Migrants and Refugees Face an Invisible Trauma We Can’t Ignore

In the wake of multiple legal challenges, the Biden Administration late last month aimed to fortify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with a new rule that would shield more than 600,000 undocumented people brought to the U.S. by their parents. While proponents of the program welcomed the move and heralded it an “effort to bulletproof the DACA program,” our response in this moment overlooks a fundamental problem: each challenge on immigration—whether the Muslim Ban, family separation, or challenging DACA—takes a toll on refugee and migrants through vicarious trauma and weathering, regardless of the outcome.

While we debate annual refugee caps, if Title 42 should be repealed and whether to welcome Haitian and Afghan refugees, each day…

Dennis Tito Aims to Go to the Moon—in His 80s

Few people had heard of aerospace engineer and financial analyst Dennis Tito before 2001. That was the year Tito, then 60, became the first paying space tourist, cutting a $20 million check to Russia to fly aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and spend a week aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Since then, Tito has remained Earthbound, but has never quite shaken the adventuring bug. Now, he is planning to return to space—this time traveling to the moon, a route nobody but the Apollo astronauts have ever flown.

As SpaceNews, CNN, and others report, Tito, now 82, and his wife Akiko, have both inked a deal to travel on a one-week journey aboard SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, along with up to 10 other paying passengers. They will be flying a path that will take them around …

Michael Regan Wants to Advance Environmental Justice

Michael Regan loves a good photo op. The EPA administrator spent much of his first two years in office crisscrossing the country, attracting a phalanx of local reporters wherever he turned up. But instead of welcoming veterans home or cutting the ribbon on bright and shiny bridges, the sites of Regan’s press junkets have included a community plagued by coal ash in Puerto Rico, a Louisiana area in the shadows of ­petrochemical facilities where residents face high cancer rates, and a West Virginia county with a faulty wastewater-treatment plant.

On a blistering summer day in 2022, I watched as he brought the cameras to a trailer home in the back roads of Lowndes County, Alabama, where more than 40% of residents have raw sewage on their properties. On rainy days, which are increas…

Asian emerging markets spent big in Europe’s retail cities in Q4 2018

The company said that Q4 saw increased travel and international spending with European retailers as consumers got more for their money due to the continuous strengthening of currencies across the APAC region.And it highlighted the importance of Vietnam’s emerging middle class, as that country rose to second-highest on the Index’s list of international retail spenders per transaction, after Hong Kong in first place.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

THE BIG PICTUREPlanet’s report came out at the same time as the latest Bain Chinese luxury report indicated that European retailers are going to have to get used to Chinese high-end consumers spending more of their money in their…

CollectPlus in industry-first ‘social send’ service

Marketplace sales have exploded in recent years and have been key for both sales of second hand fashion goods and for small entrepreneurs building fledgling fashion businesses.The new CollectPlus Social Send is an app-based offer with a name that makes the most of consumers’ social media obsessions.

But it’s not a new social media conceptคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Instead it allows parcels to be sent when the sender only has the recipient’s email address or phone humberคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. It also means that purchasers can keep their address detail pr…

Clothiers bet on ‘cooling’ fabrics as global temperatures rise

Other major companies, including VF Corp and Permira-owned Reformation, are also touting warm-weather styles made with Tencel, a lyocell fiber that textile manufacturer Lenzing says is more absorbent than cotton.The push comes as clothing retailers, whose sales dipped as inflation-weary consumers prioritized essentials over discretionary purchases, amp up their marketing of “cooling” garments as heat waves batter at least three continents.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

Apparel manufacturers and sellers are banking on lightweight materials and performance fabrics aimed at offering more relief than traditional cotton and polyester knits, as well as high-tech fibers they say offer wear…

Foreign credit card firms hit JV obstacle in China push

The push to get foreign card issuers to enter into equity tie-ups with Chinese companies, instead of running fully-owned units, comes ahead of Trump’s visit to China this week, and could further delay access to China’s rapidly-growing market for foreign card companies like MasterCard and Visa.The Trump administration has been a fierce critic of what it sees as China’s mercantilist policies. In September, Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. Trade Representative, criticized China for forcing companies into joint ventures.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

Trump also called the U.S. trade deficit with China “horrible” ahead of a trip to Asia that started Friday and includes visits …

H&M launches new sustainable packaging

The company is currently diving deep into digital and said the fact that e-commerce is increasing worldwide is driving large amounts of plastic waste, so there’s “an increased need to find new solutions for more sustainable packaging”.Much of the packaging used to fulfil online deliveries is plastic-based and the majority of it ends up in landfill sites or, even worse, the oceans.

The company said: “In the fashion industry, plastic is one of the biggest challenges. It is not only used in synthetic materials such as polyester, but also in hangers, hang tags, single-use shopping bags and polybags. When it comes to packaging, plastic is partly used to protect some products and prevent waste, which makes it even more challenging to replaceคำพูดจาก…

European MEPs call for rules to curb textile workers’ exploitation

The report sought rules from the European Union (EU) Commission so that all players in the textile and clothing industry supply chain respect the labour and human rights of their workers. It also adds that the EU should lead by example and purchase their textiles from sustainable and fair producers.The Socialists and Democrats (S&D) are at the forefront of the fight against unsustainable work in order to avoid further tragedies such as the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh.

“National initiatives like the German Partnership for Sustainable Textiles are a good and important base for a European initiative. The Commission must present an EU-wide regulation because trade does not only concern national markets. Trade policy is European policy,” said S&D MEP Arne Lietz.”The …

Indian cosmetics face doubled import duty, prices could rise

The past year has seen the beauty industry boom in India, especially online. However, with the new government budget’s higher tax rates, some fear a dampener could be put on thisคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. The Minister of Finance, Arun Jaitley, has proposed an increase in customs duty as well as the introduction of a ten percent welfare surcharge on basic customs duty.Many makeup products will be affected by these new rates including perfumes, hair dyes, and manicure and pedicure productsคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Health and wellness products such as sunscreens will also…