Pay no attention to that foreign-born worker “You can’t grow like this with just the native workforce. It’s not possible,” says Pia Orrenius, vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The Washington Post’s online front page this morning blares that immigration is fueling the “roaring” U.S. economy. And you thought there was a border crisis, a crisis hyped by Republicans who believe it can wait for the November election. “About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data,” The Post reports. By the middle of 2022, rapid growth in the foreign-born labor force “closed the labor force gap created by the pandemic“: Immigrant workers also recovered much faster than native-born workers from the pandemic’s disruptions, and many saw some of the largest wage gains in industries eager to hire.
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A new study by Alan MacLeod uncovers media bias, revealing how the deaths of American journalist Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny were disproportionately covered, exposing the influence of political filters and narrative priorities.
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On a late Sunday evening, a severed pig’s head and a brick were thrown through the window of a Muslim family’s home in Blackburn. The family, who’d lived there for 50 years, were left ‘extremely distressed’ by the incident. The incident is eerily reminiscent of the daily lived reality of Black and Asian people many […]
So Noah Smith has a quite negative review of Acemoglu and Johnson’s recent book, Power and Progress, a book that I myself liked very much. Before letting rip, Noah says nice things about Acemoglu and Johnson, and I’ll do the same here for him. There are a lot of people on the left who detest […]
Arran Rangi, who lives in Lee Anderson’s Ashfield constituency, explores his MP's effect on his home town – and the racism he thought was in the past
Ten years on from the Euromaidan uprising, Ukrainians are still fighting for freedom and to be part of the European Union
The family of a child suffering Long COVID claims they have faced 'medical gaslighting' and been consistently denied NHS care
GAHHH! … Sorry, what I meant to say is hello and welcome. You’ll have to excuse me; I’m not used to faces that are quite so… dehydrated.
I see that the pockets of your denim pants are full of free samples, which means you’re probably going to ask if I take insurance. Might I suggest you see a student esthetician at the cosmetology school in the basement of Walgreens instead? Their clients hardly ever go blind.
No need? So, in order to pay me, you’ve taken out a loan the size of a down payment on a seaside mansion? C’est bon.
Now, let’s take a look at your face with the most horrifying magnification tool I have.
Furrow your brow. Unfurrow it. Smile. Frown. Jump up and down. Spin around. Sit. And don’t ever forget that you’re mine now. I own you.
All righty, I see acne and wrinkles. I guess it’s wrong what they say—women can have it all.
Regarding your eyes, if there were a crow with feet so enormous that all the other crows shunned it, causing this crow to die alone in its little crow apartment, those would be your crow’s feet.
Faisal Hanif argues that increasingly desperate politicians are stoking Islamophobia for their own ends
“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big stuff. Trust in media is already at an all-time low. Don’t alienate liberal arts majors and obsessive compulsives. We may […]
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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Seth Meyers, The Acolyte, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Shōgun, The Rookie, IWTV, Doctor Who & more!
Israeli peace activist Miko Peled explains the untenable predicament of Palestinian refugees fleeing Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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Lord Peter Mandelson famously once described himself as a ‘fighter not a quitter’ before being obliged to quit over something or other. Ronnie Campbell, who has sadly passed away at the age of 80, really was a fighter, not a quitter, in his long union and political life and in his personal life. He famously […]
Work from home appears to have improved labor outcomes for workers with a disability in terms of unemployment, labor force participation, and wages and hours worked.
Burned by legal decisions, Elon Musk is relocating his rocket company to Texas — where he’ll enjoy a new, separate justice system controlled by his ally, Gov. Greg Abbott.
So, French leader Macron thinks Europe should send troops to Ukraine to fight Russia. (This is colloquially known as “declaring war on Russia.”)
rench President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that sending Western troops to Ukraine should not be ruled out, as European leaders concluded a summit on supporting Kyiv.
“There is no consensus today to send ground troops officially but … nothing is ruled out,” Macron said at a press conference in Paris, where the meeting had just wrapped up. “We will do whatever it takes to ensure that Russia cannot win this war.”
“The defeat of Russia is indispensable to the security and stability of Europe,” the French president added.
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A conversation with artist Jorge Colombo.
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My latest in Inside Story, reposted from Substack Managers need to recognise that the best way to dissipate authority is to fail in its exercise Authority is powerful yet intangible. The capacity to give an order and expect it to be obeyed may rest ultimately on a threat to sanction those who disobey but it […]
If you liked East Germany ca. 1958, you’re going to love Texas in 2024 Spying on your neighbors, creating a paranoid society, was a prime method of control in the Soviet era. We used to think that was a bad idea: Texas Gov.
