GLP-1 medications generate large weight loss and may also alter social and economic outcomes. Using the Understanding America Study, I compare women starting GLP-1s for weight loss with matched women who would like to start a GLP-1 but have not. Single women’s marriage/cohabitation rates rise by 29 percentage points and employment among baseline non-employed women rises 27 percentage points after six or more quarters. Existing partnerships do not dissolve, and already-employed women show no upward job mobility. The pattern suggests that part of the female obesity penalty operates at new-match formation rather than only through health or incumbent productivity.
The death toll climbed to 67 and at least 70 migrants were arrested as Spain’s military began installing a 1,600-foot floating barrier off the coast of Ceuta Saturday in an effort to stem hordes of migrantsfrom Morocco.
An estimated 50,000 migrants flooded into the tiny Spanish enclave in North Africa during the crisis that began Thursday, overwhelming authorities.
Some of the migrants drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, while others were killed in a deadly crush at a border checkpoint — prompting Spain to declare a national emergency and mobilize law enforcement authorities to send thousands back across the border.
The Navy installed a pneumatic barrier between Tarajal Beach in Ceuta and Morocco that contained a line of secured buoys with a surface height of 30 to 70 centimeters.
Spanish National Police agents confront Moroccan migrants on a beach in Ceuta on SaturdayREUTERS
“We are not back to normal because there are several thousand people who must be returned, and a climate of unease and concern still prevails.”
At least one Moroccan national was arrested Saturday after he allegedly stabbed another migrant during a Friday street brawl in front of a Ceuta school, according to El Faro de Ceuta newspaper.
Footage recorded by a bystander showed the migrant jabbing at his victim and then appearing to strike him near the shoulder area.
Clashes were also reported between Moroccan security forces and throngs of migrants who wanted to flood into the city of Melilla, located east of Ceuta.
Antena 3 television reported that Moroccan authorities had taken at least 70 people into custody since the migrants flooded into Ceuta on Thursday.
President Trump seized on the images from Ceuta during a Cabinet meeting at Camp David Friday — calling it “an invasion” and warning Americans ahead of November’s midterm elections.
“That same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected — except worse,” the president said, while blaming Spain’s border crisis on “weak law, bad management” and liberal migration policies.
A socialist pol who is a shoo-in to represent part of Queens in the state Assembly whipped out his tin cup to beg the public to help pay his personal bills while he waits out the November elections, The Post has learned.
Brian Romero — a former legislative aide hoping to succeed his ex-boss Jessica González-Rojas, who is headed to the State Senate — is already confronting his first self-inflicted budget crisis. The problem isn’t that the rent is too damn high — it’s that he doesn’t have a job to pay it.
He set up a GoFundMe campaign to help pay the bills.
State Assembly candidate Brian Romero says he can’t pay the rent and set up a GoFundMe seeking contributions while he awaits the November elections, where he is unopposed.GoFundMe
Romero said he had to give up his most recent post as a senior advisor to state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez (D-Queens) in March due to state ethics guidance he received during the campaign.
He won 66% of the vote and easily defeated local activist Rosa Sanchez in June’s Democratic primary.
The Republican Party didn’t field a candidate, giving him a clear path to Albany, where he’ll represent the deep blue 34th District, which includes parts of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.
But a politician who will have a say in how Albany spends billions in taxpayer money publicly pleading poverty is not a good look, critics said.
Romero said he saved for “months” but is now broke and can’t make the rent.
Romero pleaded poverty and said he hasn’t been able to get access to any unemployment funds. He says he saved for “months.”GoFundMe
Just last year, he was pulling down $106,469 as a legislative aide.
He lives in a $2,600 a month apartment in Jackson Heights with his partner.
His LinkedIn page, which declared Romero “Open to Work,” spelled out his current predicament – and linked to a GoFundMe page that went up Thursday and was titled “Help Brian Cover Rent After State Assembly Run.”
Romero is a shoe-in for a Queens district near Mayor Mamdani’s legislative stomping ground.brianr4ny/Instagram
“As many of you know, I had to leave my full time job in the legislature when I got on the ballot for our Assembly race,” he pleaded in the since-deleted post. “I’m excited that we won and I saved for months to get by but I’ve now depleted my savings as I’m close to closing down some consulting gigs.”
His GoFundMe site said early Friday he had raised $1,095 out of $2,000 being sought. The first $50 donation was anonymous, which wouldn’t be allowed for campaign contributions. The largest anonymous contribution was for $200.
The online appeal got contributions from people who knew him and “anonymous” donors, but Romero says he closed it and didn’t take any of the money.Brian Romero/Gofundme
He said the online solicitation was “to help navigate this next chapter” and will be used to “cover the rest of rent and groceries.”
“The support from friends, colleagues, and community members so far has been overwhelming, and we are deeply grateful,” the pol added.
But he abruptly closed down the online fundraiser Friday afternoon, after The Post started making inquiries.
By Friday morning contributions had swelled to more than $1,000.Brian Romero/Gofundme
“I decided to take it down. It was kind of done pretty quickly in consultation with some friends,” he told the newspaper.
He called it a “mistake” and said he didn’t keep any of the money.
Romero said he tried but failed to navigate an unemployment insurance system he calls “broken” and says it makes him “very passionate” about addressing that issue.
The former legislative staffer, who last year made $106,469, said friends offered to help tide him over.brianr4ny/Instagram
“I’m trying to find sort of some gigs, but I don’t know how other folks do it,” he said.
It wouldn’t have been the first time he’s gotten housing assistance.
“I’ve always been a renter. I lived in NYCHA [public housing] for about almost 15 years, actually” before moving to a private apartment building,” he told EpicCenterNYC in June.
“I can’t remember seeing something like this happen before,” said Jordan Libowitz, vice president for communications of Citizens for Ethics in Washington.
Once sworn in, Romero will pull down a handsome $142,000 annual salary, along with a $203 daily per diem when the Assembly is in session.
And he’s not likely to be homeless any time soon – thanks to the kindness of people he actually knows.
“I have friends I just reached out to directly who said, ‘We’ll take care of it.’ They’re just dear friends who know me, they know politics. They know sometimes these long breaks are really tough,” he said.
