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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>California’s Novel Attempt at Land Reparations</strong> - Property seized from a Black family a century ago is being returned to their descendants. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/californias-novel-attempt-at-land-reparations">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Naomi Osaka Takes a Complicated Stand</strong> - Her withdrawal from the French Open has already shifted an ongoing debate about athletes, mental health, and the press. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/naomi-osaka-takes-a-complicated-stand">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Unique Dangers of the Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear a Mississippi Abortion Case</strong> - The most pressing question now may be not whether Roe and Casey can survive but how reproductive rights can be sustained without them. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/the-unique-dangers-of-the-supreme-courts-decision-to-hear-a-mississippi-abortion-case">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Peril of Not Vaccinating the World</strong> - Absent a concerted global commitment to vaccine equity, the virus will continue to evolve, and humanity may be consigned to a never-ending pandemic. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-peril-of-not-vaccinating-the-world">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Age of Reopening Anxiety</strong> - What if we’re scared to go back to normal life? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-returns/the-age-of-reopening-anxiety">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>17 seasons in, Grey’s Anatomy reimagined itself for the pandemic. But only a little bit.</strong> -
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Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) looks for some downtime in <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em>’s season 17 premiere. | ABC
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The show’s take on 2020 was extremely weird — and surprisingly moving.
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Watching the 17th season of <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> over a couple of weeks, around a month after my Covid-19 vaccination became fully effective, was a strangely retraumatizing experience.
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When the season debuted in November 2020, many Americans were still in quarantine, and Covid-19 cases in the US were about to spike again. But I watched 16 episodes of it in May and June 2021, as cases were on a steep decline and vaccinations were on the rise. Life was returning to a semblance of normal, where we all tried to figure out the etiquette of who should still wear face masks and when. It played as an extremely recent period piece for me, and watching it was weird and discomfiting.
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Across the 2020–’21 TV season, most major broadcast-network series set in the present day at least paid lip service to the idea there was a pandemic going on, but dramas especially seemed completely flummoxed by how to blend Covid-19 with their storytelling. (Comedies, especially <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22350628/superstore-series-finale-capitalism-comedy-covid-19"><em>Superstore</em></a> and <em>The Conners</em>, had a better go of incorporating references to the pandemic into their typical fare.)
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In theory, <em>Grey’s</em> should have been just as confounded. Though it’s a medical drama, its heavy rotation of soap elements and storylines about people having sex with each other would seem to cut against the moment. It’s easy enough to imagine that viewers might have struggled to invest in sexy complications when the real world seemed like it was falling apart. Acknowledging Covid-19 may have served to make a show many people think of as comfort food into a real bummer instead.
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Judging from how many <em>Grey’s</em> fans said, “This was the saddest season ever!” every time I tweeted about getting caught up in time for the season 17 finale (which airs Thursday), a lot of people did experience the season as a real bummer. But I kinda liked it? Question mark?
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<em>Grey’s Anatomy </em>season 17 is about both the grim realities of Covid-19 and hanging out on a mystical beach in the afterlife
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<img alt="Doctors at Grey-Sloan Memorial look in at Meredith as she wakes up." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lnWHcmZkxCbB8BL_Flufgqei82Y=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22555956/159368_0052.jpg"/> <cite>ABC</cite>
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The doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital eventually grew inured to the Covid-19 crisis, though it continued to exhaust them.
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The two-hour premiere of season 17 — listed as two separate episodes on Hulu — drops us into a Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital (the series renamed its central setting from Seattle Grace Mercy West in season nine, in case you haven’t watched since the show’s heyday in the mid-2000s) where everybody is overworked and everything is falling apart. The premiere is exhausting in a way that makes you viscerally feel the numb horror of watching the casualty count climb higher and higher and higher and higher.
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Every character is masked and wearing multiple layers of PPE. Meredith Grey’s voiceover sounds more worn down than ever before. Dr. Richard Webber, previously pseudo-retired but active in the hospital in a primarily administrative capacity, returns to help coordinate its Covid-19 response and grimly announces that more and more places in Grey Sloan (including, eventually, the cafeteria) will be used to house Covid patients. It’s rough!
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But what’s even more bonkers is that the premiere then attempts to wrap up a number of extant storylines from season 16, which was cut short by a few episodes in spring 2020 as the pandemic forced production shutdowns across Hollywood. This choice means one doctor’s insistence that a couple who brought their daughter to the hospital for medical care are actually human traffickers — and the daughter is actually a girl they kidnapped — remains a vital plot point, even though everybody is suddenly wearing face masks and discussing a skyrocketing death rate. I know the onset of the pandemic didn’t immediately cancel everyone’s personal problems, but this specific storyline, with its soapy twists and turns, stands out amid the grim realism of everything else.
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What’s even more bonkers than that is when, at the end of that two-hour premiere, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) — the show’s lead since it debuted in 2005 — collapses, sick with Covid. Shortly thereafter, she lapses out of consciousness, and the next time we see her, she’s on a mystical beach possibly in the afterlife. Could Meredith Grey, who has survived so many traumatic incidents that she <a href="https://greysanatomy.fandom.com/wiki/Some_Kind_of_Miracle">nearly died and visited the afterlife once before</a> in the show’s third season, actually succumb to Covid-19? Probably not, but the show certainly wants to tease the idea.
