(The Center Square) – Job cuts and unemployment rates are going up in Illinois, while workers’ wage growth is slowing. According to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, reports, 1,169 Illinois workers were laid off in July. It marked the third straight month the number of layoffs has increased. Economist and Everyday Economics podcast host Orphe […]
(The Center Square) – The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump left many in the political sphere pointing fingers and shifting blame. And, despite a universal call to turn down the heated rhetoric, sorting through misinformation and political vitriol has become no less simple in the weeks since, said Laura Grace, director of programs […]
Vice President Kamala Harris’s decision to pick the Minnesota governor as her running mate on Tuesday renewed criticisms from Republicans about Tim Walz’s record on crime after his state spawned nationwide riots, looting, and calls to defund the police in 2020. Minnesota saw an alarming crime wave beginning in 2018 that surged through 2021, dipped […]
The 2024 election was once thought to rest almost entirely on the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and while Vice President Kamala Harris‘s ascension has altered the dynamics, both parties still desperately want to win the Midwestern swing states. Harris and her new running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), will sweep into […]
PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania Democrats’ love of Gov. Josh Shapiro is not getting in the way of supporting Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate pick. At a rally introducing the new ticket in Philadelphia on Tuesday, attendees sounded receptive to Walz, the Minnesota governor who competed with Shapiro to be Harris’s vice president. Several […]
Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff cut checks to a progressive legal group that pushed to defund the police and make Washington, D.C., a permanent “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants, documents show. Legal Aid DC, a nonprofit organization in the district that works on housing law and represents low-income clients in other […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An earthquake northwest of Los Angeles shook a large swath of Southern California on Tuesday night, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.2 magnitude temblor stuck at 9:09 p.m. and was centered near Mettler, an unincorporated area in Kern County about 85 miles […]
For more than a decade, former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill held a crucial seat for Democrats in a state otherwise dominated by Republicans. But in his first reelection since unseating two-term McCaskill in 2018, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has turned the once-competitive Show-Me State seat into a GOP sanctuary that’s out of reach for Democrats […]
President Joe Biden isn’t on the November ballot but his administration has been working overtime to “Trump-proof” science before his exit, putting protections in place to shield government scientists from political interference should former President Donald Trump win another White House term. “The Trump administration regularly suppressed, downplayed, or simply ignored scientific research demonstrating the need for […]
The general election this cycle to replace retiring Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) will feature Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D-WA) and former Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA). The two were the highest vote-getters in Tuesday’s open primary featuring dozens of candidates, which means they’ll faceoff one-on-one in November in a state that’s a Democratic stronghold and has […]
