Digest: The way ahead

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Stay informed. Get the facts. Here's some recommended reading that's easy to share. Climate Change Obama hails 'historic' ratification of Paris climate agreement The Washington Post // Juliet Eilperin The European Parliament voted Tuesday by a wide margin to join the agreement, taking the participation level past the threshold required for the treaty to take effect. Ratification by at least 55 countries representing 55 percent of global emissions was needed for the agreement to enter into force. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Climate Change Over 190 Countries Adopt Plan to Offset Air Travel Emissions The New York Times // Henry Fountain The accord adds an exclamation point to a week in which enough countries signed onto the broader Paris climate deal to ensure that it will enter into force later this year. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Health Care So you think Obamacare is a disaster? Here's how California is proving you wrong The Los Angeles Times // Noam N. Levey The state has recorded some of the nation's most dramatic gains in health coverage since 2013 while building a competitive insurance marketplace that offers consumers enhanced protections from high medical bills. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Help sustain this movement This movement is powered by small-dollar donations from organizers across the country--help keep it going. Chip in Health Care Obamacare Isn't 'Crazy,' and It's Not Dying New York Magazine // Jonathan Chait Seven reasons to stop freaking out about Obamacare. Read full article... Tweet this Share this The Supreme Court Republican Obstruction Is Undermining The Supreme Court, Enough Is Enough The Huffington Post // Barack Obama Leader McConnell argues that with an election looming, the Supreme Court should remain short staffed, and he certainly knows his way around DC. But the last time a Supreme Court seat was kept vacant through Election Day was in 1864. At the height of the Civil War. So, this isn't about precedent. This is about the obstruction of a broken Republican-led Congress. Read full article... Tweet this Share this The Supreme Court Editorial: A Crippled Supreme Court's New Term The New York Times // Editorial Board This is entirely contrary to the workings of a constitutional government, and it is inflicting damage on the court and the country. But the Senate Republicans care nothing about that as they continue their unprecedented stonewalling of Judge Garland's nomination in the hopes of preserving the court's conservative majority. Read full article... Tweet this Share this The Economy Economy created 156,000 jobs in September Politico // Marianne LeVine The jobs report followed news from the Commerce Department last week that GDP increased 1.4 percent during the second quarter of 2016. That was higher than two previous second-quarter estimates of 1.2 percent and 1.1 percent, and also higher than the 0.8 percent that GDP grew in the first quarter of 2016. Read full article... Tweet this Share this In Other News U.N. atomic agency chief says Iran sticking to nuclear deal Reuters // Michel Rose and Richard Balmforth Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told French daily Le Monde. Read full article... Tweet this Share this In Other News The way ahead The Economist // Barack Obama Over the past 25 years, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has fallen from nearly 40% to under 10%. Last year, American households enjoyed the largest income gains on record and the poverty rate fell faster than at any point since the 1960s. Wages have risen faster in real terms during this business cycle than in any since the 1970s. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Your friends need the facts too. Forward this email to them, and they can sign up for the next Digest right here: Sign me up

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