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32,000 Jobs Gone. Most Lost by American Workers. Minnesota's ICE Surge Tells the Real Story

A new report links nearly 4,000 ICE arrests to 32,000 lost jobs in Minnesota — with 25,000 of those losses falling on U.S.-born workers.

Latin Times · Oct 12

Michigan farmers created wind leases paying landowners without turbines $1,000 an acre

Michigan farmers found a way to make wind development pay beyond the properties where turbines were actually placed. In Isabella County, farmers worked together to create a lease that shared part of the revenue across participating landowners, meaning a farmer could receive a payment even without hosting a turbine. The…

The Times of India · Oct 3

The American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden

John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found

The Guardian - US · Oct 3

‘What happens if we do die?’: Congress still stalled on continuity plan after 9/11

Brian Baird has spent a lot of time thinking about death over the last 25 years.  Not just his own, but also his former House colleagues’.  Making his way through the Longworth House Office Building on 9/11 and urging people to evacuate after seeing smoke rising from the Pentagon out…

Roll Call · Sep 9

How Much Is ICE Costing the U.S. Economy? LA Put a Dollar Figure on Immigration Enforcement Raids

LA County spent months quantifying ICE enforcement's economic toll. Houston and Chicago haven't — but the scattered data tells its own story.

Latin Times · Aug 9

How Second Chance Month Went From Proclamation to Policy

Second Chance Month began as an April designation. Here's what it has actually produced in law, hiring policy, and record clearing across the U.S.

inkl · Aug 6

Elon Musk's $40 Trillion AI Debt 'Cure' Faces Reality Check In Brutal Brookings Report

Elon Musk insists AI will rescue the US from its £31tn debt burden, but experts at the Brookings Institution warn that technology alone cannot bridge the fiscal gap.

International Business Times UK · Jul 3

AI could wipe $2.2 trillion off the national debt, but there's a catch

A new Brookings/Fed paper finds AI productivity could meaningfully shrink the U.S. deficit — until you count the side effects, which could erase more than half the savings before Washington even cashes the check.

Fortune · Jul 2

Elon Musk says AI is the only way to solve the U.S. debt crisis—but the tech will be so successful that Treasury ends up paying, finds new study

AI has the potential to be so transformative that it “should give optimists pause,” the study notes.

Fortune · Jul 2

A Brookings paper just accidentally explained Zohran Mamdani

The headline finding was almost an afterthought: 62 of the 100 most AI-exposed counties in the United States voted Democratic in 2024.

Fortune · Jun 26