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Your guide to the economies in Super Tuesday states
The week has started with a mad dash as the remaining presidential candidates held rally after rally ahead of Super Tuesday. Eleven states will award hundreds of delegates, mostly in the South, and...
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My Economy: How a single mom makes ends meet
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both talked about jobs and wages on the campaign trail. Americans have made it clear that seeing their paychecks go up is critical. Lydia...
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My Economy: Free college "changed my life"
Most of us take free public education for granted, at least through high school. But the idea of free college really gained traction during the election season. For Mike Essl, not paying for college...
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My Economy: A Dreamer caught between DACA and what comes next
There are plus or minus 700,000 people in the U.S. brought here illegally as children who now contribute to the economy legally as a result of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — DACA for short....
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My Economy: What it’s like to be the parent of a disabled child
Healthcare is on the minds of a lot of Americans right now, in Congress and out. Margaret Enos lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her family. Enos’s daughter, now 22, was diagnosed with...
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My Economy: Refugee says America is still 'the land of opportunity'
President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order on immigration put new limits on the United States’ refugee program and barred entry for all refugees for 120 days. Patrick Ngalamulume and his brother...
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My Economy: The expensive side of working gigs
For this latest installment of our series My Economy, we hear from Tom Trimbath in Clinton, Washington. Trimbath's work includes freelance writing and consulting. My name is Tom Trimbath. I was an...
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My Economy: Learning a trade instead of taking on debt
For this latest installment of our series My Economy, we hear from John Williams, a 25-year-old bus mechanic in the San Francisco Bay Area. “My name is John Williams. To me, the economy seems sluggish...
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My Economy: Caring for seniors through art
For this latest installment of our series My Economy, we hear from Martha Rast, a therapeutic art teacher living in Tuscon, Arizona. “My name is Martha Rast, and I teach therapeutic art lessons. It’s...
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My Economy: Using grants to preserve moving image history
For this latest installment of our series My Economy, we hear from Hannah Palin, a film archive specialist at the University of Washington Library Special Collections in Seattle. I take care of all...
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Super Tuesday State Economies
The week has started with a mad dash as the remaining presidential candidates held rally after rally ahead of Super Tuesday. Eleven states will award hundreds of delegates, mostly in the South, and...
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My Economy: Hard work, risk and opportunity in Alabama
The American economy looks pretty good on paper right now. We’re adding jobs – not as many as we’d like – but we’re adding them. The country’s gross domestic product is expanding — again, not as fast...
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My Economy: What full employment actually looks like
For the next year, we’re going across the country to listen to you. Our yearlong series called My Economy zooms in and tells the story of the American economy — and the new economic normal — through...
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My Economy: In Memphis, it all happens at night
We kicked off a series we’re calling “My Economy” last month. The idea is that while the presidential candidates are debating the financial state of things for the next year or so, we are taking to...
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My Economy: The divided life of business at the border
Our team was down in El Paso a few weeks ago for our election-year series "My Economy." We collected a bunch of stories, including these about small businesses on the border. The local economy is the...
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My Economy: Life between two countries
About 70,000 people commute back and forth between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico every day to visit family, shop, work and go school. The Paso Del Norte port of entry is one of three...
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My Economy: Educational aspirations in a borderland
Bowie High School sits just 100 yards from the U.S-Mexico border. It’s one of the oldest operating high schools in El Paso, Texas. Students have a view of Juárez from their basketball courts. Many...
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Your guide to the economies in Super Tuesday states
The week has started with a mad dash as the remaining presidential candidates held rally after rally ahead of Super Tuesday. Eleven states will award hundreds of delegates, mostly in the South, and...
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My Economy: How a single mom makes ends meet
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both talked about jobs and wages on the campaign trail. Americans have made it clear that seeing their paychecks go up is critical. Lydia...
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