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Meredith proceeds to hang out on the beach for nearly the entire season. There, she chats with several of the show’s notable cast members who have died over the years, particularly Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), her boyfriend-turned-husband for much of the show’s run. Again: She does this for most of the season, visiting the mystical dream beach for the first time in episode three and waking up in episode 13.
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Don’t get me wrong. It’s kind of lovely to see Meredith interact with characters who’ve long since left the show, including George (T.R. Knight), who started as an intern at the same time but died in the season six premiere. Knight’s final episode was actually the season five finale — still one of the show’s all-time best — which aired in 2009. I remember George as a vital part of <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> because he was a vital part of its first seven seasons (after which I fell off watching), but he hasn’t been on the show in 12 years! And there he is on a mystical beach!
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It’s easy to snark about the beach stuff, because a lot of it is supremely silly. Derek spends much of his time telling Meredith that “the sand’s not real,” a metaphor that’s never quite as meaningful as the show wants it to be. The portrayal of the beach as a kind of heavenly antechamber, where the dead hang out and check up on their living loved ones, sure makes it seem like everybody who died across the course of <em>Grey’s</em> is just waiting for Meredith to die so they can move on. (Some of them mention their kids, but we all know they’re sticking around for Mer.) And that’s before<em> </em>the show puts still-living characters — who are standing by Meredith’s bedside in the hospital and monologuing at her — on the beach so she can smile beatifically at them as they say their piece.
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I’m a sucker for any storyline that takes on the weight of a long-running show, revealing just how much everybody within that show has grown and changed over the years. So I found a lot of the beach stuff, hokey though it was, pretty moving, especially as a contrast to the grimmer realities of the hospital. (<em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> has been on the air a long time!) The beach storyline pays off beautifully, even if you haven’t watched the show regularly for a decade (as I haven’t), and it keeps <em>Grey’s</em> relatable to viewers who may have returned to the show after a long absence, curious to see how it would handle the pandemic.
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These two storylines kinda contradict each other. One is about the inevitable dying of the light; the other is about rage, raging against it.
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<img alt="Meredith and Derek part ways with a fond farewell on the mystical beach." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/7kvt8BnZv8rQc6GrI3Cou_Ls7Hs=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22555673/159368_0033.jpg"/> <cite>ABC</cite>
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Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) says goodbye to Derek (Patrick Dempsey), leaving him in the afterlife while she returns to the world of the living.
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As season 17 goes on, Meredith’s presence on the beach starts to feel a little more ludicrous. As Covid-19 ceases to be a novel crisis for the characters and slowly becomes part of their day-to-day lives, Meredith is still off to the side somewhere, quietly almost dying. Considering the literal only plot card the beach storyline has to play is, “Will Meredith die or wake up?” it’s a wonder <em>Grey</em>’s managed to squeeze so much drama from it. But eventually, even I — a known fan of dumb mystical bullshit on my favorite TV shows — was begging her to just wake up already.
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What helped <em>Grey</em>’s make Meredith’s literal limbo more believable is that season 17 takes place in a compressed time frame. The season opens in March 2020, when Covid first found a significant foothold in the US in Seattle (“conveniently” where <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> is set), and by episode 12 has made it only as far as the historic Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, which began in late May and early June 2020.
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The season’s penultimate episode speeds through six weeks of time, and judging from some Christmas decorations in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSTEm7lmXuE">the promotional trailer for the finale</a>, it might involve a time jump to the 2020 holiday season. Still, earlier seasons of <em>Grey’s</em> have mostly unfolded concurrently with the calendar of our reality. This one reacted to an unprecedented and eventful year by slowing down and stretching out time.
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The move worked in the series’ favor in some ways (like making Meredith’s storyline feel vaguely plausible), and undercut its emotional and dramatic payoff in others. The Black Lives Matter protests, for instance, mostly come and go in a single hour, with unfortunate overtones of a “very special episode”; a less-compressed season less beholden to the events of our reality might have been better able to create an entire storyline about racial injustice.
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Yet the compressed timeframe also highlighted how the season’s two main storylines contradicted each other, at least a little bit. As Covid became an exhausting reality for the characters, who tried to conserve ventilators and had to deal with their own mandatory quarantines after positive tests, death became part of the background noise of the show even more than usual on a hospital drama. Meanwhile, Meredith’s drawn-out case — one that involves her miraculously breathing on her own after the doctors make the difficult decision to take her off her ventilator — suggests death is inevitable, unless you’re the protagonist of a popular television show.
