Econoday Economic Report
Econoday
Consumer sentiment is falling back this month, down 2.1 points from May to a lower-than-expected 97.9. In a very important reading in this report and one that will raise the pitch of the rat...
Shinzo Abe’s Mission to Iran Ends in Flames
The Washington Post
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Iran on Wednesday for a two-day trip that was aimed at cooling tensions in the region. And then things blew up.
On Thursday, two t...
Inside the Charter School Empire Prosecutors Say Scammed California for $80M
Voice of San Diego
Sean McManus and Jason Schrock created an online charter school empire that covered more than half the state of California, according to prosecutors and investigators for an outsid...
Democratic Senators Release Resolution Against Israeli Annexation of West Bank
Haaretz
Democratic senators introduced a resolution on Thursday in support of a two-state solution and against Israeli annexation of any parts of the West Bank. The resolution doesn't mention Prime M...
Japanese Shipping Company Confirms Its Tanker Was Attacked in Gulf
Haaretz
The president of the Japanese shipping company Kokuka Sangyo Ltd said one of its tankers had been attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, its president told reporters at a news conference. The pu...
America Has Spent $5.9 Trillion on Wars in the Middle East and Asia Since 2001, a New Study Says
CNBC
WASHINGTON — The U.S. wars and military action in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan have cost American taxpayers $5.9 trillion since they began in 2001, according to a new study.
That tot...
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
The Atlantic
A lot of factors have contributed to American inequality: slavery, economic policy, technological change, the power of lobbying, globalization, and so on. In their wake, what’s left?
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Social Security Is Staring at Its First Real Shortfall in Decades
The New York Times
A slow-moving crisis is approaching for Social Security, threatening to undermine a central pillar in the retirement of tens of millions of Americans.
Next year, for the first t...
An Activist Faced 20 Years in Prison for Helping Migrants. But Jurors Wouldn’t Convict Him.
The Washington Post
When Scott Daniel Warren was arrested last year after allegedly providing food, water, beds and clean clothes to undocumented immigrants near Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, the questio...
California Is On Its Way To Having An Avocado Crop Year-Round
NPR
Not my avocados!
President Trump's tough talk on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada has raised many questions — including how such a move might negati...
