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Trump has to do little to keep his climate promises

Nov 10, 2016
He's promised to roll back the fight against global warming and unleash coal, oil and natural gas.
Protesters rally about climate change outside the White House in Washington, DC on November 29, 2015. 
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What immigration reform means to small businesses

Nov 10, 2016
How will Donald Trump's decisions on immigration reform affect small businesses?
A worker harvests cantaloupes on a farm near Firebaugh, California. 

 
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Who wants a job?

Nov 10, 2016
Today, we're reading the exit poll demographic tea leaves as President-Elect Donald Trump turns to filling out his administration and cabinet.
President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump following a meeting in the Oval Office November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Trump is scheduled to meet with members of the Republican leadership in Congress later today on Capitol Hill.
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Stocks in private prisons are way, way up

Nov 10, 2016
Stocks in private prison corporations soared with the news of Donald Trump’s win. The country’s largest, Corrections Corporation of America, shot up almost 45 percent Wednesday. The companies that run private prisons are actually in the real estate business, and their business boomed in the 1990s and early 2000s with the exponential growth in mass […]
A view of the Eloy Detention Facility, which is operated by the Corrections Corporation of America.
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Economic data is good. But many aren't feeling it.

Nov 9, 2016
And that's a big reason Donald Trump won the White House.
Supporters listen to Donald Trump speak at a rally at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, during a campaign stop.
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A pollster's take on a divided America

Nov 9, 2016
A guide to the exit poll data from Edison Research President Larry Rosin
 People enter a polling place at a high school in McLean, Virginia during the US presidential election on November 8, 2016.
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What Rust Belt voters expect from Donald Trump

Nov 9, 2016
The jobs their candidate promised ... but how?
Supporters pledge allegiance to the flag before Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in October at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
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