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China Did Not Fulfill Trade Promises, Report Says
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A farmer preparing to harvest his corn crop in Iowa. President Donald J. Trump sold the trade deal with China as a boon for American farmers and manufacturers.Credit.Kia Johnson/Reuters
China has fallen far short of its promise to buy hundreds of billions of dollars in American products as part of an initial trade deal it reached with the United States last January, according to data released on Thursday, creating another Trump-era challenge for the Biden administration to confront.
The New Yorker’s union employees did not go to work on Thursday.
The more than 100 employees represented by The New Yorker Union, which includes fact checkers, web producers and some other editorial employees, decided on the daylong walkout after recent rounds of negotiations with management failed, said Natalie Meade, the union chair.
The issue is pay. Ms. Meade, who is a fact checker at the magazine, said the union wanted to raise the salary minimum to $65,000. In the recent negotiations, managers at The New Yorker did not hit that number, she said, instead offering wage increases that she called “insulting.”
Journalism enters rehab
“All of the misinformation disseminated by elected leaders and alt-right news organizations will need to be purged from our consciousness.”
The events of this year the coronavirus pandemic, national protests against police brutality, the presidential election tested the resolve of every journalist that I know. Everyone worked overtime to deliver the latest developments about COVID-19 as scientists gleaned new information about its virology and how it’s contracted.
Unfortunately, some elected officials complicated matters, politicizing the response to a deadly virus. In turn, they confused and disoriented their constituencies when, for example, a mayor, governor, and president are all on different wavelengths.