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[embedded content] [embedded content] [embedded content] [embedded content] Early in the Trump administration, senior officials discussed bringing back a controversial question topic to the census that the federal government has not asked all households about since 1950 — U.S. citizenship status. The policy idea became reality this March, when — against the recommendations of the Census Bureau — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross used his authority over the census and approved plans to add the question,…

From Texas Standard: According to the Department of Labor, it’s 1969 again, meaning unemployment now stands at 3.7 percent, with earnings up over the past year by more than 3 percent. That’s in part because, since March of this year, there have been more jobs than workers every single month. But low unemployment is an issue if you’re hiring staff for the holidays: where do you find the workers, and how do you keep the…

Over the past decade, Republicans have made historic gains on the state level. Heading into the election, they control two-thirds of the governors’ mansions. But this year the GOP is playing defense. In the two years since President Trump’s election, Democrats have found their energy. Party turnout during the primaries was high, and looking forward to the general election, Democrats could pick up more than a dozen gubernatorial seats and have the chance to become…

Jay Reeves, Associated Press Updated 4:18 pm CDT, Thursday, November 1, 2018 Cedric Watson, left, and Jadarrius Hunt strip branches from an oak tree that fell along side Watson’s aunt’s Natchez, Miss., house following a strong storm or possible tornado that hit the city early Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. The men decided rather than wait for a neighbor to bring a chain saw to help cut the 100-year oak, they would begin by hauling off the…

Updated 3:00 pm CDT, Thursday, November 1, 2018 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on storms moving across the Deep South (all times local): 2:50 p.m. Storms moving along the Gulf Coast provided a scare to people living in parts of the Florida Panhandle hit by Hurricane Michael less than a month ago. Disaster centers helping with the recovery from Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle temporarily closed because of the threat, and authorities worried that…