The Raising Voices environmental committee wishes you a Happy New Year with a challenge: Make a resolution to protect our planet. Resolve to reduce your plastic consumption by 25%. Suggestions to help you succeed: Buy reusable, washable fruit and vegetable bags. Amazon sells them for a very reasonable amount. Get …
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FROM THE WASHINGTON POST
Rising prices have erased U.S. workers’ meager wage gains, the latest sign strong economic growth has not translated into greater prosperity for the middle and working classes.
Cost of living was up 2.9 percent from July 2017 to July 2018, the Labor Department reported Friday, an inflation rate that outstripped a 2.7 percent increase in wages over the same period. The average U.S. “real wage,” a federal measure of pay that takes inflation into account, fell to $10.76 an hour last month, 2 cents down from where it was a year ago.
FROM BBC NEWS
US President Donald Trump has shaken the foundations of global trade, slapping steep tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of goods from the EU, Canada, Mexico and China.
All these countries are responding in kind, retaliating with levies on thousands of US products.
This puts the world’s largest economies at each other’s throats.
But what is a trade war? How does protectionism work? And how will it all affect you?
The president and top administration officials say U.S. laws or court rulings are forcing them to separate families that are caught trying to cross the southern border.
These claims are false. Immigrant families are being separated primarily because the Trump administration in April began to prosecute as many border-crossing offenses as possible. This “zero-tolerance policy” applies to all adults, regardless of whether they cross alone or with their children.
Administration officials have pointed to “the law” as the reason why undocumented children are being separated from their parents. But there’s no such law. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
