Americans distrusted US democracy long before Trump's Russia problem White House special counsel Robert Mueller recently issued 12 indictments alleging that Russian intelligence agents sought to tilt the vote in Donald Trump’s favor by hacking prominent Democrats during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. The Trump-Russia investigation has exposed flaws in the American democratic system – so much so that, according to many pundits, people now doubt not just the legitimacy of the Trump administration but the very foundations of the country’s political institutions. According to a July 2018 Brown University opinion poll, only 16 percent of Americans truly believe their vote matters. Just 4 percent think the government listens to their opinion. News of Russia’s meddling may have inflamed anti-government sentiment, but skepticism about U.S. democracy is not a new phenomenon. I am part of a team of scholars from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County that studies American popular support for democracy over time. Measuring trust in government
Law - The Public Library of Law Réseau d’avocats et huissiers de justice - Eurojuris.fr QWES by Jared Bernstein Low overall unemployment rates persisted through the third quarter of 2000, and the tight labor market has meant continuing gains for less-advantaged workers. Nevertheless, there are some signs that recent Federal Reserve interest rate hikes have slowed the economy. For example, both gross domestic product and productivity rates grew considerably more slowly in the third quarter of 2000 than in previous quarters, and the growth of payroll employment has also slowed in recent months. If the tight labor market begins to loosen, then these effects may show up first among less-advantaged workers. In fact, there is some early evidence that gains made by low-wage minority workers may be slowing in comparison to recent quarters. The first row of Table 1 shows that the quarterly unemployment rate has edged downward from 4.2% one year ago to 4.0% in the third quarter of this year, the lowest level for this indicator since the fourth quarter of 1969. EDITOR Joseph Procopio
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From the Pentagon Papers to Trump: How the government gained the upper hand against leakers In October 1969, a national security official named Daniel Ellsberg began secretly photocopying 7,000 classified Vietnam War documents. He had become increasingly frustrated with the systematic deception of top U.S. leaders who sought to publicly escalate a war that, privately, they knew was unwinnable. In March 1971 he leaked the documents – what would became known as the Pentagon Papers – to a New York Times reporter. In the decades since, the Pentagon Papers helped shape legal and ethical standards for journalistic truth-telling on matters of top secret government affairs in the United States. That balance of power is taking on a renewed significance today. Political lies exposed The Pentagon Papers helped Americans realize that government officials didn’t have qualms lying about policy. “They made people understand that presidents lie all the time, not just occasionally, but all the time. The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers in June 1971. An unspoken bargain
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UNdata Congress.gov - Congress Legislatiive activity [before July 2016, Thomas] How Roe v. Wade changed the lives of American women The recent announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement has ignited widespread speculation about the future of Roe v. Wade. Some analysts believe that a new appointment to the Supreme Court would mean a conservative justice, particularly one who is against abortion rights, will threaten the status of the law. The U.S. Supreme Court granted women an essential degree of reproductive freedom on on Jan. 22, 1973, by supporting the right to terminate a pregnancy under specific conditions. As a sociologist who studies women, work and families, I’ve closely examined how the landmark ruling affected women’s educational and occupational opportunities over the past 45 years. Then and now Let’s go back to 1970, three years before the Roe decision. In that year, the average age at first marriage for women in the U.S. was just under 21. Childbearing was still closely tied to marriage. By 1980, the average age at marriage had increased to 22. Today, roughly two generations after Roe v.
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