefit from, or lie about Iranian offers of assistance, so the idea that the two are similar is absurd.

Finally, let's not forget that Trump is on record publicly endorsing foreign intervention in American political campaigns. In fact, in June 2019, the then-president spoke to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, who asked an important hypothetical: If foreigners offered Trump campaign officials information ahead of the 2020 election, should they accept the dirt or should they call the FBI?

"I think maybe you do both," Trump replied. "I think you might want to listen, there's nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, Norway, We have information on your opponent,' oh I think I'd want to hear it."

Trumpy's law of transitive property is quite something, isn't it?

In a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's leadership conference, the Democratic presidential nominee provided a riveting warning about what could happen to the country if her rival, former President Donald Trump, wins the election in November.

She broke down, step-by-step, what traveling for abortion care really looks like. Harris noted that around 40% of Latinas in the U.S. live in states that have enacted abortion restrictions since the repeal of federal abortion protections.

"Understand that the majority of women who seek abortion care are mothers. Understand what that means for her," Harris said to the crowd in Washington, D.C. Around 55% of women who have an abortion have already had one or more births, research shows.

"So, she's got to now travel to another state - God help her that she has some extra money to pay for that plane ticket. She's got to figure out what to do with her kids - God help her if she has affordable child care," she continued. "Imagine what that means: She has to leave her home to go to an airport, stand in a TSA [airport security] line - like, think about this."

"On any public policy, you have to ask: How is this going to affect a real person?" she said. "Go through the details."

Harris emphasized how terrifying it is for women to travel to a city they've never visited and receive medical care from a doctor they've never met. "She's going to have to get right back to the airport because she [has] got to get back to those kids. And it's not like her best friend can go with her because her best friend is probably taking care of the kids," Harris said. "All because these people have decided they're in a better position to tell her what's in her best interest than she is. ... It's just simply wrong."

"One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government should not be telling her what to do," Harris said on Wednesday to a huge round of applause. "If she chooses, she will talk with her priest, her pastor, her rabbi, her imam, but not the government telling her what to do."

Being able to effectively tell a story from start to finish is a major asset for anyone seeking public office when talking to their constituency. Putting the listener into the shoes of the protagonist is an artform not all politicians are good at, much less to the point of crystallizing both the physical and emotional impacts they're being forced to deal with by outside entities controlling their own personal lives.

Kamala needs to keep repeating this chronology over and over again up until election day so that no woman is mistaken what the loss of Roe means to them, their daughters and granddaughters, along with every woman in this nation.

A George W Bush talking point?

A Funk and Wagnalls FACT!

Immigrant farmworkers make up an estimated 73% of agriculture workers in the United States. Farm labor is absolutely essential work that puts food on our tables across the country, powers the economy and supports our communities, from dairy farms in Wisconsin to strawberry fields in Florida and apple orchards in Washington. All together, food and agriculture sector is a $1.053 trillion industry.

Undocumented farm workers make up approximately 50% of the farm labor workforce. Without their hard work, millions of pounds of food would otherwise go unharvested. While these workers pay taxes and contribute to the economy, they are not protected by U.S. labor laws, and they live every day under the threat of arrest and family separation " all while working in extremely difficult conditions.

Despite lacking a legal immigration status, these workers and their families have lived in the United States for a long time. In general, the majority of undocumented immigrants have lived in the U.S. for more than ten years.

www.fwd.us

You really don't know these facts before you enter into discussions? Do you know how much GDP we lose if all undocumenteds were deported?
Removing undocumented residents from mixed-status households would reduce median household income from $41,300 to $22,000, a drop of $19,300, or 47 percent, which would plunge millions of US families into poverty.

If just one-third of the US-born children of undocumented residents remained in the United States following a mass deportation program, which is a very low estimate, the cost of raising those children through their minority would total $118 billion.

The nation's housing market would be jeopardized because a high percentage of the 1.2 million mortgages held by households with undocumented immigrants would be in peril.

Gross domestic product (GDP) would be reduced by 1.4 percent in the first year, and cumulative GDP would be reduced by $4.7 trillion over 10 years.

cmsny.org

In any way, shape, or form does any of this look like a good idea for our economic well-being? Undocumenteds are in every sector of our economy and if they were removed, we'd undermine our own well-being. Suicide is not good policy, ever,

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