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The protagonists of popular television shows usually <em>are</em> death-proof, at least until their series finales. (<a href="https://megaphone.link/VMP4176446192">Jack Bauer, what’s up</a>?) Shows rarely make a major effort to point that out as painstakingly as <em>Grey’s</em> accidentally does here, however. It is certainly poignant to imagine that every single Covid patient suffering from the disease and potentially dying alone is actually being comforted in limbo by loved ones who died before them. But I had to make about 15 conceptual leaps to get to that idea from what <em>Grey</em>’s presented, especially because most of Meredith’s pals work at the hospital and can pop by her bedside to emotionally reminisce whenever they like.
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(Also: I know Sandra Oh, who left <em>Grey’s</em> at the end of season 10, <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/sandra-oh-says-she-wont-return-to-greys-anatomy-season-18.html">has said she’ll never come back</a> to the show, but the whole enterprise would have been better with a one-episode tale where Cristina Zooms in to tell Meredith how much she loves her, only to appear on the beach alongside her. I’m just saying.)
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Still, in the middle of all its thematic confusion, season 17 of <em>Grey’s</em> is often intensely moving. I cried multiple times, especially as Meredith’s efforts to survive became more central to the story. Even the season’s least-successful episodes were admirably experimental, like the one set in a different character’s dream (where Meredith grimly intones, “Time of death: September 11, 2001,” about the character’s long-dead true love, in case <em>Grey’s</em> hadn’t already referenced enough traumatic national events to keep you occupied).
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<em>Grey’s Anatomy</em>’s 17th season may have been the show’s “saddest,” but it still had plenty of bed-hopping and weary banter between doctors disagreeing over patients. That life can go on at Grey Sloan Memorial means it can go on anywhere. When Meredith Grey wakes up again (because her daughter cries over her at her bedside — omg, you guys ), it seems less like she has defeated death and more like she has accepted the fact that she lives in a TV show. Sometimes, the point of comfort-food TV isn’t that it ignores our reality; sometimes, the point is just that it’s there every week, for better or worse.
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<li><strong>America’s cruel unemployment experiment</strong> -
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Demonstrators rally near Capitol Hill for the extension of unemployment benefits on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Nearly a year later, workers’ benefits are in flux again, even as the economy is far from recovered. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images
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Cutting off unemployment insurance early is all politics, not economics.
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Karen just needs a few more months to finally get her massage business back off the ground. Business was booming before the pandemic, and relying on unemployment insurance hasn’t been easy. “I’ve been saving every penny,” she tells me, describing, with what sounds like a hint of shame, how she’s “learned to live without lights” to try to keep her electricity bill low and has started to shower less to cut down on the water. “I made a lot more money when I was working,” she says.
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It’s taking her some time to get clients to return, and she expected to be back to work and off unemployment insurance by August. But the rug is being pulled out from under her: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-end-to-federal-pandemic-related-unemployment-benefits#:~:text=Governor%20Greg%20Abbott%20today%20informed,Federal%20Pandemic%20Unemployment%20Compensation%20program.">has decided</a> to opt his state out of expanded unemployment benefits early. And he’s hardly alone in that choice.
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Federal unemployment programs that added extra weekly money and extended benefits to those who wouldn’t normally receive them, such as freelancers and people who have been unemployed long-term, were put in place in response to the pandemic. They were supposed to end on Labor Day. Now 25 states — all Republican-led — are cutting them off as early as June, arguing that the extra support is no longer needed. They say that generous benefits are keeping people out of work and causing a labor shortage, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/07/jobs-report-labor-shortage-analysis/">even though it’s far from clear that’s what’s going on</a>.
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States are about to undertake a reckless and unnecessary experiment in cutting off expanded unemployment in the midst of a rocky recovery, with the lives and livelihoods of an <a href="https://twitter.com/pelhamprog/status/1397576683310432258?s=20">estimated</a> 4 million workers in the balance.
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“We’ve had this message throughout the pandemic that we’re going to make sure that people who were disadvantaged by it would have the support they needed until things recover,” said Andrew Stettner, senior fellow at the Century Foundation. But from some corners, that message has gone away. “Sympathy for the unemployed disappeared the minute some people got two vaccine doses.”
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Many workers, including Karen (whose last name is being withheld to protect her privacy), have been caught by surprise and are scrambling to figure out what’s next. “I don’t know how I’m going to be able to make my rent,” Karen says. “I’m going to have to start begging clients to come in.”
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Cutting off unemployment early is a political decision, not an economic one
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When the Covid-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, millions of people lost their jobs seemingly overnight, and Congress took sweeping measures to try to provide them with extra support. The federal government added an extra $600 in weekly federal benefits through July 2020. (Those dollars expired for a while but were then reinstated as $300 in extra benefits.) It also enacted programs that would support people who don’t normally qualify for unemployment, such as freelancers, independent contractors, and gig workers, and for people who are long-term unemployed. They also lengthened the number of weeks an unemployed worker could receive benefits once they exhausted their state benefits in an effort to help the long-term unemployed.
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That decision — namely, the extra dollars in federal benefits — was politicized from the start. Many Republicans and even some Democrats argued that $600 was just too much, noting that some people would make more on unemployment than they would at work. They also fretted that overly generous unemployment would keep people from returning to work, a perennial talking point among businesses and conservatives.
