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Employers Are Baffled as U.S. Benefits End and Jobs Go Begging (Bloomberg)
Emergency unemployment benefits in the U.S. expired two weeks ago, but employers who expected an increase in job applications are still largely waiting for them to roll in.

but I keep being repeatedly assured, on a somewhat regular basis by Republicans, that stopping the unemployment benefits is what needs to happen to get people back to work!

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In Central York, kids rose up to save books on MLK, Rosa Parks from their parents by Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Parents yelling about masks or demanding book bans over 'critical race theory' isn't really about their kids, who have different ideas.

I’m glad these high school students won. But they should never have had to fight this battle in the first place, especially with the same people who have been who have been preaching against the evils of safe spaces for the past 30 years but who have suddenly decided that well actually they need a safe space of their own within the last 9 months.