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9·13 hours agoThat was my addition, to clarify
Encouraging news about that from the article
The biggest registration gains have been in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County and along the I-35 corridor, which now leans blue
I encourage you to take some of the election anxiety and turn it into productive action. That could look like canvasing (door knocking) to phone banking, text banking, letter writing and more. Those all have been shown to increase voter turnout. If nothing else, it at least reduce some of the anxiety
- Here’s a site that shows volunteer opportunities around you both in person and online
- You can find canvasing, phone banking, text banking, etc. there
- Help write letters to swing states or competitive down ballot races
- Progressive turnout PAC’s postcard to voters
- Here’s a site that shows volunteer opportunities around you both in person and online
A ~1.2 million increase in turnout could be significant enough to change the president and or senate race
Keep in mind trump only won texas by ~600 thousand votes in 2020
And Cruz won by only ~200 thousand votes in 2018
Love the energy, we can turn that kind of energy into a blue texas
Even runs at a pretty good framerate people-who-take-every-outlier-poll-as-gospel
We can do more than just hope, we can help make it happen
Find how to register to vote for where you are
Find opportunities to volunteer for dems around you and online
Write letters to voters in swing states or in competitive downballot races
Gonna repeat what I said in a different comment:
Encourage people to try to vote early everywhere. Texas has early in person voting from Oct 21 – Nov 1
If you vote early, you’ll have time to come back again in case there’s some last minute changes to the polling places open or some other problem. Plus you also don’t then have to worry about something like being sick on election day
The voter registration numbers are exceeding the population changes in Texas
Encourage people to try to vote early everywhere. Texas has early in person voting from Oct 21 – Nov 1
If you vote early, you’ll have time to come back again in case there’s some last minute changes to the polling places open or some other problem. Plus you also don’t then have to worry about something like being sick on election day
I would change the link now, but for some reason every time I try to link to the Washington post, it fails to post properly on lemmy. It’s extremely consistent and seems to be limited to juet the Washington post. Unsure why it happens
I assume you are talking about revisions to previous reports. Last week they actually had a revision showing the numbers last month were underestimates
From the article
The report followed on the heels of annual benchmark revisions to national accounts data last week that showed the economy is in much better shape than previously estimated, with upgrades to growth, income, savings and corporate profits.
The federal trade commission has started monopoly lawsuits after a number of big companies. Plus going after other anti-competitive practices. Here’s just a handful of the latest FTC’s actions:
- Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case
- Remedy sentencing in the near future
- FTC v. Amazon
- Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
- FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
- Ongoing court battles about it
- Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case
Luckily the actual report has all that info
Underemployment stats look a bit better. The number of part-timer workers for economic reasons is slightly down. Was 4.7 million in August vs 4.5 million in September. By economic reasons the BLS defines that as
economic reason such as slack work or unfavorable business conditions, inability to find full-time work, or seasonal declines in demand.
Here’s the overview they gave of that
In September, employment continued to trend up in food services and drinking places, health care, government, social assistance, and construction
[…]
Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation and warehousing; information; financial activities; professional and business services; and other services.
The federal reserve’s interest rates are good chunk of what’s going to determine inflation. Trump wants to gut their independence and force them to cut interest rates to near zero. That will make inflation explode
Mwanwhile the current administration is finally actually going after big monopolies after decades of inaction. Will take more time to go through the courts but that can bring down prices in some industries too. Do you think trump will really continue that or stop the lawsuits the minute he gets power?
Other Trump plans are extremely inflationary as well. He plans to put massive tarrifs on a lot of goods. His plans to do deportations that include US citizens will also raise prices too
Strike just ended. They have a temporary deal that will extend the labor contract until January with a 62% pay increase over 6 year
Unclear about the automation part, though I know there was a previous offer to limit automation at least
It has been updated now
Can’t tell how often the site you link updates but it is there. It’s just not at 2nd on that listing. Given the “Talk Tuah” podcast being at #5 on that site, I’m going to assume it updates quite frequently
The 2nd largest was a ranking over the course of last year. See the Spotify 2023 podcast rankings linked in the Axios article
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-11-29/top-songs-artists-podcasts-albums-trends-2023/