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Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services In an interview with Face the Nation this past weekend, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson repeated the false claim that the 2020 election was unconstitutional. Johnson’s statement, part of an ongoing campaign of election denialism by Republican lawmakers to cast doubt on the legitimacy...
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A new report showed the share of tech jobs in what are known as “superstar” cities such as the Bay Area, Boston, Los Angeles and New York has dipped in recent years, while it has been growing in other cities including Salt Lake City. According to a recent study from the University of...
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Deborah Van Fleet Public News Service An Omaha Maya organization has received one of five $15,000 grants from the nonprofit GreenLatinos. Some 85 organizations applied for the grant from the Justicia y Equidad Fund for “under-resourced Latino environmental justice organizations.” Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim (CMPI) is an Omaha-based nonprofit supporting Maya and other...
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La Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos está considerando un nuevo proyecto de ley que modernizaría la Línea Federal de Pobreza, que no se ha actualizado sustancialmente desde la década de 1960. Muchos programas de ayuda como CalFresh, Head Star y Medi-Cal están vinculados a la LFP y aumentar...
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The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a new bill that would modernize the Federal Poverty Line, which hasn’t been substantially updated since the 1960s. Many aid programs such as CalFresh, Head Start and Medi-Cal are pegged to the FPL – and raising the maximum people can make would help...
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A new biannual survey shows some perceptions of the economy are improving. The Center for Audit Quality’s fall 2022 Audit Partner Pulse Survey found almost 60% of audit partners expressed pessimism for the U.S. economy. However, the group’s more recent fall 2023 survey showed overall pessimism dropped to 27%. Julie Bell Lindsay, CEO...
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Across the globe, hunger is an enormous threat to children. To combat the problem, one rural school district in northwest New Mexico is bringing culturally-appropriate items to the school cafeteria menu. Zach Ben, founder of the Navajo Nation’s Bidii Baby Foods, was a new dad during the pandemic when baby...
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Pascal “Shakoure” Charpentier nació en una base militar en Alemania y ha llamado a la ciudad de Nueva York su hogar durante tres décadas, pero es posible que no pueda hacerlo por mucho más tiempo. El Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas está tratando de deportarlo por ser...
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Pascal “Shakoure” Charpentier was born on an army base in Germany and has called New York City home for three decades, but he might not be able to much longer. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is trying to deport him for being a Haitian immigrant, despite having never been to Haiti. Federal...