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“The extra money was very politicized, even more politicized than other unemployment insurance issues in the past,” Stettner said.
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As vaccines have become more widespread and the economy has started to recover, the fretting around unemployment insurance has reached a fever pitch amid chatter that there’s a labor shortage and speculation about what’s causing it. There’s a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/briefing/labor-shortages-covid-wages.html?referringSource=articleShare">simple, capitalistic answer</a> if companies are struggling to find workers willing to work at the wages and conditions they’re offering: raise those wages, and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-01/how-to-get-the-unemployed-back-to-work">make the conditions more attractive to workers</a>. But the chatter continued, and the April jobs report, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/5/7/22424859/april-jobs-report-economy">which showed far fewer jobs were added to the economy than expected</a>, became the tipping point. Business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, <a href="https://twitter.com/USChamber/status/1390670704736149507">upped calls</a> for states to end unemployment.
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Montana and South Carolina <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/politics/montana-pandemic-unemployment-benefits/index.html">said they were going to opt out</a> of enhanced unemployment programs, and now <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy-unemployment/half-of-u-s-states-to-end-biden-backed-pandemic-unemployment-early-idUSL2N2NK1H2">half of all states</a>, all Republican-run, <a href="https://tcf.org/content/commentary/fact-sheet-whats-stake-states-cancel-federal-unemployment-benefits/">have followed suit</a>. All are axing the extra $300, and most are getting rid of the other expanded programs.
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<q>“Sympathy for the unemployed disappeared the minute some people got two vaccine doses”</q>
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Those in support of cutting off jobless benefits early say that it’s an economic decision. But it’s hard not to see it as one largely driven by politics.
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About 8 million fewer people are currently employed than prior to the pandemic, and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-02/employment-disparities-between-young-and-old-widened-during-pandemic?sref=cv51C53O">people ages 20 to 24</a> continue to see double-digit unemployment rates. While vaccine rates are rising and businesses are reopening, the economy is going through many fits and starts, and the recovery is going to take time. <a href="https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf">Nearly 16 million people</a> are still receiving benefits under all unemployment programs, which, as <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-jobless-claims-coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-a7ea3e65542c137865bd449626b31461">the Associated Press</a> points out, is about eight times as many people as were getting benefits in August 2014, when the unemployment rate was about what it is now. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), chair of the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, released a <a href="https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d6b6396c-cbac-48e9-986f-20f589a3798a/fpuc-and-gop-govs-06.01.2021.pdf">report</a> that found cutting off unemployment early could cost local economies over $12 billion, and just ending the $300 will cost would-be beneficiaries $775 million each week.
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JPMorgan’s economic research team wrote in a note in late May that opting out of UI before the timeline set by Congress appears to be “tied to politics, not economics.” They noted that indicators of economic health didn’t really coincide with unemployment-related decisions. “While some of these states have tight labor markets and strong earnings growth, many of them do not,” they wrote.
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NOTABLE: JPMorgan just sent out a note saying the 23 GOP states ending UI extra $300 early is “tied to politics, not economics.”<br/><br/>“While some of these states have tight labor markets and strong earnings growth, many of them do not.” <a href="https://t.co/sEq6B3MdYm">pic.twitter.com/sEq6B3MdYm</a>
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— Heather Long (<span class="citation" data-cites="byHeatherLong">@byHeatherLong</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1397641138488725504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2021</a>
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The unemployment rate in Texas, for example, is <a href="https://www.twc.texas.gov/news/texas-unemployment-rate-falls-67-percent">still above</a> the national unemployment rate. And many people looking for work there know just how hard it can be. Lynn, who lost her job as an office manager near Houston in March, has sent out over 100 résumés but so far has only gotten two callbacks. “There isn’t anything I haven’t tried to get a job over the last two months,” says Lynn, whose last name is being withheld to protect her privacy. “Do you think I like sitting on my tookie all day?”
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At her age — she’s 59 — she worries a lot of companies just aren’t interested. But she’s really not in a position where she can take just anything: She needs to make enough money to pay for her mortgage so she can keep her home. Her partner uses a motorized wheelchair, and they can’t easily pick up and move. She’s already strategizing how she can make extra money while she continues to look for steady work, by mowing lawns and cleaning houses. “We’re going to be so screwed,” she says. “There’s going to be a lot of sleepless nights here.”
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Karen told a similar story of anxiety over Abbott’s decision. “I’ve had nightmares for two weeks since this has been announced,” she said. Her dog is on anti-anxiety medication, and she said she’s snuck one sometimes just to sleep.
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It’s not clear what this will prove, or whether proving anything is worth it
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There’s been quite a fierce debate about what is contributing to some workers feeling hesitant to go back to work and how quick or slow the labor market recovery will be. While some business groups and economists point to unemployment insurance as the culprit, there are also plenty of other explanations — continued concerns about the pandemic, a lack of access to child care, people rethinking their career paths or holding out for better jobs. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to figure out exactly what is motivating who, and many people could be motivated by multiple factors.
