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Even so, homelessness in Raman’s district dropped by 49% this year, and the candidate says that if elected she aims to deliver those same results citywide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
The lawmaker, elected in 2019, grew up in a modest family in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, where his mother cleaned homes and his father collected bus fares for a living.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
My new study of elected prosecutors, published in the Journal of Public Economics, provides evidence of exactly that.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
El-Sayed, a former public health official who would become the Senate’s first Muslim member if elected, has repeatedly denied any affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood and rejected attacks on his faith and patriotism.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
As Calvinists, the Pilgrims and the Puritans thought, although they could never be certain, that they were among the elected few their god had chosen for salvation.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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