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Trump and Related
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
It would replace the law with a plan that does more to benefit the young, healthy, and rich — and disadvantages the sick, old, and poor. Price’s plan provides significantly less help to those with preexisting conditions than other Republican proposals…
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
[The Chinese-based Huajian Group] has made about 100,000 pairs of Ivanka Trump-branded shoes over the years, according to spokesman Liu Shiyuan.
In August it filled an order for 20,000 — just weeks after Trump accepted the Republican nomination, with a speech vowing to bring jobs back to the US…
Huajian’s shoes are a fraction of the more than 1,200 shipments of Trump-branded products that have flowed into the US from China and Hong Kong over the last decade, according to an examination of US import data by anti-Trump political action committee Our Principles PAC.…
Now, for the price of one Chinese worker, Huajian can hire five Ethiopians, Zhang told AFP.
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
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Climate
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
In the worst-affected area, 67% of a 700km swath in the north of the reef lost its shallow-water corals over the past eight to nine months… According to government agencies, 22% of the reef was killed in one hit, as unusually warm waters bleached and killed the coral.
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
The fire has killed at least three people and injured at least 14 others, officials said Tuesday. The victims have not yet been identified.
The fire also forced employees at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies to evacuate, leaving behind more than 10,500 animals,
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
Through October, Tennessee is also having its third-warmest year on record. That’s ensured the entire state is mired in drought with the epicenter in the southeast part of the state that’s currently ablaze.
Whether climate change will make fires more common in the region is an ongoing area of research. It’s unclear if the Southeast will become wetter or drier due to climate change and that will have a big influence on future wildfire activity.
The region is likely to keep warming, though, and that means that any future dry spells will be more likely to lead to drought, creating more fuel for fires to burn.
On (the) Media
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
Newsroom employment at the nation’s 1,375 dailies could fall below 28,000, less than half of its high point in 1990. Further, current federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data projects continuing slides as long as the forecasting eye can see. Through 2024, newspaper reporter positions are projected to decline by 28% and editor jobs by 34%, from their 2014 level…
[N]umbers — ranging from 11% for Tronc to 15% for Gannett to 18% for The New York Times — signal the accelerating decline of the newspaper-based business…
Other
Bernie Sanders’ first in-depth interview since the election:
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
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