DACA

Xunami Muse and Geneva Karr are making history on Season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The two queens — Muse, who’s Panamanian, and Karr, who’s Mexican — are the first two queens to compete on the show while living with DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. “It’s a reality that is often overlooked,” Muse tells Rolling Stone. “Growing up there was this pressure of being a model citizen, and well guess what? We are these model citizens. All I want to do is spread my joy and do my drag and make people laugh…

Colorado workers who need to take time off from work to care for a new baby or family member — or to deal with their own serious health condition — can now receive pay for that time away from their job. But there are limitations on both the length of paid time available and how much is paid under the state’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance program, known as FAMLI. Colorado voters created the program in 2020 when Proposition 118 passed with nearly 58% support. Employers and employees began paying into the program last…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from the University of Delaware refutes a long-held talking point: the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy does not seem to have a negative impact on jobs or income. Emily Battaglia, an assistant professor of economics at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and…

WASHINGTON, D.C. —  Tawheeda Wahabzada was tired of hoping she would ever have a permanent place in the country that had been home for nearly her entire life. So in February 2020, after hosting a “self-deportation party” where she said goodbye to her friends and family, she left the U.S.Wahabzada, 32, moved to Toronto, where she was born to Afghan refugee parents before they joined extended family in Nevada, where she grew up.She thought starting over would be exciting, that she’d be busy making new friends, exploring…