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A <a href="https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2021-13.pdf">working paper</a> out of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco estimated that the $300 weekly unemployment supplement has been making a “small but likely noticeable contribution to job-finding rates and employers’ perceptions of worker availability.” How small: They estimate that if seven of 28 workers receive job offers they would normally accept in the early months of this year, just one would say no in order to hold on to the $300.
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The question then becomes: Does the choice made by that one worker to stay unemployed a little longer really need to outweigh the lifeline that many workers desperately need?
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“If you’re saying I’m just going to shut off your benefits, but I still don’t have child care, and I still don’t have a way to ensure my child is attending their digital school, how is that going to force me into the labor market?” said Rebecca Dixon, executive director of the National Employment Law Project (NELP). “It may force me into homelessness. It may force me to be hungry. There’s an enormous amount of workers that are still behind on rent. This whole narrative is just completely wrong, and it’s incomplete.”
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She also nodded to the racial undertones of what’s happening with unemployment: Many of the states cutting off pandemic programs early are those with many Black workers, and they’re also often the states with the stingiest and hardest-to-navigate unemployment systems. “At the root of all this is this narrative that Americans have to be forced to go to work, and it is completely and totally rooted in structural racism,” Dixon said. “Because who was being forced to work in the 1800s? Black people.”
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The point of unemployment isn’t to make workers take just any job. It’s designed to give workers the time to match with a job that’s at least on par with the job they had before, which is what many of them are doing.
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Justin, who runs an electric taxi operation in downtown Austin, didn’t want or need to find another line of work during the pandemic. He took out two <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/2/23/22295154/paycheck-protection-program">Paycheck Protection Program loans</a> for small businesses and took advantage of unemployment. Now that nightlife is picking back up and people are out and about, he’s headed back to work and off of jobless benefits. For him, the system worked. “Not having a job wasn’t my issue; it was not being able to work,” he said.
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<aside id="J9zMdI">
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<q>“If you’re saying I’m just going to shut off your benefits, but I still don’t have child care, and I still don’t have a way to ensure my child is attending their digital school, how is that going to force me into the labor market?”</q>
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The hope that governors and businesses have in cutting off unemployment is that it will force people back into the workforce and make it so that they have basically no option but to accept any job, no matter the pay or benefits or hours. It’s not clear how their experiment will work: <a href="https://twitter.com/JedKolko/status/1397890124206071808?s=20">Indeed found</a> that job search activity rose modestly — and temporarily — when states announced they were opting out early.
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Telling people they would have support through the summer and then unexpectedly taking it away doesn’t solve the problems that might be keeping them out of work; it just turns those problems into an emergency.
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<h3 id="dYBRbw">
|
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Unemployment insurance needs an overhaul
|
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Once governors began announcing they were cutting off unemployment insurance, many people were shocked. Congress had said unemployment would go through Labor Day, and workers were caught off-guard that this could even happen. After all, the programs being cut off are <a href="https://ogletree.com/insights/pandemic-unemployment-assistance-20-questions-and-answers-for-employers/">funded by federal money</a>, not the states.
|
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“These are temporary programs, and the way that these temporary programs are administered is an agreement between the secretary of labor and the governor of the states, and that agreement gives either side — the Labor Department or the state — 30 days to terminate it,” Stettner said. “That’s what’s happening. They’re exercising this termination clause in the agreement.”
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Some experts, politicians, and advocacy groups have argued that the Labor Department should step in to try to stop states from ending benefits. <a href="https://www.nelp.org/wp-content/uploads/REVISED-AND-UPDATED-Memo-on-Early-Term-of-CARES-agreements-w_clarityonoverall-UI-numbers.pdf">NELP put out a memo</a> laying out the case that the labor secretary has to figure out a way to keep Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which covers self-employed people, part-time workers, and people who wouldn’t otherwise qualify for regular unemployment compensation, going. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sent a <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1392888579005853698?s=20">letter</a> to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh reiterating NELP’s case.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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Democrats in Congress secured life-saving unemployment aid to workers so they wouldn’t have to go back to work for starvation wages or without childcare. I sent a letter to Labor Secretary Walsh today asking him to ensure Republican Governors do not strip that assistance away. <a href="https://t.co/Ik1TJatEZP">pic.twitter.com/Ik1TJatEZP</a>
|
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</p>
|
||
— Bernie Sanders (<span class="citation" data-cites="SenSanders">@SenSanders</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1392888579005853698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2021</a>
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</blockquote>
|
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</div>
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Thus far, the administration insists that its <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/20/states-unemployment-insurance-cuts-490028">hands are tied</a> on keeping unemployment going in states that are trying to shut it off. A Labor official told Vox that they believe their authority is nil on the matter, and that because states administer unemployment insurance, it’s next to impossible to find workarounds where the federal government or other states would pay benefits. The official said they are still open to ideas.
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</p>
|
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Some advocates and workers have expressed doubts that there’s really nothing the federal government can do, as well as frustration that many Democrats aren’t speaking out more about the matter. “I have been extremely disappointed by the silence from President Biden and from the secretary [of labor] to not sort of more publicly call out [what’s happening],” said Rachel Deutsch, who heads the Unemployed Action movement at the Center for Popular Democracy.
