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Kitchen, c. 1944–46. (Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death)The kitchen is well equipped and stocked. There’s a stove, a refrigerator full of food, a table with a rolling pin and a bowl, and a sink with Ivory soap. The wall calendar, featuring with a sailing ship, says it’s April 1944. But there’s something else: Every item is miniature, hand-crafted, and a doll lies on the floor, apparently dead, cause unknown.[1]Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) crafted her extraordinary “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”—a series of 1/12-scale dioramas based on real-life criminal investigation cases, to train homicide investigators to “convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.”[2] These dollhouse-sized dioramas of true crimes, created in the first half of the 20th century and still used in forensic training today, helped to revolutionize the emerging field of homicide investigation.John J. Glessner House - WikipediaGlessner Lee’s early life followed a trajectory unsurprising for a girl from a wealthy family in late-19th-century America. The only daughter of John Jacob Glessner, who made his fortune as one of the founders of International Harvester, she was born in Chicago in 1878, and home-schooled along with her brother, George, in the fortress-like Glessner Mansion, designed by renown American architect H.H. Richardson.[3]George would eventually attend Harvard, while she did not, as her parents did not think tertiary education was necessary for women. Glessner Lee aspired to study medicine, but, in 1897, after a grand tour of Europe, she made her societal début, and, a year later, at age nineteen, married Blewett Lee, the law partner of one of her brother’s friends.[4] It was a terrible union and, in 1906, with three children, they separated. Lee fought for a divorce and, in 1914, left for Santa Barbara.[5] Later in life once her children were grown, Glessner Lee radically departed from expectations.Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) - Find A Grave...Once she came into her inheritance In the 1920s, Glessner Lee had the resources to formally support the development of forensics, discovered through her brother’s friend, George Burgess Magrath, the medical examiner for Suffolk County and an instructor in legal medicine at Harvard Medical School.[6] She co-founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1931, when the field of forensics was in its infancy.[7] At the time, there was very little training for investigators, meaning that they often overlooked or mishandled key evidence, or irrevocably tampered with crime scenes. Few had any medical training that would allow them to determine cause of death.In writing about her dioramas in The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Political Science in 1952, Glessner Lee emphasized the importance of keeping an open mind:“… far too often the investigator ‘has a hunch,’ and looks for and finds only the evidence to support it, disregarding any other evidence that may be present. This attitude would be calamitous in investigating an actual case.”[8]In 1943, the New Hampshire State Police commissioned Lee as its first female police captain and educational director. [9] Considered the “mother of forensic science”, Lee would make substantial financial contributions, donating the books that became the Magrath Library of Legal Medicine.[10] Glessner Lee, rather than using her well cultivated domestic skills to throw lavish parties for debutantes, tycoons, and other society types, subverted the notions typically enforced upon a woman of her standing by hosting elaborate dinners for investigators who would share with her, in sometimes gory detail, the intricacies of their profession.[11] And, just like a crime scene investigator, she absorbed the particulars and identified a culprit in many of the cases: a lack of training tools.The Pink Bathroom (How a Chicago Heiress Trained Homicide Detectives With an Unusual Tool: Dollhouses)Glessner Lee created her first diorama in her early 60s (a 1940s magazine article about her was titled “Grandma: Sleuth at Sixty-Nine”). She wrote, without any overstatement,“No effort has been spared to make every detail perfect and complete.”[12]While the Nutshells depicted composites of real cases, featuring homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths, assembled through police reports and court records, Glesser Lee imagined and designed each setting herself.[13] She was both exacting and highly creative in her pursuit of detail—knitting tiny stocking by hand with straight pins, hand-rolling tiny tobacco-filled cigarettes and burning the ends, writing tiny letters with a single-hair paintbrush, and creating working locks for windows and doors.[14] A tiny rocking chair moves when pushed. Very small newspapers have legible headlines in different sizes and fonts, just like a real newspaper.[15]Glessner Lee at work.In 1953, Popular Mechanics dispatched a reporter and photographer to shadow Lee in her workshop. The article described the way postage-stamp-size shingles were:“split with a razor-like tool” and “carefully nailed to a small wall section” to mimic cedar-shake siding on a house, and how a sliding gadget—a kind of miniature vice—was “specially built to hold a bit in place during cutting of a tiny baseboard molding.”[16]Because the purpose of each one was to recreate the scene of a crime that had actually happened, each corpse—from clothing to blood stains to level of decomposition—had to be made precisely.