The Senate election in Missouri is more than a year away, but the candidacy of disgraced former Gov. The GOP candidate is not running ads attacking immigrants, as the last GOP candidate did, but he is running ads about the role of parents in education, which is the new culture war issue of the day. What is interesting is that both parties seem to recognize that the lunch-bucket issues that motivate most working-class white voters are the same issues that motivate most working-class Latino voters: jobs, inflation, schools, crime and transportation. In The Washington Post, a look at the efforts by conservative Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to win over Latino voters in next week's election. Their reflections on the devastation in Puerto Rico after the twin hurricanes of 2017 are moving - and more than moving, they are poignant. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, hosted a discussion about labor, religion, politics and public engagement last week, featuring Eric LeCompte, executive director at Jubilee USA, and Damon Silvers, assistant to the president and special counsel at the AFL-CIO.
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