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|
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<div class="c-float-right">
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<aside id="7egekX">
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<q>Telling people they would have support through the summer and then unexpectedly taking it away doesn’t solve the problems that might be keeping them out of work; it just turns those problems into an emergency</q>
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</aside>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="ytVP2x">
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Some unemployed workers are organizing to try to protest and keep their promised benefits, and advocates insist there are ways to help. But the current situation points to the broader problem of how deeply flawed America’s unemployment insurance system is. If it were more robust, we wouldn’t be here. “This is actually a microcosm of the full dysfunctionality of the unemployment insurance system as a whole,” Deutsch said.
|
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This has been painfully evident for a long time, and particularly acute during the pandemic. Unemployment insurance is run as a state-federal partnership that gives states a lot of leeway in how they administer the program. That has translated to low benefits in many states and impossible-to-navigate bureaucracy. Even more than a year after the pandemic hit, workers still describe spending hours on the phone and on websites trying to figure out how to apply for unemployment. Ken, a Texas teacher who is trying to figure out what to do without unemployment for the last two months before he goes back to school in the fall, said Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) office finally helped him get through to the state agency to at least collect what he’s owed before he’s cut off. “If I send a message to Ted Cruz’s office, they get me on a call list, and I get a call back,” said Ken, whose last name is being withheld to protect his privacy. (Anecdotal evidence from a Facebook group of unemployed people from Texas suggests Cruz’s office is highly effective in helping people navigate the system.)
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="CCPx2o">
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What happens consistently in downturns is that federal lawmakers need to step in to decide whether to help unemployed people instead of putting in <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22277339/covid-19-relief-bill-automatic-stabilizers">some sort of automatic triggers</a>, which would mean help is dictated by economic conditions and not political whims. Maybe some of the states cutting off benefits right now do have economies that merit it, but not all of them do.
|
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="9io7Su">
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“We have to have standards for the benefits at all times so we don’t have to so drastically increase them,” Stettner said. “And if we’re going to have federally supported programs, we may need to have some provision in law that allows the federal government to directly pay them if the state refuses.”
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We don’t know when the next recession will come, but we know that it will. And the country and workers will be stuck in this doom loop unless there is real change or, perhaps, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/21430930/covid-unemployment-600-cares-act-the-great-rebuild">the entire system is overhauled</a>.
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</p>
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“Fundamentally, if we are really serious about having an income support program that is countercyclical, that actually puts money into the economy when we’re heading into a downturn and provides people with money to meet their basic needs, we actually need to create that program,” Dixon said, “because what we have now is not adequate.”
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</p>
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Karen, whose husband died in 2017, is currently collecting about $418 a week in unemployment. It’s enough to pay the rent for her house and for the shared office she’ll soon be working out of yet again, but not much more. “It’s just enough to make it by,” she said, “and live in the dark.”
|
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</p>
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Later this month, she thinks it will be cut to $0.
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<li><strong>The false promises of more immigration enforcement</strong> -
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<img alt="" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/M7f7V8nfs3iZuMNYamKSwO0YdZ4=/0x0:4961x3721/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69382129/1232872613.0.jpg"/>
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<figcaption>
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A family of asylum seekers from Colombia boards the Border Patrol Inmate transport after they turned themselves in to US Border Patrol agents on May 13 in Yuma, Arizona. | Apu Gomes/Getty Images
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Harsh detention and deportation policies haven’t deterred migrants.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="UV0caN">
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President Joe Biden has taken some steps toward reversing his predecessor’s legacy of broad, indiscriminate immigration enforcement, including a recent <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/ice-detentions-county-jails-halted/2021/05/20/9c0bdd1e-b8de-11eb-a6b1-81296da0339b_story.html">announcement</a> that it will no longer detain immigrants at two locations under scrutiny for alleged abuses.
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</p>
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But Republicans are adamant that increased immigration enforcement be a prerequisite to any broader immigration reform.
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</p>
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“There’ll be no immigration reform until you get control of the border,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2021/05/12/bipartisan-immigration-talks-thwarted-by-escalating-migration/">told Roll Call</a> last month.
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</p>
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There are now <a href="https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/05/20/biden-immigration-enforcement/?emci=946f0af6-03b9-eb11-a7ad-501ac57ba3ed&emdi=41dc89d1-d2bb-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=7999755#.YKeVE6hKg-U">nearly 40 percent more people </a>in immigration detention compared to when Biden first took office, and his administration is continuing to turn away most migrants arriving on the border under <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22398712/biden-title-42-migrant-border-expel">pandemic-related restrictions </a>put in place by his predecessor, President Donald Trump, which have led to the expulsions of <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/title-8-and-title-42-statistics">more than 350,000 people </a>this year alone.
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</p>
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But research shows that the threat of detention and deportation in the US doesn’t dissuade migrants from making the journey to the southern border, especially if they are victims of violence and may be seeking to escape the “devil they know” in their home countries.
