So JD Vance claims that immigrants have caused the housing crisis. So much wrong with this, but one glaring problem is timing. The surge in rents (as measured by the BLS’s new tenant index) preceded the surge in immigration (as estimated by CBO)
Mass deportation is an economic and human rights suicide pact that will result in mass family separation, soaring deficits, a spike in inflation, and job losses across the American economy. Just say no to dumb nativist policies and ethnic cleansing.
NEW FROM THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion. "Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually. It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...
What 5 megabytes of computer data looked like in 1966: 62,500 punched cards, taking four days to load.
We’ve all become desensitized, but it’s amazing how at this point the Trump campaign rests entirely on denouncing things that aren’t happening — a imaginary bad economy, imaginary runaway crime and now an imaginary failure of Biden and Harris to respond to natural disaster
people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
How in fresh hell is the headline for an article about a guy pretending to have a wife and THREE daughters "G.O.P. Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their Wives"?!?!?!
You can read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-b...