Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — America mourns — again

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Open in app View in browser   Presented By JPMorgan Chase & Co.   Axios AM By Mike Allen ·Mar 23, 2021 Hello, Tuesday. Smart Brevity™ count: 945 words ... < 4 minutes. 🚨 Axios Latino, a collaboration with Noticias Telemundo, launches Thursday. Sign up here to keep tabs on stories that affect the U.S. Latino community on both sides of the border. 💉 Please join Sam Baker and Bryan Walsh tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. ET for an Axios Virtual Event on COVID testing, with Dr. Michael Osterholm and more. Sign up here.     1 big thing: America mourns again A human moment near the scene of the mass shooting. Photo: Hart Van Denberg/Colorado Public Radio via AP   Columbine. Aurora. And now Boulder. Colorado, which has endured some of America's most notorious mass shootings, now is the scene of the nation's second massacre in 7 days. The killing of 10 people at the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder — including the first police officer to arrive on the scene, Eric Talley, a father of seven — joins last week's rampage in Atlanta on an agonizing roster of inexplicable American tragedies. The context: The pandemic year of 2020 had the smallest number of mass killings in more than a decade, according to an AP database. 2021 has already seen an awful reversal of that anomaly. The Atlanta killings, which left eight dead, brought urgent new attention to the yearlong wave of violence against Asian Americans. The slaughter in Boulder renewed debate on gun control, which wasn't at the top of the agenda of the Democrats who rule Washington. Colorado State Senate Majority Leader Stephen Fenberg (D) told Brian Williams on MSNBC: "We have had a horrific year as a country, as a world. It had finally started to feel like things are getting back to 'normal.' And, unfortunately, we are reminded that that includes mass shootings." In a preview of the renewed debate, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) — who lives near Sandy Hook Elementary School, site of the 2012 killing of 20 children — tweeted: "This is the moment to make our stand. NOW." The latest: An injured suspect is being held. A handcuffed man, wearing only underwear and with a bloody leg, was led from the market. Police wouldn't say if he's the suspect. Read more from Axios Denver.     2. How to get rich on $1,000 Data: FactSet. Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios Today is one year from the stock market's pandemic low — a year in which investors more than recouped the stunning losses when COVID erupted, Axios chief financial correspondent Felix Salmon writes. Why it matters: Never before has the market swung so swiftly from extreme pessimism to extreme optimism. Over the past year, the S&P 500 has moved from being at a three-year low, to rallying by an astonishing 76% and hitting new all-time highs. Stocks have never risen so much in 12 months. The previous record was a 61% rise ending in June 1983. The riskier the asset, the higher the return: Bitcoin has soared by almost 800% over the past year, with Tesla stock not far behind. Keep reading.     3. Axios-Ipsos poll: America reemerges Data: Axios/Ipsos Poll. Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios With each shot in the arm, more and more of us are letting down our guards, Axios managing editor Margaret Talev writes from a new installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index. Nine in 10 respondents said they know someone who's already been vaccinated, and 36% said they've been vaccinated themselves. But it's the unvaccinated who are returning to activities outside the home at the highest rates. 52% of unvaccinated Americans reported seeing friends and relatives outside the home in the past week, compared with just 41% of those who'd been vaccinated. Keep reading.     A message from JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan Chase supports inclusive career pathways     JPMorgan Chase's efforts help strengthen the pipeline to college and create inclusive pathways to careers. Their approach: Advancing policy solutions. Mentoring and support. Upskilling employees. Investing in community partners. Raising firmwide minimum wage.     4. Immigration coverage spikes Reproduced from Signal AI. Chart: Axios Visuals 📡 Sign up here for Sara Fischer's weekly Axios Media Trends, out later today.     5. How U.S.-China tensions can fuel anti-Asian racism Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios   Inflammatory rhetoric about China can exacerbate the sense that Asian Americans are "racialized outsiders," Russell Jeung, co-founder of the advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate, tells Axios' Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and Shawna Chen. The U.S.-China relationship is at its lowest point in decades. Tensions between the two countries are reflected in U.S. policies and leaders' rhetoric that at times conflate Chinese people with China's government and can fuel anti-Asian racism in the U.S. "U.S.-China relations and our foreign policy translates into Asian American racial policy in the U.S.," Jeung says. Keep reading.     6. Social media's great clean-up Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios   Social media giants have scrambled to clear misinformation from their platforms, but those efforts aren't likely to appease furious lawmakers in both parties, Axios' Margaret Harding McGill writes. When they testify virtually before House lawmakers on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will argue they're doing what they can to stem misinformation and extremism online. But those policy changes haven't always equaled results. Keep reading.     7. Lockdown's silver lining for workers with disabilities Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios   All sorts of hurdles — like getting to work if you're in a wheelchair or adjusting to office environments if you're a person with autism — are eliminated by remote work, Axios' Erica Pandey writes. When remote work took off during the pandemic, a lot of these barriers melted away. Case in point: Kristen Parisi, a writer in New York who uses a wheelchair, has always wanted a remote job so she can focus on her work and not worry about her commute. But "working from home was looked at as a privilege, and none of the really desirable jobs were remote," she says. Now Parisi has a remote job. Keep reading.     8. This flag has 51 stars Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images   This flag, with an extra star for D.C., flew in Black Lives Matter Plaza next to the White House yesterday as Democrats launched a fresh push for statehood for the nation's capital. Why it matters: Democratic rule at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue gives statehood for D.C., and Puerto Rico, the greatest chance ever. Mayor Muriel Bowser argued during a four-hour House Oversight Committee hearing that D.C.'s lack of representation in Congress is "one of the remaining glaring civil rights issues of our time," AP reports.     9. How a political boss could help NASA Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios   Having a politician atop NASA signals the agency will be a priority for the Biden administration, Axios Space author Miriam Kramer reports. The nomination of former Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, who has President Biden's ear, was a departure from the former astronauts, scientists and business people who have typically led NASA. Keep reading.     10. The race to replace Rush Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios   The late Rush Limbaugh is being replaced in his time slot, for now, by ... Rush. Premiere Networks, an arm of iHeartMedia that syndicates Limbaugh's show to 600 stations, said yesterday that it'll continue airing a series of guest hosts who play archival clips of Limbaugh. Sources tell Axios' Sara Fischer that the network is under pressure from advertisers to continue airing Limbaugh's content. "No one can replace Rush Limbaugh," Premiere spokesperson Rachel Nelson told AP. But plenty are trying, including Dana Loesch, Dan Bongino and Erick Erickson. Keep reading.     A message from JPMorgan Chase & Co. How to connect people to well-paid, sustainable jobs     JPMorgan Chase is helping expand economic opportunity by supporting efforts that develop inclusive educational pathways that provide people access to: Higher education. High-value credentials. Real-world work experiences. Learn about their efforts.   📬 Thanks for starting your day with us. Please invite your friends to sign up for Axios AM/PM.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. 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