Here are some excerpts from the August edition of the Harper’s Index:
Percentage change since last year in the arrests of U.S. immigrants with criminal convictions: +18
Of immigrants without criminal convictions: +156
Percentage of white working-class Americans who believe that college is a good investment: 44
Projected percentage of U.S. jobs in 2020 that will require education beyond high school: 65
Rank of “smart” among words that occur to U.S. voters when they think of Donald Trump: 28
Of “idiot”: 1
Number of countries worldwide with maternal death rates lower than that of the United States: 76
Chance that an American’s tap water does not meet national safety standards: 1 in 4
Portion of U.S. workers who believe that having to email outside work hours is reasonable: 9/10
Percentage of U.S. adults who plan on working past retirement age: 74
Year in which every Chinese coal plant is projected to be more efficient than every U.S. coal plant: 2020
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“There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper.”
~Norman Thomas, What Is Our Destiny (1944)
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2011—MA-Sen: Elizabeth Warren considering Senate run:
Elizabeth Warren is considering a run for the U.S. Senate:
Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor whose consumer protection work has made her a favorite among liberal activists, will spend early August assessing whether to try to unseat Senator Scott Brown, an adviser said.
Back when we started this campaign in February, a lot of people thought it was a shot in the dark. It's clearly not anymore.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Joan McCarter joins us in poking Zombie Treasoncare with a stick, to see how dead it is. Trump sneaks away for another sort-of secret Putin meeting, then concocts another excuse to have people over for a meal. Mitch McConnell’s no magician after all.
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