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Don't regret anything: Meloni stands by efforts to woo Trump amid feud

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Don't regret anything: Meloni stands by efforts to woo Trump amid feud

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Amid weeks of public sparring over Iran, personal insults and social media posts, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday said she had "no regrets" about trying to build a close relationship with US President Donald Trump. Speaking after the NATO summit in Ankara on Wednesday, Meloni defended her efforts to build ties with Trump, saying her approach had always been guided by Italy's national interests and her belief in a united West rather than personal politics. Asked whether she regretted trying to cultivate a close relationship with Trump, Meloni paused, drank a full glass of water and replied firmly: "No, I absolutely don't regret anything I've done." "I don't regret anything I've done. I made a political investment out of conviction in the unity of the West; I championed it across the board. It’s not a strategy I put in place with the arrival of Donald Trump. I did it with all my counterparts, all the interlocutors I’ve faced," she added. Meloni was once viewed as Trump's ones of the closest political ally in Europe. She was the only European head of government to attend his inauguration and had often been described as a bridge between Washington and European capitals. Instead, she stressed that despite their recent differences, she still believed they shared common ground on several policy issues. "Clearly, with Donald Trump there were affinities, there are affinities on some policy issues, from immigration to woke culture, so obviously I thought it could be simpler," she said.

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BJP has destroyed the MGNREGA scheme: TNCC president Manickam Tagore

Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription Published - July 09, 2026 02:37 am IST - CHENNAI Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president B. Manickam Tagore on Wednesday criticised Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagendran for raking up The National Herald case while continuing to support BJP-led Central government’s moves to “destroy” Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by changing the Centre-State financial ratio and the Mekedatu dam issue despite Tamil Nadu Congress strongly opposing the move by the Congress government in Karnataka. In a statement, Mr. Tagore said that Mr. He further said, “It is amusing that Nainar Nagendran, who heads BJP that has been completely rejected by the people of Tamil Nadu and has failed to establish any foothold in the State, has the audacity to mock the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee’s stand on the Mekedatu issue. The people of Tamil Nadu are watching this and laughing. “Everyone knows that whether Karnataka is ruled by the Congress or the BJP, Tamil Nadu’s voice on the Cauvery water dispute has never been given due consideration. The people of Tamil Nadu have not forgotten that Yediyurappa even came up to the Tamil Nadu border to stage a protest demanding the construction of the Mekedatu Dam,” the Congress leader said.

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Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it’s not just people giving up

Economists have spent the past week arguing about why 720,000 people walked away from the labor force in a single month. There are two reasons why you might not add jobs in a month: One is there’s no demand for workers, the other is there is demand, but there’s not enough supply.” Ullrich co-authored a May report from Indeed Hiring Lab , “The Great Mismatch: How a Shrinking Workforce, AI, and Labor Reallocation Will Define the Next 15 Years,” projecting the labor force would begin shrinking in 2026. The finding was particularly driven by a combination of immigration policy changes and what Ullrich calls “the demographic cliff”—the accelerating retirement of the baby boomer generation. The report estimates the labor force will decline by roughly 3.7%, or 5.9 million workers, between 2025 and 2032, before partially recovering. Around the same time, then-Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters the economy was seeing “very, very low, nonexistent, really” growth in the labor force. “I was like, okay, I think we are here with the demographic changes and the share of baby boomers that are leaving the workforce.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own 10-year projections already point to declining participation, Ullrich said, and those projections predate the current immigration restrictions. “I think when their estimates come out this next year, they’ll be even more severe declines, because immigrant workers are both younger than native-born workers, but also have higher labor force participation rates.” Ullrich also pointed to BLS data comparing labor force participation between foreign-born and native-born workers, showing foreign-born individuals have a participation rate of 66.3%, compared with 61.6% for native-born workers. But the pattern flips among women: Native-born women have higher participation rates than immigrant women, particularly immigrant women with young children, who are less likely to work than their native-born counterparts. Age compounds the effect: Roughly 70.1% of foreign-born individuals are between 25 and 54, considered the “prime-age” years, as compared with 62.7% of native-born Americans. “If immigration declines, you have two impacts that are related: Immigrant workers tend to be younger than native-born workers, so by definition you get an older workforce, and labor force participation rates, even within the same age groups, are higher, especially for foreign-born men,” Ullrich said. AI is accelerating a mismatch in which the available workers aren’t lining up with where the job openings are. Low-wage, high-demand fields like home health aide work face the starkest supply gap of all, Ullrich said, as demand rises with an aging population but pay hasn’t kept pace: “It’s a mismatch problem. That’s an indirect impact of AI.” Indeed modeled the labor force through 2040 under two scenarios: one in which AI destroys a significant number of jobs, and one in which it augments human labor and creates new ones. “No matter what we did with AI in our model, demographics were the bigger story,” Ullrich said.

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