Wednesday, April 10, 2024
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA |
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Republican officials know by now that supporting strict abortion bans is politically toxic. That knowledge is at times altering what they say, but not how they vote.
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Elected Republicans in Arizona rushed to do damage control after the state Supreme Court upheld a ban on almost all abortions from 1864, and some assured voters that they knew the 160-year-old ban was not appropriate for today. Democratic lawmakers in the state immediately tried to push through bills that would repeal the draconian ban, but that’s where the Republican resistance to the law ended.
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This week, the Arizona Supreme Court decided to uphold an 1864 law banning almost all abortions, deteriorating 160 years of progress for women's rights in the state. Tomorrow, Hysteria will be covering the detrimental blow to reproductive rights and breaking down all the repercussions of the decision. To stay up to date on the news around abortion that'll probably make you want to scream into the void, tune into Hysteria, wherever you get your podcasts. |
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The U.S. government has reported generally cooling inflation for much of the past year. But on Wednesday, a new report showed that the consumer price index rose 3.5 percent in March, more than expected. Driving the increase were rising energy and housing costs. This pushes the first expected interest rate cut to September, according to projections from CME Group. The CPI report stings President Biden, who was hoping to cite cooling inflation and falling interest rates in his reelection campaign. Biden inherited the out-of-control inflation from his predecessor, who signed the 2017 tax cut for the wealthy and corporations and ushered in one of the greatest upward transfers of wealth (from the bottom and middle to the top) in modern American history.
The White House and the Federal Reserve pulled off something of a miracle by steering the economy to avoid a recession under truly dire conditions. Polls show that, increasingly, Americans acknowledge that corporate greed is behind much of today’s stubborn inflation, but Biden knows that voter understanding only goes so far, and Americans are looking for answers for their still-too-high monthly bills. In a statement on Wednesday, he said that prices are “still too high for housing and groceries, even as prices for key household items, like milk and eggs, are lower than a year ago.” Biden distinguished himself from his presidential opponents by noting that his administration has a plan to deal with inflation, specifically “to lower costs for housing — by building and renovating more than two million homes — and I’m calling on corporations, including grocery retailers, to use record profits to reduce prices.” Biden continued that Republicans “just want to cut taxes for the wealthy and raise taxes for other people, and so I think they have no plan.” |
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