“An effort has been made,” wrote Lee, “to illustrate not only the death that occurred, by the social and financial status of those involved, as well as their frame of mind at the time the death took place.”[17]Case No. 20- "Sitting Room and Woodshed." The only nutshell that ended up in a private collevtion (Tiny Murder Scenes are the Legacy of N.H. Woman Known as 'The Mother of CSI')Glessner Lee chose to set the crime scenes in locations far from her own privileged upbringing: a boarding house, a saloon. For the most part, the victims’ houses suggest they are working-class. Of the 19 dioramas still in existence (it’s believed 20 were built), 11 of the victims are women.[18]Lee completed around two dioramas a year, with the help of a carpenter at her Rose Estate, starting in the early 1940s.[19] The dioramas were then used in seminars, to train investigators in the art of evidence gathering, meticulous documentation, and keen observation. Students were given about 90 minutes to study two models, and then present their findings, after which, the true details of each diorama were explained.[20] Glessner Lee threw in some curve balls. Not every one represents a homicide, and one particularly knotty case involves a brain hemorrhage.[21]Frances Glessner Lee, Parsonage Parlor, about 1946-48. (Murder Is Her Hobby Opens at the Renwick)But Glessner Lee was adamant that the dioramas were not simply puzzles to be solved.“It must be understood, these models are not ‘whodunnits’—they cannot be solved merely by looking at them. They are intended to be an exercise in observing, interpreting, evaluating, and reporting—there is no ‘solution’ to be determined.”[22]According to Kimberlee Moran, Director of Forensics at Rutgers University, both the level of detail and the form are fundamental to teaching necessary skills.[23] With dioramas fortunately you can’t move things around and mess things up like you could at an actual scene or a staged scene, so they’re teaching documentation skills, critical thinking, problem solving, and observation.[24]Despite her scientific intentions and criminal justice motivation, there is no doubt that Glessner Lee also showed creative talent. She didn’t think of herself as an artist, probably largely because her main concern was that the dioramas be taken seriously as scientific tools.[25] But that doesn’t negate the art in them, or that, in fact, the origin of her ingenious solution was her background in feminine crafts.Three Room Dwelling 1944–1946 (19 Grim Dollhouses Tell the Story of the 'Mother of Forensics' | The Vale Magazine)Insight into Glessner Lee's private life is possible from two models- Three Room Dwelling, the only multiple homicide, and Attic. The first, unlike the other Nutshell Studies, depicts a young, seemingly happy family, in a neat, well-appointed middle-class home surrounded by a little white fence, with toys strewn about the porch.[26] The Attic diorama shows an older woman who appears to have hanged herself.[27] From the mess around the room, evidence suggests she may have become despondent from loneliness. Old letters are strewn about the room and dusty, antiquated objects fill the space, sort of metaphorically suggesting she herself may have felt antiquated and no longer of any use to anybody.[28]The Attic (Frances Glessner Lee; Rick Araluce - Sculpture)The young, idealized family, of the Three Room Dwelling, reflects the love, hope and excitement of being newly married and creating a family. The Attic reflects the experience of domestic ‘bliss’ ending in divorce, despite the fact that Glessner Lee s was only finally free to pursue what she loved when she reached her mid-60s.In 2017-2018, the Smithsonian Institute exhibited all twenty of the Nutshells for the first and only time. The link below provides access into the minute crime universe that Glessner Lee created.Inside the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" - 360 VRThe Living Room(The Tiny, Murderous World Of Frances Glessner Lee)Footnotes[1] How a Gilded Age Heiress Became the 'Mother of Forensic Science' [2] Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death[3] John J. Glessner House - Wikipedia[4] Blewett Harrison Lee - Wikipedia[5] The Woman Who Invented Forensics Training with Doll Houses[6] George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine[7] George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine[8] The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science[9] 75 Years Ago, Frances Glessner Lee Appointed State Police Captain — Glessner House [10] Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death[11] Negotiating Domesticity[12] The Grim Crime-Scene Dollhouses Made by the ‘Mother of Forensics’[13] How a Chicago Heiress Trained Homicide Detectives With an Unusual Tool: Dollhouses [14] The Grim Crime-Scene Dollhouses Made by the ‘Mother of Forensics’[15] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTMqLHJRQdU[16] These Grisly Dollhouse Crime Scenes From The 1930s & '40s Are Still Helping To Train Investigators[17] Murder She Crafted[18] http://Case No. 20" and described as "Sitting Room and Woodshed."[19] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/these-miniature-murder-scenes-have-shown-detectives-how-to-study-homicides-for-70-years/2017/09/13/6037b9c4-812a-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html[20] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319515606_Corpus_Delicti_Frances_Glessner_Lee_and_the_Art_of_Suspicion&ved=2ahUKEwip94a_yLfsAhW_B50JHYrsDToQFjAOegQIDRAB&usg=AOvVaw3SpAtcv8hURe6C-hJ-ol04[21] Heiress Plotted 19 Grisly Crimes. Investigation Underway. (Published 2018)[22] Murder She Crafted[23] Dollhouse diorama crime scenes[24] The Woman Who Invented Forensics Training with Doll Houses[25] Home Is Where the Corpse Is—At Least In These Dollhouse Crime Scenes[26] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.rippercast.com/mp3/In_a_Nutshell.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjfpsG1zLfsAhUuAZ0JHZwwB-gQFjANegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw0WqfwmYQ3x9ELjlAl-jPXT[27] Frances Glessner Lee, Attic (detail), about 1946-48. Collection of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, courtesy of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Baltimore, MD. Photograph by Susan Marks, Courtesy of Murder in a Nutshell documentary[28] Frances Glessner Lee; Rick Araluce - Sculpture

