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People pray in front of a row bouquets placed out for vic- tims of the torched Kyoto Animation building in Kyoto, Japan, July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

KYOTO, Japan (Reuters) - Many victims of an arson attack on a a university hospital in nearby Osaka. People living near the studio said they saw a man fitting Japanese animation studio were young with bright futures, some Aoba went to the studio on Thursday morning, poured fuel Aoba’s description in a park the day before the attack. joining only in April, the shaken company president said on Sat- around the entrance and shouted “Die” as he set the building Police suspect he may have spent a day or more in the area urday, as the death toll climbed to 34. ablaze, according to NHK. to prepare. People pray for victims of the torched Kyoto Animation He told police he had done it because the studio had plagia- Rui Yamaguchi, who works in a factory nearby, said he saw building in Kyoto, Japan, July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung- rized his novel, Kyodo news reported. Hatta said he had not the suspect when he was detained. Hoon seen any correspondence from the suspect and had no idea “He looked like a mannequin with no hair and blackened. Thursday’s attack on Kyoto Animation, well known for its of the plagiarism claim. One of his pants legs had gone around his calf. It looked television series and movies, was the worst mass killing in two One employee who survived the fire told NHK he did so by like it had burnt off,” he said. decades in a country with one of the world’s lowest crime rates. jumping from the second-floor balcony. Near the blackened studio building, where the It was all the more poignant because of the young age of many of The employee, who was not identified, told the broadcaster smell of burning timber lingered over the neigh- the victims when Japan has one of the world’s oldest populations. there was a loud explosion and a plume of black smoke borhood, animation fans of many nationalities Many of the victims were young women, company president came up through a spiral staircase, filling the second floor joined local residents, queuing up to add to a growing pile Hideaki Hatta said. and making it hard to breathe. As he went to the veranda, he of flowers, drinks and other offerings. “Some of them joined us just in April. And on the eighth of July, heard cries for help. Bing Xie, 25, a Chinese student at Kyoto University, said I gave them a small, but their first, bonus,” he said. “It was a choice of jumping from the second floor and get- she could not forgive the arsonist. Suspected Japan arsonist a reclusive, quarrelsome gamer, neigh- ting injured, or dying,” he told NHK, adding that there were “The young people at Kyoto Animation were beautiful and bor says employees who could not bring themselves to jump. warm and it is hard to accept they are gone.”olice guard- “People who had a promising future lost their lives. I don’t know ‘IT WAS TERRIFYING’ ed the site as investigators, some on the roof near where what to say. Rather than feeling anger, I just don’t have words,” Aoba lived in a small, two-floor apartment building 500 km many died in a connecting stairwell, examined the torched Hatta said. (310 miles) from the western city of Kyoto, Japan’s ancient three-story building. Fifteen of the dead were in their 20s and 11 were in their 30s, capital, on the outskirts of Omiya, a commuter hub north of Tributes to the victims lit up social media, with world eaders public broadcaster NHK said. Six were in their 40s and one was Tokyo. and Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) chief executive offering condo- at least 60. The age of the latest victim, a man who died in hospi- A neighbor said he had a dispute over noise with Aoba just lences. The hashtag #PrayforKyoAni, as the studio is known tal, was not known and names have not yet been disclosed. days before the attack. among fans, has become popular. Authorities on Saturday issued an arrest warrant for 41-year-old “He started yelling at me to my face to shut up. He grabbed Kyoto Animation produces popular “anime” series such as Shinji Aoba on suspicion of arson and murder, NHK said. me by the collar and started pulling my hair. It was terri- the “Sound! Euphonium”. It is also known for “Violet Ever- Police have confirmed Aoba’s identity and said he was previous- fying,” the 27-year-old man who declined to be identified, garden”, which has been shown on Netflix. ly convicted of robbing a shop. They plan to arrest him once he said. recovers from heavy burns, NHK said. He was earlier airlifted to Monday, July 22, 2019 C2 WORLD NEWS Bernie Sanders hires Beto O’Rourke critic as top aide in 2020 race

