YOU WONT BELIEVE: Brookings - What They Never Told You

Ballot rejections soar in rural counties

Delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast

Salon · Oct 24

How a close look at the American Dream turned a top happiness expert into a specialist in despair: 'It’s harder to be poor in a very rich country'

Brookings’ Carol Graham has spent decades measuring outcomes. Here's how her study of happiness led to work on despair — and what hope has to do with it.

Fortune · Oct 24

32,000 Jobs Gone. Most Lost by American Workers. Minnesota's ICE Surge Tells the Real Story

A new report links nearly 4,000 ICE arrests to 32,000 lost jobs in Minnesota — with 25,000 of those losses falling on U.S.-born workers.

Latin Times · Oct 12

Latino Businesses Are Booming. Getting Loans Just Got Harder In 2026 As SBA Rules, Cautious Banks Limit Credit

Latino businesses get 12.5% of SBA loans but only 8.3% of the money. Why banks are cautious, what SBA's new rule changed, and who's filling the gap.

Latin Times · Sep 17

US, China security experts propose nuclear-style safeguards for AI risks

The experts, part of a US-China dialogue whose work helps inform official discussions, are urging both governments to prepare for such scenarios amid rising concerns about increasingly powerful and more autonomous systems.

The Economic Times · Sep 17

‘What happens if we do die?’: Congress still stalled on continuity plan after 9/11

Brian Baird has spent a lot of time thinking about death over the last 25 years.  Not just his own, but also his former House colleagues’.  Making his way through the Longworth House Office Building on 9/11 and urging people to evacuate after seeing smoke rising from the Pentagon out…

Roll Call · Sep 9

How Much Is ICE Costing the U.S. Economy? LA Put a Dollar Figure on Immigration Enforcement Raids

LA County spent months quantifying ICE enforcement's economic toll. Houston and Chicago haven't — but the scattered data tells its own story.

Latin Times · Aug 9

How Second Chance Month Went From Proclamation to Policy

Second Chance Month began as an April designation. Here's what it has actually produced in law, hiring policy, and record clearing across the U.S.

inkl · Aug 6

Elon Musk's $40 Trillion AI Debt 'Cure' Faces Reality Check In Brutal Brookings Report

Elon Musk insists AI will rescue the US from its £31tn debt burden, but experts at the Brookings Institution warn that technology alone cannot bridge the fiscal gap.

International Business Times UK · Jul 3

AI could wipe $2.2 trillion off the national debt, but there's a catch

A new Brookings/Fed paper finds AI productivity could meaningfully shrink the U.S. deficit — until you count the side effects, which could erase more than half the savings before Washington even cashes the check.

Fortune · Jul 2