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Iowa’s Employment Problem: Too Many Jobs, Not Enough People

Click here: Iowa can’t find enough trainees for its programs; the Midwest is the only region where job openings outnumber out-of-work job seekers

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Gun Control Fail – London Murders now Exceed New York

Click here: London’s murder rate has overtaken New York City’s. In March, there were 22 murders in London mostly from stabbings. The murder epidemic continued Sunday when a man in his twenties was fatally stabbed after leaving a bar, marking the 12th person to be murdered in London in 19 days.  
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Students at Florida high school stage walkout in support of Second Amendment

Click here: About 75 students at a Central Florida high school walked out of class Friday as part of a protest in support of the Second Amendment. “I’m pro-Second Amendment,” Rockledge junior and protest organizer Anna Delaney. Students carried the American flag and signs that said “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” and “I support the right to bear arms.”
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Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection and Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed

Click here: “We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” Facebook VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth wrote in the memo, “So we connect more people, that can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* good. It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned.”

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Trump Economy Soars. Jobless Claims Decline to Lowest Level Since 1973

Click here: Trump Economy Soars. Jobless Claims Decline to Lowest Level Since 1973

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Will Witt is on location at the March for our Lives Los Angeles to find out what exactly is being protested, and what reforms attendees recommend. Check it out!

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Whistleblower: Facebook Able to Listen to You at Home and Work

Click here: Facebook Able to Listen to You at Home and Work, says Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower
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Blacks in Power Don’t Empower Blacks

Between 1970 and 2012, the number of black elected officials rose from fewer than 1,500 to more than 10,000. How has this affected the black community? Jason Riley of The Manhattan Institute answers the question in this short 5-minute video.

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Actors Cold Read Gun Facts Off of a Teleprompter

Click here: Actors at Casting Call Are Surprised by Real Gun Facts They’re Asked to Read

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Parkland Survivor: Don’t Use My Sister to Push Gun Control

Click here: A survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting is telling his classmates who support gun control to stop using the name of his sister to push their agenda. Patrick Petty’s sister Alaina was in the JROTC and would never have supported the gun control proposals that her classmates are eagerly pushing. Alaina was one of three JROTC students who died during the shooting.