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie interests. Sanders on Tuesday said he is hiring a well- Sanders’ campaign did not respond to a re- known liberal journalist with a history of sharply quest for comment on Sirota’s hiring. criticizing other Democratic presidential candi- Sirota worked for Sanders as a press secretary dates, including Beto O’Rourke. when Sanders was a member of the House of Sanders’ campaign said it is bringing in David Representatives in the early 2000s. Sirota, whose work has appeared in The Guard- Sen. Warren tests 2020 message in deep South ian and Newsweek, among other outlets, as a An article Sirota wrote in 2013 for the liberal senior adviser and speechwriter. news website Salon praising the economic re- cord of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s late socialist The move could stoke tensions within the Dem- president, also attracted criticism on social ocratic field since Sirota has previously targeted media from Sanders’ Democratic Party critics O’Rourke, a former U.S. congressman from Texas and conservatives alike. who entered the presidential race last week, and Sanders recently refused to label Venezuela’s other rivals. current president, Nicolas Maduro, a dicta- tor or recognize the opposition leader, Juan Sirota on Twitter and in published articles has ac- Guaido, as the country’s rightful leader - the cused O’Rourke of siding with President Donald current U.S. position. Trump and Republicans while a member of the House of Representatives, as well as being overly Guaido invoked the constitution to assume the friendly with the oil and gas industry. interim presidency in January, saying Madu- ro’s re-election was not legitimate. FILE PHOTO: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during an event to introduce the “Medicare Sirota’s criticism of O’Rourke in December drew for All Act of 2017\ a warning from Neera Tanden, a top ally of for- mer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and president of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank. “A supporter of Bernie Sanders attacking a Dem- ocrat,” Tanden tweeted. “This is seriously danger- O’Rourke said while campaigning ous. We know Trump is in the White House and in Iowa last week that he supported attacking Dems is doing Trump’s bidding.” Guaido’s claim on Venezuela’s presi- The conflict was a reminder of the bad blood be- dency. tween the Clinton and Sanders camps when they battled for the Democratic nomination ahead of the 2016 presidential race and the mistrust between the party’s moderate and progressive wings. Sirota also has slammed presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris, as well as former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, for being overly cozy with corporate Monday, July 22 2019 C3 Editor’s Choice

Children play as community members gather in a park to discuss gang vio- lence in Manenberg township, Cape Town People pray for victims of the torched Kyoto Animation building in Kyoto, Japan, July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

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And here’s another, less-talk- “We are responding to low wages, but white gains in the labor market as the expansion ed about statistic: people aren’t,” Spriggs told Axios. continues. The share of the employed black population “There is some truth to the fact that if it’s But pay hasn’t picked up much. Wage is converging closer to whites than it’s been difficult to get a job or secure a job in a good growth, which has accelerated in recent since the government began tracking the or bad economy, you’re not going to be ex- months, pales in comparison to previous metric in 1972. tremely overly picky about it,” said Valerie economic expansions. And that doesn’t Wilson, director of the Economic Policy bode well for inflation, which has undershot Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Fed’s 2% target, supporting the argu- the Economy. ment that the Fed should let the economy run a bit hotter for longer. And the unemployment rate for white people is still far lower than the rates for African-Americans, Hispanics and Latinx, Compiled And Edited By John T. Robbins, Southern Daily Editor though the gap has been shrinking. The Fed’s next listening session will be July Job prospects are finally rising for people 16 in Atlanta, weeks before the FOMC con- of color in the U.S, a development with big venes on July 30 for a highly-anticipated implications for 2020 political races. meeting that may result in the first interest African-Americans, Hispanics, Latinx and rate cut since 2008. (Courtesy axios.com) others left behind are finally starting to reap Historically, joblessness disappears faster Related rewards from the economic boom. And in for whites, so the length of the economic Black People Are Returning Faster Now a major shift, the Federal Reserve is lis- recovery — the second-longest in history Into The Workforce tening to people who say the central bank Poor people and people of color tend to be — is also key. should use its policies to help sustain the “the first ones into the recession and the last The population we’re talking about is record-long expansionthat’s still in the early ones out,” Rachel Flum, executive director non-institutionalized, but if it did include Onique Morris, who is also black, accepted stages for low-income communities of col- of the Economic Progress Institute, tells people in prison, the percentages might be a teaching position at New York-based P.S. or. Axios. even closer, since the rate of black people in 79 without shopping around for a better sal- June’s hiring surge calmed fears that the One of the people who talked to the Fed prison is falling. ary. “I would have taken it no matter what labor market is rapidly slowing down. But in Chicago about the on-the-ground expe- the pay was,” said Morris, who is studying falling jobless rates haven’t caused the usual rience was Maurice Jones, CEO of Local for a master’s degree in education. upswell in wages, and thus, inflation. Low Initiatives Support Corporation. “For folks Black American unemployment is close unemployment alongside inflation near the in the neighborhood that are disinvested or to historic lows, but remains almost dou- Fed’s target is typically a trigger for the underinvested, the prolonged low unem- ble that of white unemployment, which central bank to raise interest rates, but this ployment is what gives them a chance to is at 3.3%. Still, black people are locking dynamic hasn’t occurred. get jobs,” Jones tells Axios. “What we’re down more jobs or at least feeling confident In an unprecedented series of events called getting now is businesses that are coming enough to try. (Courtesy axios.com) Jobless black people are taking full-time “Fed Listens,” Chairman Jerome Powell to us” because companies need employees. work at a higher rate than unemployed and colleagues are hearing from communi- The labor force participation rate for Afri- whites, amid a more favorable economy for ty leaders who say their residents were hit can-Americans — which counts both peo- a population whose prospects have histori- hardest by the recession. ple with jobs and those who are actively cally been dimmer than for other races. They’re being told that economic growth looking for work — has been catching up to This dynamic — the convergence of the The data, reflected in the chart above, sug- needs to continue so that people in impover- the labor force participation rate for whites white and black employment-to-population gest a greater willingness by jobless black ished neighborhoods can see the same ben- at a rapid pace, reflecting optimism about ratios — is occurring despite wages not people to accept relatively low wages, while efits as wealthy whites. prospects for employment. growing as much as they could be, said Wil-

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