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2024 ELECTIONS
Election workers helping voters.

Election officials vs. election observers vs. election campaigners: What’s the difference?

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Election officials, observers, and campaigners have very specific jobs throughout the election process. Here’s what you need to know about each.
2024 ELECTIONS - Cardinal & Pine

Opinion: Next year, your closest abortion clinic could be abroad

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Last year, more than 171,000 Americans were forced to leave their homes and travel across state lines for an abortion. That’s nearly a fifth of all Americans who needed abortion care in 2023 — and more than twice as many people who had to do the same in 2019.   It’s yet another jarring statistic […]
Presidential race

Kamala Harris proposed a plan to help small business owners. Trump’s plan could send their costs through the roof.

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Vice President Kamala Harris intends to support small business owners and entrepreneurs by reducing their expenses and increasing their access to capital. Trump’s tariff proposal, however, could cause small businesses’ costs to rise.
Tariff

Your F-150 or Camry could cost tens of thousands of dollars more under Trump’s tariff plan

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Trump’s proposed tariff of between 100% and 2,000% on foreign-made cars entering the US would raise prices on both domestic and imported cars and “likely send thousands of US workers to the unemployment line,” according to Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
2024 ELECTIONS - Cardinal & Pine

Trump’s tariff plan would raise prices and ‘reduce the living standard of Americans,’ economists say

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Trump’s plan would effectively be a sales tax that disproportionately harms working-class families and could cause a trade war that hurts US companies, economists say.