Plus: Biden Pops Champagne Corks Over Jobs Report While Forgetting to Mention 1 Fact
July 11 2022
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden puts lipstick on the pig that is the nation’s latest jobs report. That’s Carrie Sheffield’s view, and she explains why. Women’s March activists turn their ire on Supreme Court justices who decided abortion isn’t a constitutional right. Doug Blair reports. On the podcast, a Texas sheriff tells Rob Bluey about the “invasion” at the southern border. Plus: China no longer is a sure investment; the governor flouts California’s travel bans; and your letters on the overruling of Roe v. Wade. On this date in 1905, W.E.B. Du Bois and 28 other black scholars, lawyers, and businessmen gather on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls to create a civil rights organization known as the Niagara Movement.
President Biden touts Friday’s jobs report as “significant progress” in economic recovery, but ignores the uneven unemployment rate showing conservative states lead in job growth.
Due to China’s increasingly difficult regulatory environment, UBS, the world’s largest private investment bank, dropped China’s GDP growth rate estimate this year from 5.5% to 3%.
Montana is one of 22 states subject to California’s ban on official travel based on those states’ so-called discriminatory laws against LGBTQ individuals.
Historically, as Westernized cultures become more affluent, whether it’s ancient Rome or modern America, they birth fewer children—even as their appetites for more household and personal help spike.
