Not So Raw Data: Who’s Buying New Cars?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is from a Fed Note published in 2016: The column on the far right is the one to look at. It means that the likelihood of buying a car didn’t change much for different age groups once you control for family and income: In…
Kirsten Gillibrand Takes Aim at ICE After an Arrest at a New York Dairy Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things have gone sour for New York’s dairy industry, the third-largest of any US state. Years of low milk prices have led to steady stream of farm closings and farmer suicides. The industry’s workforce, which includes large numbers of immigrants, faces low wages, long hours, and high…
Raw Data: Who Lives In Our Biggest Cities?
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An Appeals Court Just Thwarted Trump’s Efforts to Punish Sanctuary Cities
An immigration protest outside the U.S. Capitol last month.Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to issue a national injunction against the Trump administration’s efforts to deny federal funding to sanctuary cities. The three-judge panel sided with…
Your Online Purchase Might Get Declined For No Reason Anyone Is Willing to Tell You
Sure, she looks happy now. But what if her purchase gets declined?Image Source/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Wall Street Journal tells us today about Riskified, a company that scores consumer behavior and then decides whether to approve or deny purchases. It’s used mostly for online purchases, by big…
Ted Cruz’s Blurb on Trump as One of Time’s Most 100 Influential People Is … Something
Michael Brochstein/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since Donald Trump and Ted Cruz first faced off in the Republican presidential primaries in 2016, the president has repeatedly and sometimes viciously attacked the Texas senator. He accused Cruz’s father of assisting in the assassination of JFK, cruelly mocked Cruz’s wife, and, as is the president’s habit, gave Cruz…