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https://apnews.com/e87ad38befdc4a58b0778286404ee826
Aug. 9, 2018
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies’ brains.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to remove chlorpyrifos from sale in the United States within 60 days.
A coalition of farmworkers and environmental groups sued last year after then-EPA chief Scott Pruitt reversed an Obama-era effort to ban chlorpyrifos, which is widely sprayed on citrus fruit, apples and other crops. The attorneys general for several states joined the case against EPA, including California, New York and Massachusetts.


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/workers-see-their-paychecks-get-smaller-as-inflation-continues-to-rise.htmlhttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/workers-see-their-paychecks-get-smaller-as-inflation-continues-to-rise.html
Aug. 10, 2018
While the rest of the economy pointed higher in July, American workers took a step backwards.
Hourly and weekly earnings languished when factoring in the rise in cost of living, according to figures the Labor Department released Friday.
Average weekly earnings actually decreased 0.2 percent over the one-month period and increased only fractionally from the same period a year ago. Average hourly earnings were unchanged over the month and actually two cents lower than July 2017.
The readings came during a month that saw core inflation rise at its fastest pace since September 2008. The Consumer Price Index increased 0.2 percent month over month for an annual gain of 2.4 percent, up one-tenth of a percentage point from June and driven primarily by a jump in rental costs.
The decline puts real wages at their worst level since October 2012.


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/pfan-iul080718.php
Public Release: 8-Aug-2018
Immigrants use little health care, subsidize care of non-immigrants: Harvard/Tufts study
New study finds that immigrants pay more money into both private and public health insurance programs than they take out
Physicians for a National Health Program