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Trump’s Mexico call: The Art of the Desperate Appeal

August 7, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Transcripts, Trump Leave a comment

As transcripts of Donald Trump’s conversations and interviews continue to roll out [authorized or not], we are getting a behind-the-scenes look at how he

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What Donald Trump doesn’t know about the Mexican farm workers who make his 5-star dinner possible

July 21, 2015 Renee Shur Employment, Food, Immigration, Republicans Leave a comment

Donald Trump’s sneers about Latino rapists, criminals, and druggies coming-to-harm-your-property-and-your-kids have real-life consequences. His all-too-familiar ethnic scapegoating intentionally obscures the truth about a community

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Family grant programs reduce poverty in Brazil, Mexico

January 18, 2011 Madonna Gauding Good government, International One comment

In Brazil, Bolsa Familia, or “family grants,” have caused economic inequality to drop faster than in any other country, according to Tina Rosenberg in

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