By Charles Laverty on Aug 24, 2019 01:00 pm
 Los Angeles voters approved a $1.2B bond initiative to address the housing crisis and give apartments to the homeless. As costs have skyrocketed the number of units being built has dropped so that units are not costing almost $700,000 each, more than the median home price in the County. The Mayor's office is on the defensive as calls mount for an investigation.
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By Rami Almeghari on Aug 24, 2019 11:00 am
 Thursday’s fighting in Yemen constituted the latest spate of violence between Saudi Arabia-backed government-loyal troops and the militias linked with the Southern Transitional Council. Saudi Arabian-backed Yemeni forces belonging to the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbur Hadi have reportedly taken control of Ataq, a strategically significant city in Southern Yemen after a series of […]
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By Lauren von Bernuth on Aug 24, 2019 09:00 am
 “CoreCivic’s profit model is built around understaffing and constant lockdowns of poorly run, exceedingly dangerous prisons.” A July report from the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) and No Exceptions Prison Collective found that CoreCivic, a private for-profit prison operator, reported twice as many homicides at its four Tennessee prisons than the Tennessee Department of Corrections […]
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By Guest Post on Aug 24, 2019 07:00 am
 An average of 1,688 corruption cases were registered for every 1,000 active-duty police officers in Mexico in 2017. (By Juan Camilo Jaramillo, InSight Crime) The arrest of a town’s entire police department in Mexico’s state of Chihuahua reflects just how insidious police corruption continues to be in the country, with governments at all levels seemingly […]
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By Guest Post on Aug 24, 2019 05:00 am
 The Trump administration has requested to amend a settlement that would allow them to indefinitely detain migrant children, but activist organizations have vowed to fight it. (By Kevin Johnson, The Conversation) The Trump administration is trying to terminate the Flores settlement, a legal agreement that determines how immigrant children are treated in U.S. immigration detention. […]
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By Peter Castagno on Aug 23, 2019 03:43 pm
 “Publication and dissemination of a white supremacist, anti-semitic website throughout the EOIR is antithetical to the goals and ideals of the Department of Justice.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) sent an email to all immigration court employees that included an article from a white nationalist outlet this week, BuzzFeed News reported on Thursday. The Southern […]
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By Peter Castagno on Aug 23, 2019 09:44 am
 “He deployed his stupendous fortune funding climate denial in the years when the science was clear and there was still time to avert catastrophic warming. He died as fires raged from the Amazon to the Arctic.” David Koch, billionaire industrialist and powerful right-wing political activist, died early on Friday. David and his brother Charles are […]
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By Guest Post on Aug 23, 2019 09:00 am
 Dark money groups have spent more than $1 billion on independent expenditures since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision. (By Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) A new “dark money” group funded by secret donors plans to spend almost all of its $10.4 million budget on ads helping Democrats in House […]
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By Peter Castagno on Aug 23, 2019 07:00 am
 “Without unions, there will be no institution in American politics advocating for policies that benefit the vast majority of Americans who do not own capital.” Sen. Bernie Sanders released a new plan on Wednesday that would overhaul U.S. labor laws and seek to double labor union membership by the end of his first term in […]
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By Rami Almeghari on Aug 23, 2019 05:00 am
 Egypt’s economy is bouncing back from years of political turmoil and uncertainty with impressive economic growth rates. After India and Uganda, Egypt is ranked as the world’s third fastest-growing economy for the upcoming ten years, a new study by Harvard University revealed. According to the Global Growth Projections report, released last Thursday by the Center of […]
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By Guest Post on Aug 22, 2019 01:00 pm
 There seems to be something of a cumulative effect gradually moving people toward realizing the need for policy intervention. (By Kent E. Portney and Carol L. Goldsmith, The Conversation) In the aftermath of the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, public debate once again turned to what Congress should do to reduce gun […]
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