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“Managing migration at the border, particularly the kind of migration we’re seeing now, from a strictly deterrence, enforcement lens is just not sustainable in the long run and is not having the impact that people think it should have,” Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said. “That’s why we need to rethink our paradigm for how we talk about migration and everything that we do at the border.”
|
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</p>
|
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Detention and deportations don’t deter migrants from coming
|
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="4zU63S">
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The US started dramatically ramping up immigration enforcement in the 1990s with bipartisan support. The line of thinking was that making it more expensive and arduous to cross the border would dissuade more people from making the journey in the first place. It became the preferred strategy for policymakers because it was easy to sell to constituents, even though it wasn’t necessarily grounded in a deep understanding of the factors driving unauthorized immigration.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="cb2AFx">
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But a growing body of research shows that the threat of immigration enforcement isn’t an effective deterrent for migrants in the long run. Emily Ryo, a professor of law and sociology at the USC Gould School of Law, found in a <a href="http://email.msgsnd.com/c/eJwdjkFuhDAMRU8Dy8iOHZwssuiI9h4JSWaQICBgSo_ftJL9bX99yS95ESihn70GjWBQNJIYUKgY6fGgkd048qcT2zGs5_OsSU3b2r_8YBwTD-QMR4okueQcxMqAFCHp1C_-dV372dFHp79a3fet9hpOtR3Pdk5bvXK92vZntoFom2pskhsLAUCzVHkvi9pT6Q9f52lbsqrhyKHhfG8_a05z-Ae6PDI5SDYztffalmJYGAcmk4bYukWcKRERgBNlmYwwWKBgCgYBsRR_AfF1TCI">paper</a> published earlier this month that it has no significant effect on people’s decision to migrate from Mexico and Central America’s “Northern Triangle”: Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
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In cooperation with Vanderbilt University and the Latin American Public Opinion Project, she designed an experiment that was included in the 2018-’19 AmericasBarometer survey of nearly 11,000 voting-age adults across the four countries. She divided the respondents into three groups and provided them with different prompts offering information about how many migrants are apprehended by US officials when trying to cross the border, subject to detention for an indefinite period of time, and face a lack of judicial process when it comes to their deportation. They were then asked how likely it would be that they would choose to live and work in the US in the next three years.
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The patterns in responses across the groups were strikingly similar, though they were provided with different information about US immigration enforcement policy. Most said they weren’t likely to go to the US, but in all three groups, about 21 percent said they were “a little likely to go,” 10 percent said they were “somewhat likely,” and roughly another 10 percent said “very likely.”
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Knowledge about US deportation and detention policy didn’t have any significant effect on their intentions to migrate. Ryo even did an analysis to account for potential differences in how persuasive the information about US policy might be for different populations, such as people experiencing crime and violence, people with family ties to the US who might be seeking reunification, and people leaving for economic reasons. It still didn’t make a statistically significant difference.
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“To the extent that what we’re trying to do with our immigration enforcement policy is to deter people, my study does not support that approach in terms of use of policies like immigration detention to achieve that purpose,” Ryo said.
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Another<a href="https://larrlasa.org/articles/10.25222/larr.147/"> study</a>, conducted by Vanderbilt University political science professor Jonathan Hiskey and co-authors, similarly found that knowledge of heightened US deterrence efforts didn’t influence people’s decision to migrate.
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They analyzed 2014 survey data from more than 3,000 people in 12 Honduran municipalities with varying rates of homicide and crime victimization. The survey was conducted just as the Obama administration was pushing its “Dangers Awareness” campaign featuring more than 6,000 public service announcements and more than 600 billboards. The overriding message was that the US would send people back to their home country if they tried to cross the border.
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Most survey takers thought that crossing the border was more difficult and less safe than it was the previous year, and that it involved an increased risk of deportation and worse treatment of migrants. In that respect, the campaign had appeared to succeed in persuading Hondurans that migrating to the US was a “highly dangerous proposition with little chance of success,” according to the researchers.
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You might expect that would have made them less likely to eventually migrate. But that’s not what the researchers found; the survey takers’ views of the dangers of migration to the US and the likelihood of deportation did not seem to influence their plans to migrate in any meaningful way.
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Rather, the factor that was most associated with people’s desire to migrate was whether they were victims of crimes, as is the case for many asylum seekers fleeing gang violence in Honduras.
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“The detention and deportation of current migrants from El Salvador and Honduras, along with the extensive publicity of these detention and deportation proceedings, is unlikely to persuade many of the individuals in these countries who are directly experiencing the tragically high levels of crime and violence,” the researchers wrote.
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Knowledge of US immigration detention, however, did have an unintended effect on survey takers in Ryo’s experiment — it made them more likely to think outcomes and legal procedures in the American immigration system are unfair. That is worrisome, given that perceptions of fairness are significant predictors of people’s willingness to obey the law and cooperate with legal authorities, Ryo said.
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“We really ought to be concerned about the extent to which generating these kinds of perceptions of unfairness can backfire in terms of more people disregarding our laws and undertaking that dangerous journey in order to get to our border and try to cross it,” she added.
