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• What YOU Pay for Deportations

  This from MSNow (link below):

  By Ja’han Jones

  $2,358 per person.

  It’s a number that shows the impacts of President Donald Trump’s destructive economic agenda and bigoted anti-immigrant agenda in stark relief.

  According to a new tool launched by the Economic Policy Institute, that’s the whopping amount American taxpayers are shelling out on average to fund Trump’s mass deportation push.

  Daily Kos | August 10, 2026
• Orange County Schools Face 50-Driver Bus Shortage

  Orange County’s staffing gap mirrors a national trend. A report cited by the Economic Policy Institute found the K-12 school bus driver workforce nationwide contracted by 12% between 2019 and 2023, with retirements and split-shift schedules slowing any recovery. Neighboring districts are feeling identical pressure heading into the new school year: Polk County Public Schools reported needing approximately 70 additional drivers in July to service 50,000 daily riders across 2,600 routes, a shortfall Hoodline previously reported was pushing that district to the brink before the first bell.

  Hoodline | August 10, 2026
• Black Americans are losing ground fast — here’s the data

  Perhaps one of the more sobering findings is that higher education has not served as the financial buffer it once did. Nearly all Black adults, including those with college degrees, saw their financial standing worsen last year. Among Black college-educated adults specifically, the share reporting financial comfort dropped by nearly seven percentage points, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  The gap between Black and white adults on this measure is also widening. While more than three quarters of Black adults said making ends meet was at least a minor concern, that figure rose by eight percentage points in a single year. Among white, non-Hispanic adults surveyed over the same period, that number actually fell.

  Rolling Out Magazine | August 10, 2026
• 10 Shady Things Amazon Doesn’t Want You To Know

  Economic Policy Institute reported in 2025 that Amazon, alongside Starbucks and Trader Joe’s, had engaged in retaliatory actions to stifle organizing efforts. Across the three companies, the report documented tactics such as reducing workers’ hours until they became ineligible for health care coverage and other benefits, closing or threatening to close unionizing locations, and providing raises or other benefits to nonunion employees while denying them to workers who had organized.

  MoneyDigest | August 10, 2026
• Deportations will cost you $2,358 this year, according to a new study.

  The Trump administration’s mass deportation plan will cost each taxpayer $2,358 over the next two and a half years, according to a new estimate from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). In total, the figure reaches $268.9 billion.

  The money comes directly from federal income taxes. The EPI published a calculator on August 5 that breaks down the spending by state, county, and city.

  El Tiempo Latino | August 10, 2026
• Trump deportations cost Pa. taxpayers nearly $2,100 each

  Pennsylvania taxpayers would pay nearly $2,100 each for President Trump’s mass deportation push, per a new calculator from the Economic Policy Institute.

  Axios Pittsburgh | August 10, 2026
• New data: Oregon deportation costs could pay for 9,500 teachers

  With the money being spent by the federal government on mass deportations, Oregon could hire 9,500 teachers or more than 6,000 nurses.

  A new calculator released by the Economic Policy Institute will figure the cost of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign in any state, county or city, along with the equivalent value of various social services. The calculator shows deportations have cost $3 billion in Oregon.

  Gordon Lafer, professor in the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon and research associate at the institute, said it is shocking to see such a high price tag while so many people are struggling to pay for food, housing and health insurance.

  Public News Service | August 10, 2026

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