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Democrats Set For Suburban Gains In Battleground States : NPR

Andy | July 31, 2020

Report: Democrats Set For Suburban Gains In Battleground States : NPR

A new report from the centrist Democratic group Third Way, and shared first with NPR, finds that Democrats are on track to win the suburbs in five of six key states they lost in the 2016 presidential election.

U.S. economy shrank at record-breaking 33% last quarter, as 1.4M sought unemployment aid last week / Boing Boing

Andy | July 31, 2020

U.S. economy shrank at record-breaking 33% last quarter, as 1.4M sought unemployment aid last week / Boing Boing

The government said Thursday the U.S. economy shrank at a shocking 33% annual rate in the April-June quarter. This is by far America's worst quarterly plunge ever, caused by the government's reckless response to the viral outbreak, which threw tens of millions out of work and sent unemployment surging to 14.7%.