[Black Business]
Of the 5.7 million US firms with paid employees, about 124,000 — or a little more than 2% — were Black-owned in 2017, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of the Census Bureau’s most recent survey of US businesses.
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Brookings Institution
IMMIGRANTS PROVING THEMSELVES INDISPENSABLE BY COVID-19 SACRIFICES
[Immigration\COCID-19]
From agricultural workers to healthcare professionals, immigrant workers are again proving themselves as an indispensable, skilled part of our national effort to combat and contain COVID-19 – despite ongoing anxieties over their immigration status.
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SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS LEADS BI-PARTISAN EFFORT TO DEFUND SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN
[Middle East News]
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, on Saudi war in Yemen: “U.S. logistical support, spare-parts transfers and intelligence sharing for the Saudi dictatorship’s airstrikes make us complicit in this nightmare. By passing our bill earlier this year, the House and Senate have spoken: America’s involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war is unconstitutional and must end immediately.”
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