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      Common Misperceptions About Refugees

      Refugees go through more scrutiny, contribute substantially to the U.S. economy, and are more committed than any other immigrants to make America their home.

      Dr. Jyotika Saksena
      Oct 19, 2022

      Refugees and immigrants are one of the reasons that the U.S. is the only western country to count among the top 10 populous countries in the world. However, the population grew at the slowest rate in the U.S. in 2021 since the country's founding. Reduced refugee and immigration intake has much to do with it. Even though the Biden administration set the limit to 125,000 refugees a year, the actual intake was fewer than 26,000 refugees.

      There seems to be a lack of awareness and education in the U.S. about the level of scrutiny refugees go through compared to other immigrants.

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      Joe Biden announcing student loan debt relief portal

      'Game Changer': Biden's Student Loan Debt Relief Portal Now Live

      "If you haven't yet," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, "today is a great day to apply for student loan cancelation!"

      Jon Queally
      Oct 17, 2022

      President Joe Biden on Monday afternoon unveiled the fully operational online portal for his student loan debt forgiven program that will cancel up to $20,000 in federal loans for some borrowers.

      "This is a game changer for millions of Americans," said Biden in remarks from the White House, "and it took an incredible amount of effort to get this website done in such a short time."

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      Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking

      Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking

      The end of growth is painful. We had a foretaste of it in 2008, but the current crisis promises to be much worse.

      Richard Heinberg
      Apr 09, 2020

      Amid a horrific human tragedy of sickness and death, much of it taking place in hospitals staffed by brave but overworked and under-equipped doctors and nurses, we are all learning once again what it feels like when economic growth comes to a shuddering stop and the economy goes into reverse--shrinking and consuming itself. Millions have been thrown out of work, untold numbers of businesses shuttered. The St. Louis Federal Reserve estimates that Q2 unemployment could clock in as high as 32.1 percent (for comparison, unemployment at the depths of the Great Depression was 25 percent, and during the Great Recession of 2008-2010 it peaked at 10 percent). Though radical measures must now be adopted to slow the spread of the coronavirus, those measures are having toxic side effects on the economy.

      Yet, economic growth was bound to end at some point, with or without the virus. A few moments of critical thought confirm that the exponential expansion of the economy--whose physical processes inevitably entail extracting natural resources and dumping polluting wastes--is destined to reach limits, given the obvious and verifiable fact that we live on a finite planet.

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