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More undocumented immigrants have settled in the US due to increased enforcement
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Another unintended effect of US immigration enforcement has been the increase in the number of undocumented immigrants living in the US from roughly 3 million in 1986 to over 11 million today. Princeton sociologist Doug Massey and his co-authors found in a <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27721512/">2016 paper</a> that the rapid expansion of immigration enforcement in the years following 1986, the last time that a major immigration law was passed, actually caused more migrants to decide to settle in the US permanently.
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Before then, Mexican men had moved back and forth across the border, usually looking for opportunities for temporary work and crossing in El Paso and San Diego. The US’s decision to expand immigration enforcement didn’t really alter their ability to cross the border. They weren’t much more likely to be apprehended when they attempted to cross, and even if they were discovered by US immigration officials and swiftly returned to Mexico, they could still succeed after multiple attempts.
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What changed, however, was the costs and risks associated with returning to their home country and then attempting to reenter the US. Migrants had to start crossing in more dangerous regions of the border, going through the Sonoran Desert and Arizona, and came to rely more heavily on the services of paid smugglers, which became more expensive. Between 1980 and 2010, the probability that a migrant would return after their first trip to the US consequently dropped from 48 percent to zero, according to Massey’s paper.
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“The combination of increasingly costly and risky trips and the near certainty of getting into the United States created a decision-making contest in which it still made economic sense to migrate but not to return home to face the high costs and risks of subsequent entry attempts,” the authors write in the paper.
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In this way, immigration enforcement had the opposite of the intended effect. And the authors write that if policymakers had never increased border patrol’s funding beyond accounting for inflation, the population of undocumented immigrants living in the US likely would have “grown substantially less.”
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What might reverse the trend is if the US legalizes the population of undocumented immigrants living in the US, or at least broad swaths of it, which might allow more people to return to their home country.
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But first, US policymakers need to reckon with the ways existing strategies to deter unauthorized immigration haven’t worked.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="4XIQEC">
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“Our policymakers have not actually been very attentive to trying to better understand what the actual effects of our enforcement policies are, and that’s very problematic because tons of resources are going into implementing certain policies that actually don’t need to the outcome that we desire, and can lead to unintended consequences that we do not desire,” Ryo said.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><strong>A jew visits a brothel</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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He talks to the guy at reception:
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Hello, I want to see Samantha.
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One moment sir.
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A beautiful young woman comes downstairs.
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-Have you asked for me?
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Yes, I want to spend the night with you.
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Alright but my service is a bit expensive. $1000 for a night.
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Doesn’t matter, I want to spend the night with you.
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They go upstairs and spend the night together.
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Next day, the man comes to the brothel again. He says:
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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I want to see Samantha.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Sir, we do have other prostitutes as well.
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I don’t care, I want to see Samantha.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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They call Samantha and she comes downstairs. Seeing the man, Samantha asks:
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You again? If you remember it, I have a high service cost of $1000 a night.
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I don’t care about the money, I want to be with you.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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They be together for that night as well. The very next day, the man comes to the brothel even once more. He asks for Samantha, unsurprisingly. Samantha sees him downstairs:
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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Oh my god, you again? I am not making a discount for regulars, do you know that?
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Oh yes, doesn’t matter. Want to spend the night with you.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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After they’re done, Samantha asks:
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It’s cool that you like me this much but I can’t understand why. You paid a grand to fuck me for 3 consecutive days. Where are you from?
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Tel Aviv
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Tel Aviv, that’s cool, my sister lives there as well.
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I know, she handed me $3000 to bring to you.
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Edit: Chill the frick down guys, I am not an anti-semitist nor I am trying to promote anti-semitism. You can put different names and places and it will still be a joke. I just translated (not so successfully) and posted it like the way I’ve heard it years ago. My formatting was like a pp presentation, it is true. Some dig it some not, I don’t care but I ask you to calm down and not start political/religious arguments over a joke.
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Use an nsfw tag
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I don’t know why she became so mad. It’s pretty fucking hard to write on sand.
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What organ can expand to 10 times it’s size…
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The 6th grade science teacher, Mrs. Parks, asked her class, “Which human body part increases to ten times its size when stimulated?”
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No one answered so the teacher picked on a random student
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Little Mary stood up and said, “You should not be asking sixth graders a question like that! I’m going to tell my parents, and they will go and tell the principal, who will then fire you!”
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Mrs. Parks ignored her and asked the question again, “Which body part increases to 10 times its size when stimulated?” Little Mary’s mouth fell open. Then she said to those around her,
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“Boy, is she going to get in big trouble!”
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The teacher continued to ignore her and said to the class,
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“Anybody?”
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Finally, Billy stood up, looked around nervously, and said, “The body part that increases 10 times its size when stimulated is the pupil of the eye.”
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Mrs. Parks said, “Very good, Billy,” then turned to Mary and continued.
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“As for you, young lady, I have three things to say: One, you have a dirty mind. Two, you didn’t read your homework And three, one day you are going to be very, very disappointed.”
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