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11-10-2024 5:16 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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Vice President Kamala Harris, who co-sponsored H.R. 40 as a senator—a bill to establish a commission to study reparations—emphasized the importance of acknowledging the long-term effects of slavery, redlining, and Jim Crow laws.
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Unite Here Local 2 leader María Mata (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)
Often when people think about unions, "they think of a white guy in a hard hat. But in fact, studies show that about two-thirds of working people who are covered by a union contract are women and/or people of color,” said Georgetown University labor historian Lane Windham.
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President Joe Biden (Photo: NNPA)
Among the falsehoods spreading online is the claim that disaster relief funds are being used to support undocumented immigrants. The administration was quick to debunk this. “No money is being diverted from disaster response needs. None,” clarified a White House official.
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Idaho Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, waits for the State of the State address inside the house chambers at the state Capitol building, on Jan. 9, 2017 in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger, File)
Republican Sen. Dan Foreman left the event early after the outburst and later denied making any racist comments in a Facebook post.
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Americans continue to struggle under high rents, while up to 223,0000 affordable housing units could disappear across the U.S. in the next five years alone. Units built with the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, which gave developers tax credits in exchange for keeping rents low, typically only need to be kept affordable for a minimum of 30 years. The wave of construction in the 1990s means those deadlines are arriving now, threatening to eliminate affordable housing when Americans need it most. Local governments and nonprofits who own the buildings can keep them affordable. But some renters will face huge rent increases, even eviction
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Harris is often asked questions about her Black identity. She has responded by saying how it relates to her sense of self. “I’m really clear about who I am, and if anybody else is not, they need to go through their own therapy.”
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(Photo: United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) and Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota. (Photo: ffice of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan)
Ultimately, Walz positioned himself as a champion of middle-class families, touting healthcare and affordable housing policies. At the same time, Vance remained firmly aligned with Trump, repeatedly defending the former president’s record and platform.
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Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the ACLU is calling the “new stop-and-frisk.”
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An attorney for the last two known survivors of the massacre called the announcement a “joyous occasion.”
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The Democrat approved the measure on California Native American Day. It comes after Newsom issued a formal apology in 2019 for the state’s violence against and mistreatment of Native Americans.
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