Immigrants Keep an Iowa Meatpacking Town Alive and Growing
*The irony of this story is that the town that’s highlighted, Storm Lake, is in staunch anti-immigrant Rep. Steve King’s district. It’s where he was born. VL NewsTaco MONEY WEDNESDAY […]
A Proposed New Tax, Mainly On Latinos, To Pay For Trump’s Border Wall
*This happened yesterday, while the rest of us were mesmerized by the Peckinpahesque implosion of the Trump administration, congress was moving a piece of legislation that would fund the Trumpian […]
Home builders can’t find enough workers
*It’s become harder for undocumented construction workers to find jobs, so now it’s taking longer for homes to be built, and it’s getting more expensive because of Trump’s tariffs on […]
Trump administration sends NAFTA renegotiation letter to Congress
The interesting thing about this has nothing to do with international trade or U.S. relations with Mexico. It’s that even though Trump said he was willing to renegotiate NAFTA, now […]