Harris detailed plans to create thousands of new jobs for Puerto Ricans, provide access to affordable housing, offer loans to small businesses, accelerate disaster recovery funds, and modernize the island’s electrical grid.
More than nine years after he launched his first campaign for president, much of the media continues to struggle with how to cover Donald Trump. In a new op-ed, Jordan Zakarin describes the failures to hold Trump to account.
As the November elections approach, anti-abortion advocates are working to defeat the citizen-led initiative that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
Presidential candidates want the Latino vote, since this group has experienced the second-highest growth rate among major racial and ethnic groups in the US electorate since the previous presidential election.
Extreme abortion bans lead to not only negative health care outcomes, "but also deaths amongst pregnant women," says Geeta Minocha, an advocate for reproductive rights who is fighting to help pass Florida's Amendment 4.
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump reportedly said in a private conversation in the White House. And in an interview with The Atlantic, Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly recalled that Trump once raised the idea of needing “German generals” to him directly.
Moms know that child care is a life-shaping issue for their own families. Many are at risk of being forced onto public assistance if they can't find the affordable care that makes it possible for them to stay in the workforce. But too many moms don’t know which candidates support the solutions they need.
Harris has vowed to strengthen workers’ rights, expand financial support for the working class, boost opportunities for non-college graduates, and raise the minimum wage. Trump, meanwhile, has promised to implement tariffs on imports and repeal federal investments in clean energy, both of which would likely lead to job losses.
As Florida voters appear to support passing Amendment 4 to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution, the DeSantis administration has escalated its attempts to thwart the measure's passage.
The proposal comes days before Election Day, as Vice President Kamala Harris affixes her presidential campaign to a promise of expanding women's health care access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to undo nationwide abortion rights two years ago.
