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21 Oct

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WATCH: @lisahopeking and @russcontreras examine the barriers to achieving socioeconomic mobility that persist today, feat. @iamwesmoore and @domesticworkers Executive Director @aijenpoo.

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@lisahopeking @RussContreras @iamwesmoore @domesticworkers @aijenpoo .@iamwesmoore On economic inequality: "Now what we saw from COVID was not just simply an exacerbation of these inequities. It was also an exposure."

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@lisahopeking @RussContreras @iamwesmoore @domesticworkers @aijenpoo .@aijenpoo: "It's been a crisis of impossible choices for domestic workers, we're talking about 2.2 million mostly women, majority women of color, who work inside of our homes. They work in isolated conditions and earn poverty wages without access to a safety net."

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20 Oct

@StefWKight

WATCH: Axios politics reporter @StefWKight explores the status of bipartisan immigration reform and refugee resettlement policy, feat. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair @SenatorMenendez, @welcomeus co-founder @cecmunoz and CEO @NazaninSAsh.

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@StefWKight @SenatorMenendez @welcomeus @cecmunoz @NazaninSAsh .@SenatorMenendez: "I truly believe that reconciliation is the only pathway...toward some type of status for undocumented immigrants in the country...without reconciliation and without Republican support in a evenly divided Senate, I don't see how that pathway would be possible."

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@StefWKight @SenatorMenendez @welcomeus @cecmunoz @NazaninSAsh .@SenatorMenendez: "I have taken a very clear position that a refugee is a refugee and you need to give them the opportunity to make their case under our asylum laws. It should not differentiate between an Afghan or a Haitian."

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19 Oct

@sarakgoo

WATCH: Axios editor-in-chief @sarakgoo and chief technology correspondent @inafried examine inequities in the tech industry, feat. @GirlsWhoCode CEO @DrTarikaBarrett and @TECollab's @cbracy.

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@sarakgoo @inafried @GirlsWhoCode @DrTarikaBarrett @TECollab @cbracy .@DrTarikaBarrett: "We are simultaneously addressing this growing gender gap in tech and trying to prepare our girls and young women...we also know that it's within an industry that continues to sometimes be the source of negative news and troubling instances of discrimination."

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@sarakgoo @inafried @GirlsWhoCode @DrTarikaBarrett @TECollab @cbracy .@cbracy: "At the same time, we're also seeing that tech platforms and business models are impacting how people are experiencing the economy everywhere, whether that's through workforce and labor practices, or the emerging venture-backed housing sector."

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18 Oct

1/ Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state, died today. Here's a look at his life in photos.👇

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2/ Powell became the first Black national security adviser under President Reagan.

Pictured in Nov. 1987, he addresses the press from the Rose Garden with outgoing Defense Secretary Weinberger, Reagan and incoming Defense Secretary Carlucci.

📸: Diana Walker/Getty

3/ Powell also became the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the H.W. Bush admin.

Seen next to Defense Sec. Cheney in Dec. '89, he briefs reporters about the military operation to oust Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega.

📸 : Bob Pearson/AFP via Getty

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16 Oct

💻📱🎮 RACE AND TECHNOLOGY IN AMERICA (🧵)

The technology industry is famously determined to change the world — but its efforts to diversify its workforce and remove bias from its products haven't changed nearly enough.
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The tech industry likes to cast its failure to diversify as a "pipeline problem" — one that would vanish if only more such people studied tech skills and entered the field.

But fixing the pipeline won't solve tech's race problem.
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The hard truth is that filling up the pipeline won't help, as long as employees keep quitting their jobs, being forced out or leaving the industry.

Critics say these work environments are rife with harassment and discrimination.
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15 Oct

@margarettalev

WATCH: Axios managing editor for politics @margarettalev and future correspondent @bryanrwalsh discuss how advanced technologies are revolutionizing the military landscape, feat. @SenMarkKelly (D-Ariz.) and @PalantirTech's @DougPhilippone.

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@margarettalev @bryanrwalsh @SenMarkKelly @PalantirTech @DougPhilippone .@SenMarkKelly on using innovative technologies in the military: "I think you should think about this of us taking science, research, innovation, and bringing it to the warfighter, to the marine, to the airmen, the sailor and the soldier so we can maintain that superiority."

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@margarettalev @bryanrwalsh @SenMarkKelly @PalantirTech @DougPhilippone .@SenMarkKelly on considering the ethical risks of using AI in warfare: "I think in general, we want to keep the person in the loop to try to avoid the mistakes. When we're making life and death situations, I don't think we want to turn that over to artificial intelligence."

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