Minister’s comments recirculate after leader of far-right League party announces ‘census’ of Roma community

By Tom Embury-Dennis @ Independent.co.uk, June 21, with video @ link

A United Nations report condemning entrenched poverty in the United States is a “misleading and politically motivated” document about “the wealthiest and freest country in the world,” according to the Trump administration's ambassador to the world body.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley criticized the report for critiquing the United States' treatment of its poor, arguing that the United Nations should instead focus on poverty in developing countries such as Burundi and Congo. The U.N. report also faulted the Trump administration for pursuing policies it said would exacerbate U.S. poverty.

By Stefan Wojcik & Michael Barthel @ PewResearch.org

Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, much attention has been focused on the role of bots in promoting political news on Twitter. But bots can play a role in spreading many other types of news and information as well.

Jason Johnson over the Root poses an interesting question. What would have happened if Trump had ordered the kidnapping of white babies? Would Democrats have been as mild as they have been while brown babies were kidnapped? Johnson feels Democrats would have been shouting from the rooftops and attempting to shut down government if white babies were kidnapped. He believes that Democrats lack the necessary hate required to truly challenge Trump. If they hated Trump, they would have pulled out all stops to block him from kidnapping babies. Johnson feels that Democratic that Democratic leadership is more comfortable with accepting white supremacy than they are with fighting for Brown babies.

By Reid Wilson @ TheHill.com, June 21

The number of non-Hispanic white people in the United States decreased for the first time in the nation’s history between 2015 and 2016, according to new figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The data show the nation’s white population is aging rapidly, as Americans delay their decision to have a family and as the flow of foreign immigrants from European countries ebbs. At the same time, minority populations are growing much faster, hastening a demographic shift that has been decades in the making [....]

By Erica Pandey @ Axios.com, June 20

The rise of automation is hurting middle-skills jobs — those that require some training beyond a high school degree but not a bachelor's degree.