https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5118393/undecided-voters-kamala-harris-donald-trump
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-09-18/economic-policy-justice/study-increasing-minimum-wage-does-not-reduce-jobs/a92455-1
A new report shows minimum wage increases have had little effect on the number of jobs in Maryland and nationwide. While the rhetoric around increasing the minimum wage often comes with the caution it will reduce low-wage employment, a new review of decades of research showed most studies found no job losses after the state or local minimum wage is raised. Ben Zipperer, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute and the review's co-author, said raising the minimum wage has unquestionably benefited workers. ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-ceasefire-yahya-sinwar-safe-passage-gaza-hostages/
Israel's hostage coordinator tells CBS News that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could leave Gaza with his family if the hostages are released.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/16/iran-2-years-womans-death-no-change
Iranian authorities’ brutal repression against women has only continued in the two years since the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Jina Amini sparked nationwide protests.
https://www.epi.org/blog/latest-data-show-that-recent-immigrant-population-growth-is-not-unprecedented-and-below-historical-peaks-new-immigrants-help-grow-the-economy/
Although recent headlines claim that immigration is historically high or even “unprecedented,” new U.S. Census Bureau data show that immigration flows were relatively high but not unprecedented between 2022 and 2023, and were below the historical peaks in the late 1990s. These flows of new immigrants will benefit both immigrants and U.S.-born workers, as shown…
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-chief-tells-houthis-their-attack-sends-message-israel-2024-09-16/
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/09/16/canada-Iranian-officials-denied-entry/2081726464028/
Canada is expanding its entry ban on Iranian officials over the Middle Eastern country's involvement in terrorism and human rights violations.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-debate-accomplished-more-for-harris-than-it-did-for-trump/
Brookings Senior Fellows William Galston and Elaine Kamarck react to the first and potentially only Harris-Trump debate.
https://apnews.com/article/income-inflation-prices-pay-economy-poverty-4407a4a4b631f990f91cb0a0990eb710
The inflation-adjusted median income of U.S. households rebounded last year to roughly its 2019 level, overcoming the biggest price spike in four decades to restore most Americans’ purchasing power.
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