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U.S. Stock Futures Rise After Promising Vaccine Study “U.S. stock futures rose as investors cheered promising results from the study of an experimental coronavirus vaccine while reviewing earnings from Goldman Sachs after rival banks signal that the worst of the recession is yet to come.”
Why Arizona Wasn’t Ready for Its Coronavirus Surge “Local officials and public health experts say the state was lucky to avoid a large outbreak in the spring, but that instead of using the time to prepare for a future wave, political leaders assumed the situation was well in hand.”
U.S. Economy Bolstered by Consumer Appetite for Cars, Homes “Consumers have continued spending on big-ticket items such as vehicles and homes during the coronavirus pandemic, helping support the U.S. economy as it battles a surge in cases and renewed business shutdowns.”
Women’s Careers Could Take Long-Term Hit From Coronavirus Pandemic “Women were spending 15 hours more a week on domestic labor than men were, at 65 hours versus 50 hours, compared with a pre-Covid balance of 35 hours and 25 hours.”
WHAT I’M READING + WATCHING + LISTENING TO
🎧 LISTEN: This is the story of Freedom House Ambulance Service of Pittsburgh. They were the first paramedics and they changed the way we think about emergency medicine.
Over a dozen years, Reuters found at least 5,206 people who were directly affected by a judge’s misconduct. The victims ranged from individuals who were illegally jailed to those subjected to racist, sexist and other abusive comments or actions.
To help figure out the U.S. citizenship status of every adult living in the country, the Trump administration has been accumulating driver's license information from states including South Dakota.
THE COMMENT
“With Trump, electoral politics and core beliefs blur together. He touts his focus on running as himself and praises advisers who let Trump be Trump. But he’s also often explicitly pandering in his outreach to groups he thinks he needs in November. It’s hard to tell, then, where the line between what Trump believes and what Trump thinks people want to hear can be drawn on the question of the threat posed to white people by police or by activists. There’s little reason to think that his responses Tuesday, however, differ greatly from his core beliefs about the threat posed by black Americans to law enforcement and to wealthy property owners.” - Philip Bump
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