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America's Hiring Map Has Flipped Since 2020
America's Hiring Map Has Flipped Since 2020
America’s hiring recovery has split into sharply different regional stories since 2020.
Some states, including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas, continue seeing elevated hiring demand years after the pandemic. Others, particularly across parts of the West Coast and Mountain West, have experienced steep declines in job openings.
The map below, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows how job openings changed in every state between February 2020 and January 2026, based on data from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The contrast is especially striking in the Mountain West....
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Federal Appeals Court Rules Sex Offenders Have Constitutional Right To Live With Their Children
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Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
A federal appeals court ruled July 6 that convicted sex offenders retain a fundamental constitutional right to live with their own children.
The new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit arises out of an Alabama case but could help reshape strict sex offender residency laws in the other two states in the circuit—Florida and Georgia—and serve as persuasive authority elsewhere.
At the heart of the case...
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