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Christy Rosales owns a small clothing shop in a Latino market in East Las Vegas, Nev. She worries about the economy and that's why she plans to vote for Donald Trump in 2024.

Republicans see Latino voters in Nevada as key to retaking the White House in 2024

10:58am February 10, 2024

by Franco Ordoñez

Former President Donald Trump has pretty sharp rhetoric around immigration. At the same time, he is trying to reach a potentially powerful voting bloc in pivotal swing states: Latinos.

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Members of the New York Police Department and emergency vehicles crowd the streets near a subway station in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Tuesday.

National

Brooklyn subway attack rattles a multicultural, working-class community

1:50pm April 13, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Local officials and organizers are turning to social media to discuss the shooting's impact on the immigrant, working-class and vulnerable communities in the Sunset Park neighborhood.

Argenis Dominguez fueling up his SUV at a gas station in Boston. He drives Uber for a living and says the higher gas prices mean less money in his pocket.

Economy

Record gas prices hit working class Americans with inflation already surging

2:07pm March 10, 2022

by Chris Arnold

With each passing day the disruption of oil markets related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushes up gas prices in the U.S. to a new record.

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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Anne Case and Angus Deaton

'Deaths Of Despair' Examines The Steady Erosion Of U.S. Working-Class Life

2:40pm March 18, 2020

by Jim Zarroli

Princeton Profs. Anne Case and Angus Deaton make the case that something has gone grievously wrong, starting with the shift to declining life expectancy numbers around the year 2000.

Kanesha Adams stands in the parking lot outside of Jim Clyburn's World-Famous Fish Fry on June 21 in Columbia, S.C. The event featured appearances by 21 Democratic presidential candidates seeking voters in the early primary state.

Politics & Government

Black Women, Motivated To Oust Trump, Aren't Convinced Of Any Democrat Yet

9:42am June 26, 2019

by Susan Davis

While former Vice President Joe Biden has a commanding lead in early polling for the Democratic nomination, black women interviewed by NPR all say they are still weighing their options.

Clarisa Corber at work at a Topeka, Kan., insurance agency. Corber and her husband — who have three kids, a health plan and $15,000 in medical debt — were profiled in a recent Los Angeles Times investigation into the effects of high-deductible health

Employees Start To Feel The Squeeze Of High-Deductible Health Plans

8:12am May 03, 2019

by Rachel Martin

The average deductible for employer-sponsored health insurance has quadrupled in the last 12 years. A Los Angeles Times investigation finds even insured workers are going without needed medical care.

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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Institute of Politics.

'His Ideology Is White Supremacy': Ta-Nehisi Coates On Donald Trump

3:18pm September 07, 2017

by Jeffrey Pierre

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about his cover story in The Atlantic magazine about Donald Trump, and how voters reacted to the first African-American president.

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Federal housing policies created after the Depression ensured that African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects, such as Detroit's Brewster-Douglass towers.

A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

9:28am May 04, 2017

by Terry Gross

Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.

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Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won re-election as House minority leader on Wednesday with support from just over two-thirds of her caucus.

Politics & Government

Pelosi Overcomes Challenge To Win Re-Election As House Democratic Leader

1:30pm November 30, 2016

by Jessica Taylor

The California Democrat got 134 votes to Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan's 63, but it was the most serious challenge to her leadership she has faced since taking over the top slot in the House in 2003.

Politics & Government

The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class

1:44pm November 03, 2016

New Yorker writer George Packer says years of neglect from the Democrats enabled Trump to exploit the biases of the white working class and turn them into a "self-conscious identity group."

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