New Department of Labor Numbers Show Farmers Are Increasingly Turning to this Controversial Visa Program
Bill Wagner/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For years, California’s avocado farms have been scrambling to find enough people to pick their fruit. As a result, growers there and in several other states are increasingly turning to a controversial visa program, the H-2A, to import workers. New numbers released by the…
Democrats and Latinos: A Followup
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday I defended Democrats against the charge that they hadn’t done enough to deserve a big Latino turnout on Election Day. I got a couple of annoyed replies to that, which I want to share since they contain widely accepted misinformation. Here are the relevant…
If This Texas District Goes Blue on Tuesday, Look Out
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The first time Beto O’Rourke came to Fort Bend County, Texas, in April 2017, Cynthia Ginyard, the county Democratic chairwoman, saw people she hadn’t run into in years. Organizers were expecting 125 people; twice that many crammed into a British pub…
Chart of the Day #2: Net New Jobs in October
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American economy gained 250,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at a respectable 160,000 jobs. The unemployment rate stayed steady at 3.7 percent. Wages of production and…
Chart of the Day: YTD Border Apprehensions
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He Was the “Hot Guy Running for Congress.” Now, Ammar Campa-Najjar is a Contender.
John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune/ZUMA (2) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In any other election year, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a young Palestinian Mexican American running to unseat a five-term Republican congressman in one of California’s most fiercely red districts, wouldn’t stand a chance. But these are strange times in the 50th…