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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Republicans have long objected to the ACA, and Trump tried several times to have it overturned; he’s claimed he’ll replace it with something better, but in eight years, he’s never come up with even a rudiment of a proposal. And here’s Speaker Johnson at a campaign stop yesterday: “No Obamacare?” an attendee asked Johnson, referring […] The post Healthcare and the 2024 presidential election appeared first on Angry...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]by Explainer Migration Policy Institute Immigrants in the United States commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S.-born population, not-with-standing the assertion by critics that immigration is linked to higher rates of criminal activity. This reality of reduced criminality, which holds across immigrant groups including unauthorized immigrants, has been demonstrated through research as well as […] The post Immigrants and Crime in the United States...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] – by New Deal democrat The JOLTS survey parses the jobs market on a monthly basis more thoroughly than the headline employment numbers in the jobs report. For several years, my mantra for a lot of statistics has been “deceleration.” Well, in the case of the employment market, we have passed the point where deceleration […] The post JOLTS report for September shows continued deceleration in almost all metrics, now close to a...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The last 4 years of Border Encounters appears to be more than what the Trump Administration experienced. Is this a bad thing? Why did it occur? Has there been more crime? Encounter data includes U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Title 8 Apprehensions, Office of Field Operations (OFO) Title 8 Inadmissible, and Title 42 Expulsion. Demographics for […] The post Title 8 Apprehensions, Office of Field Operations (OFO) Title 8 Inadmissible, and Title 42...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]– by New Deal democrat This morning’s repeat house price indexes from the FHFA and Case Shiller continued to show deceleration in this metric which is very important to home buyers. Specifically, on a seasonally adjusted basis, in the three month average through August, U.S. house prices according to both indexes rose 0.3%. This is a slight […] The post Repeat home sales accelerate slightly monthly, but continue to show YoY...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]My wife and I are recently retired. We moved to New England to be close to our grandson and his parents. We’re living independently in a three-bedroom detached house. My parents were able to live independently into their early 80s, when my dad began to dement. My mom was much smaller than him, and wasn’t […] The post The business of aging appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]There is considerable doubt about Richard Glossip’s guilt for a brutal 1997 murder in Oklahoma City, for which he has twice been sentenced to death. It also appears unquestionable that he has never gotten a fair trial.  Glossip’s case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, where his fate may actually be determined by the incoherence of the court’s recusal […] The post And It Makes No Difference Whether...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A bit of a rewrite of an article. The Social Security scandal Trump doesn’t want you to know about by James Downie MSNBC Something else Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know about and how it will impact you. This type of plan always comes out later and then everyone says; “well if I had […] The post Trump’s Proposals Could Bankrupt a Vital and Popular Program Within Six Years appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The issue here? A Woman’s right to decide for herself what care she needs without threats of legal action or hindrance to healthcare. As can be seen in the first map, Illinois is centrally located amongst many states which ban or time-limit getting an abortion. Hence many patients go to Illinois as it is closer […] The post A Woman’s Right to Decide . . . appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]by Bill McBride Calculated Risk News Letter Economist Adam Ozimek and John Lettieri (CEO, Economic Innovation Group) have a new proposal to address the housing crisis in the United States:  How the next president can solve America’s housing crisis U.S. housing costs are out of control. The median home for sale was rarely more than four times […] The post A Proposal to Address the Housing Crisis appeared first on Angry Bear.