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U.S. Construction Spending Unexpectedly Sees Further Downside In June
RTTNews
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August 1, 2025
The Commerce Department released a report on Friday unexpectedly showing a continued decrease by U.S. construction spending in the month of June. The report said construction spending fell by 0.4 percent to an annual rate of $2.136 trillion in...
These CA Suburbs Among Safest In U.S. In New Ranking
Patch
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August 2, 2025
CALIFORNIA — Over 225 suburbs are among the 360 safest in the country, according to a new ranking of communities based on low crime and other significant safety criteria families consider when choosing a place to live. The ranking of America’s...
Letter: Join us to fight transphobia in UNCA housing
Mountain Xpress - North Carolina
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August 2, 2025
Trans students in Asheville are under attack. Not from far-right vigilantes, anti-trans grifters or hell-slinging preachers, but from UNC Asheville, which claims to “respect diversity” and “work for inclusion.” On Wednesday, June 11, leaders of...
U.S. private sector adds 104,000 jobs in July, wages up 4.4%
AZ Big Media - Arizona
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August 1, 2025
Private sector employment increased by 104,000 jobs in July 2025 and pay was up 4.4 percent year-over-year according to the July ADP National Employment Report® produced by ADP Research in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab...
U.S. labor market cracks widen as job growth hits stall speed
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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August 1, 2025
REUTERS/MEGAN SMITH/FILE PHOTO People work at a construction site facing shortages of migrant workers due to the pace of immigration-related raids in the region, near Mobile, Ala., on July 14. U.S. employment growth was weaker than expected in...
Higher U.S. tariffs will extend uncertainty for businesses, experts say
CBS News
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President Trump's executive order hiking tariffs on U.S. imports could drive up consumer prices and prolong uncertainty for millions of businesses, trade experts said. Materials issued by the White House on Thursday outline new tariff rates for...
Maybe what Mexico needs is … more Americans? A perspective from our CEO
Mexico News Daily
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August 2, 2025
For those of you already wishing to tune me out based on the title alone, please stick with me and let’s look at some facts and figures that will help to connect the dots on my argument. The foreign-born population of Mexico — and Americans in...
U.S. Sanctions Chinese Oil Terminal Operator Tied to Iranian Sanctions Evasion Scheme
OCCRP
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August 1, 2025
The U.S. has sanctioned a Chinese oil terminal operator that played a central role in an Iranian sanctions evasion network first exposed by investigative journalists in 2020. The sanctions, announced by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign...
Arman Gabay Launches Nationwide Scholarship To Champion Innovation And Technology In Real Estate Development
MENAFN
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August 1, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) Arman GabayArman Gabay Launches Nationwide Scholarship to Champion Innovation and Technology in Real Estate Development Beverly Hills, CA - The Arman Gabaee Real Estate Scholarship is now accepting applications from undergraduate...
Canada’s housing market is in ‘new normal.’ It looks like the ‘old normal’
Global News
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August 2, 2025
With the Bank of Canada holding interest rates again, economists and real estate experts say the housing market’s “new normal” may be looking more and more like the “old normal” from before the COVID-19 pandemic. “What we have now with more supply...
California affordable housing programs are on the chopping block after Supreme Court ruling
Jefferson Public Radio - Oregon
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August 2, 2025
East Palo Alto, like cities across California, has a law on the books that forces developers of new housing projects to foot the bill for the state’s shortage of affordable homes. New residential projects need to set aside a share of the units...
Freedom Plaza’s casino invests in community
New York Daily News
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August 2, 2025
As someone who believes deeply in the power of equal opportunity, inclusive development, and community reinvestment, I am proud to endorse Freedom Plaza — a visionary proposal as part of New York’s downstate casino bid just south of the United...
Caisse buying 49.9% interest in wireless tower operator for $1.26 billion, CPPIB selling U.K. real estate joint venture stake
Benefits Canada
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August 1, 2025
The Caisse brings a combination of telecommunications sector expertise, long-term capital and an active asset management approach to help Terrion, said Emmanuel Jaclot, executive vice-president and head of infrastructure at the Caisse, in the...
Trump Administration’s Threats To Higher Education Bring the U.S. Into a Dystopian World
The Good Men Project - California
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August 1, 2025
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White House Cabinet room looks unrecognizable after Trump's obsessive redecorating
Daily Mail
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August 2, 2025
President Donald Trump has festooned the White House cabinet room with more than a dozen pieces of fine portrait art and antiques – from Qing Dynasty porcelain to a 18th century cup by an English silversmith. It's part of a growing display of...
BIW to build another warship for U.S. Navy
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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August 1, 2025
Bath Iron Works has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract to build another warship. BIW has seven destroyers under construction and says the Navy has exercised an option to add a DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to the competitive multi-year...
More U.S. home sellers are reducing prices than ever. Here's where that's happening the most
Deseret News - Utah
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August 1, 2025
More than 1 in 4 home sellers nationwide dropped their asking prices in June. That’s the biggest share recorded during what typically has been one of the busiest times of the year for home sales, according to data going back to 2018 compiled by...
The aftershocks of L.A.'s summer of ICE will live on
Los Angeles Times
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August 2, 2025
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, parks across the San Fernando Valley filled with families left homeless by the destruction or simply too afraid that an aftershock might pancake their home. An estimated 14,000-20,000 people lived in those...
I Asked ChatGPT What Would Happen if Trump Ended Income Taxes — There’s Good News and Bad News
Yahoo Finance
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No one likes paying taxes. Maybe that’s why President Donald Trump has proposed nixing the income tax altogether in favor of tariffs. Tariffs, he believes, would make us so rich we could all kiss the tax man goodbye — at least the income tax man....
Industy group urges Ford to cancel $140M contract awarded to U.S. firm
CityNews Kitchener
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August 1, 2025
Questions are being raised about a major construction contract tied to Ontario’s largest hospital project after a U.S.-owned company was awarded a $140 million contract. The Trillium Health Partners’ new 2.8-million-square-foot Peter Gilgan...