Category: United States
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Latino Legislators Urge Biden to Grant Work Permits to Long-Time Immigrants
For over a year, the Biden administration has been using a humanitarian parole program to grant work permits to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who recently arrived from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua. But immigrants who have been living in the country longer, many paying taxes, say it’s time for them to receive work authorization…
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Inflation Rises Less in April, Providing Slight Relief to American Consumers
The Consumer Price Index rose 3.4% in April compared to the previous year, down from 3.5% in March, the Labor Department reported on Wednesday (15). The “core” index – which excludes the volatile prices of food and fuel to give a sense of the underlying trend – rose 3.6% last month, down from 3.8% the…
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House Prices in the U.S. Have Increased 47% Since Early 2020
House prices have risen by 47.1% since the beginning of 2020. This data comes from a recent analysis of the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which showed that home prices grew by 30.1% and 44.7% during the decades of the 1990s and 2010s, respectively. There are several factors behind the current price increase. Years of…
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Eight Dead and Dozens Injured in Bus Accident Transporting Immigrant Workers in Florida
The Florida Highway Patrol reported that a bus carrying 53 people on State Road 40 between Ocala and Dunnellon, in Marion County, collided with a pickup truck at 6:30 AM local time for undetermined reasons, causing it to veer off the road and overturn. The police say the bus was transporting “immigrant workers” to a…
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Thanks to a New Type of Visa, It’s Easier to Live in Some Countries
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New visa programs and tax incentives are making it easier for many to arrange life and start anew abroad, with countries like Portugal, Spain, and Costa Rica leading the way.
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Debt – And Delinquency – Are Increasing Among Americans
The American economy has been resilient, the job market is healthy, and consumers continue to spend, but more and more Americans are becoming financially overwhelmed – especially with their credit cards. New data released Tuesday (14) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed that as household debt balances grew during the first quarter…
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Poll: Trump Leads Biden in 5 Key States
Donald J. Trump has not spent much time on the campaign trail across the country. Instead, he is sitting on a defendant’s bench, being tried for possible falsifications of his companies’ records. Even so, many voters seem unconcerned about the former president and current Republican candidate’s history. According to a new voting intention poll, he…
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Measure Limiting Late Credit Card Fees to $8 Temporarily Suspended
A federal judge in Texas suspended on Friday (10) the new rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that limits late credit card fees to $8, a victory for business and banking groups challenging the Biden administration’s crackdown on so-called “junk fees.” The U.S. District Judge, Mark Pittman, in Fort Worth, issued a temporary…
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The Best American States, According to New Ranking
Utah is number 1 in the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of the Best American States for the second consecutive year. Lanzado pela primeira vez em 2017, o projeto Best States classifica os estados com base no seu desempenho nas áreas de cuidados de saúde, educação, ambiente natural, oportunidades, economia, crime e penitenciárias, infraestruturas…
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Biden Says He Will Stop Sending Bombs to Israel If the Country Launches Action Against Rafah, Gaza
President Joe Biden said for the first time on Wednesday (8) that he would suspend some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a major invasion of the city of Rafah. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza…