Overall, economic sentiment for Trump is poor, but small businesses seem fairly confident, according to several surveys There are 34m small businesses in the United States. They employ approximately half of the country’s workers and generate about half of the country’s GDP. They’re an important voting block.
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Farmers who backed Trump for a decade turn two weeks before Republicans must defend Congress.the receipts: 10 stories
The installment already cleared, and the comparison already ran: Social Security's 2027 raise landed a tenth of a point behind the inflation it was meant to track. That gap, as of this week, has a name attached to it in five separate places.
On October 5th, the first name came from a Reuters/Ipsos poll putting approval at thirty-two percent, a record low, with Latino voters cited specifically as part of the drop from 2024 support levels. On September 23rd, before that number ran, The Hill had already clocked a softer version of the same erosion in rural counties: support chipping away as living costs rose. By October 9th the University of Michigan's own sentiment index read 46.3, the second-lowest reading the survey has recorded, down from 48.1 the month before.
This week the index got a map. …
Rep. María Elvira Salazar filmed an ad warning the president that he's "gone too far" on immigration. It reflected concern among some Republicans that their gains with Latino voters could be at risk.
Consumer sentiment fell to the second-lowest reading on record for October, leaving Republicans little time to reverse a major liability in terms of voters’ negative perceptions of the economy before the midterm elections. Consumer sentiment fell to 46.3, down from 48.1 in September, according to a preliminary reading of the University…
Due to high fuel and housing costs, and wages that aren't keeping pace with inflation, consumer sentiment is lower than at almost any other time in modern history. CBS News spoke with Michiganders to find out how the economy is playing on the minds of voters.
Due to high fuel and housing costs, and wages that aren't keeping pace with inflation, consumer sentiment is lower than at almost any other time in modern history. With the 2026 midterm elections just weeks away, CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes traveled to Michigan to find out how the economy is playing on the minds…
Weeks ahead of Election Day, 71% of U.S. adults think the country is on the “wrong track.”
Farmers and ranchers have supported President Trump for a decade. But the war in Iran, tariffs and other administration policies have soured some on the G.O.P.
French police report 855, then 1,200, then 1,800 arrests for one riot; Trump blames immigrants.the receipts: 9 stories
The filing starts, as these things do, with a building.
It moved on fast. By October 8th, Jean-Luc Mélenchon was calling the movement "the Bastille has been retaken" — generous, since the Bastille is a monument and this was a student strike over school funding — while a separate dispatch the same week clocked the protests spreading to Spain, Belgium and Chile. On the ground that day, students at a Paris high school dragged trash bins into position to build a barricade; police moved in afterward with tear gas. The arrest count by then stood at more than 6,600 since late September — the receipt doesn't say whose tally that is, French national police or something narrower, which is itself worth writing down.
Ten days later, the ledger reopens on the weekend of October 17th into the 18th, and five news desks file it five different ways. …
President Donald Trump on Sunday urged France to secure its borders to “people with hatred in their hearts” as protests throughout the country rage, with police arresting approximately 1,800 people in the violent demonstrations. “France is burning!”
Authorities said masked agitators set fires and attacked public buildings in several cities during protests about the cost of living and poor conditions in schools.
Paris police have arrested 855 people after violent clashes during a protest against rising living costs
Authorities said masked groups on Saturday set fires and attacked public buildings, including city halls, in several cities.
A major cleanup is underway in France after demonstrations involving more than half a million people protesting rising costs and poor conditions in the country’s schools turned chaotic. Officials say 1,200 people were arrested after violent clashes in Paris and other cities throughout France.
The threadNewsom endorses the measure that cancels the billionaire tax he let California's voters decide on his own5 stories, read together
Proposition 40 asks California voters, on November 3, to impose a one-time, 5 percent tax on the wealth of billionaire residents, with proceeds earmarked for health care, education and food assistance. In August, two campaign groups formed to stop it — Building a Better California and Californians Against Wasteful Spending and Higher Taxes — launched an advertising blitz. The money behind the ads traces to Google co-founder Sergey Brin and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, two of the state's richest residents, the kind of resident the tax is written to reach.
The ads kept running into September, when six Nobel Prize-winning economists, including Joseph Stiglitz, a former chief economist of the World Bank, signed an open letter backing the measure. The letter called it what could be the first billionaire wealth tax approved by American voters, if they approve it this November — a conditional the campaign against the tax did not wait around to see resolved.
On October 1 came a defection from the other side of the ledger. …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ramped up his opposition to a proposed tax on the state's billionaire residents on Friday by endorsing a competing ballot measure that would both cancel out the billionaire wealth tax initiative and prohibit any new taxes on the ownership of financial assets or other personal property. "He’s showing…
The 39-year-old French-American Berkeley professor is campaigning to have voters approve, in a November 3 referendum, a measure that would temporarily impose a 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires living in the state. Some of his colleagues consider that his activism has begun to overshadow his scientific approach.