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Home mortgage rates are posted outside a real estate office in Los Angeles after the Federal Reserve interest rates announcement on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a half-point cut to its benchmark interest rate in the first rate cut since the early days of the COVID pandemic.

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Lindsey Harmon, president of Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, said putting abortion on the ballot in a swing state helps candidates “develop sophisticated, well-educated platforms.” (Courtesy of Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom)

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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) moderates a panel Sept. 12 at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s legislative conference on addressing gun violence. Panelists from left to right are Roger Mitchell, Armani White, Maciah King-Brooks, Mariah Cooley and Angela Ferrell-Zabala. (Photo by William J. Ford/Maryland Matters)

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Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Alabama), who serves as the foundation's board chair, said the Black Caucus membership has grown from 13 to the current 60 members in Congress. (Photo by William J. Ford/Maryland Matters)

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Porchá Perry demonstrates with other workers in Lansing, Michigan, in favor of bills restoring local control to pass workforce and labor policies on Sept.13, 2023. A new report finds growing union organizing across the country has triggered an anti-labor legislative response in some states, but cities and counties are increasingly pushing back. (Photo courtesy of SEIU Local 1)

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Doctors are dealing with 'moral distress' as they try to determine care for pregnant patients in states with abortion ban, particularly those facing medical emergencies, according to the Care Post Roe study led by Dr. Daniel Grossman at the University of California San Francisco. (Kieferpix/Getty Images)

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Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights field staff member Carlos Ortiz delivered boxes of petitions to the secretary of state’s office in Columbus on July 5, 2023. Advocates behind abortion initiatives often look to votes in Kansas and Ohio as harbingers of success. (Graham Stokes/Ohio Capital Journal)

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Chris Love, spokesperson for the Arizona for Abortion Access campaign, spoke at an April 17 news conference in Phoenix. In an interview, Love said a history of miscarriages and an abortion as a teenager led her to advocate for reproductive rights. (Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)

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Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz celebrates with his daughter Hope, son Gus and wife Gwen at Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, Aug. 21, in Chicago. The Walzes clarified this week that they didn’t use IVF but another kind of fertility treatment to grow their family. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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In this photo illustration, a credit card is used to pay for gasoline on Feb. 07, 2024, in San Anselmo, California. Equifax credit files through June show that credit card delinquency is still rising. Americans’ total credit card balances are at $1.14 trillion, up 5.8% compared to a year ago, according to a recent report from the New York Fed. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Hadley Duvall, a sexual assault survivor, speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Monday, Aug. 19, in Chicago. She appeared alongside reproductive rights advocates from states with post-Roe abortion restrictions. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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A sign advertising units for rent is displayed outside of a Manhattan building on April 11, 2024. The Biden administration and the Harris campaign are making their housing policy case to the American people as Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump compete for voters’ trust on economic issues. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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