We keep reading & hearing a lot of views and news about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi & whether he’s doing a good job at the helm or not.I decided to go find out the facts by myself through a objective & systematic approach, without any hidden rhetoric or agenda.Here it is for your consumption. YOU DECIDE !!!I thought the best way to judge a country’s state is to make a COMPLETELY & ABSOLUTELY UNBIASED objective omparison of ECONOMIC iINDICATORS before NaMo became the PM of India after he took over the position.Objective indicatorsEarnings (GDP) has INCREASED :D - India GDP | 1960-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar | Forecast | NewsSpend (budget) has INCREASED :D- how much is being spent and on what - India Government Spending | 2004-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar | ForecastGovernment Revenues have INCREASED :D- India Government Revenues | 1997-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar | ForecastInflation has REDUCED :D- India Inflation Rate | 2012-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar | ForecastFood Inflation has REDUCED :D- India Food Inflation | 2012-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar | ForecastFDI has INCREASED :) - India Foreign Direct Investment | 1995-2017 | Data | Chart | CalendarForex Reserves have INCREASED :D-India Foreign Exchange Reserves | 1998-2017 | Data | Chart | CalendarInterest Rate has REDUCED :D - India Interest Rate | 2000-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar | Forecast | NewsCorruption Rank has REDUCED :D-India Corruption Rank | 1995-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar | ForecastEase of doing business Ranking is the BEST EVER :D - Ease of Doing Business in India | 2008-2017 | Data | Chart | CalendarDemonitization & Black moneyMay 2014 - formation of SIT to fight black money & corruption which was delayed by congress for over 4 years despite honorable Supreme Court’s order - SIT formed to unearth black money – Narendra Modi Cabinet's first decision - Times of India.Feb 2015 - online auction of coal bloccks started by the government after honorable Supreme court cancels all the coal block allocations made by UPA - Coal block auctions in India see aggressive bidding.May 2016 - India and Mauritius sign bilateral treaty to check the black money laundered through Mauritius which accounted for almost 35% of the black money investment in India - India, Mauritius amend tax treaty, capital gains to come under tax net.Sep 2016 -all the major contries agree to wage a war on money laundering, black money and terror funding on the call of PM Narendra Modi- PM Narendra Modi asks G20 leaders to eliminate safe havens for economic offendersNov 2016 - Benami (Transactions) act amended and notified after 18 yeats. The previous governments had not notified the benami act because of which they were not in effect - Benami Property Act to be effective from Nov 1 - The Economic Times8-Nov-2016 - Demonetization of INR 500 & INR 1000 notes. This broke the backbone of counterfeit currency (India’s Fight Against Fake Currency), terror funding (How demonetisation, new currency notes will hit terror funding and counterfeiting - Times of India), naxalism (You Will be Shocked to Know What Has Happened to Naxals and Maoists After Demonetization of Old Notes!, Demonetisation to hit Maoist activities in Chhattisgarh: Police), human trafficking (India currency note ban sparks ‘dramatic fall’ in sex trafficking) and black money used to fund these.Nov 2016 - Switzerland signs treat with India to give Swiss bank a/c’s from Sep 2018 - Black money: India to get Swiss bank a/c data from Sept 2018 onwardsDec 2016 - Rs 65.25k cr declared under voluntary income disclosure from which the Govt of India earned Rs 29k cr in taxes - Rs. 65,250 cr. mopped up via new black money windowDec 2016 - Singapore signs amended tax treaty with India to enable routing of black money through their country - India inks revised tax treaty with Singapore to check round-trippingJan 2017 - 18 lakh people whose deposits do not match tax profile identified - 18 lakh people whose deposits do not match tax profile identified, says Tax DeptFeb 2017 - Curb on political funding - Union Budget 2017: Curbs on political funding not a major electoral reformHealthSwacchh Bharat Abhyan - Well to do urbanites like us will not understand this but open defecation in rural India poses a profound threat to the health and survival of children and the productivity of the workforce that they will grow up to become. 72% of rural India defecates in the open. So, it is entirely appropriate that the Prime Minister named the elimination of open defecation by 2019 a flagship goal for his government - Swachh Bharat AbhiyanWomen and child welfare - maternity leave extended to 6 months (26 weeks) in India - Bill allowing 6-month maternity leave passed in RS - Times of IndiaEducation -5 new IIT’s & 6 new IIM’s opened in 2015 - 5 new IITs, 6 IIMs likely to become operational by 2015IIM Bill of 2017 - Cabinet approves IIM Bill 2017 makes IIM’s autonomous. This is the best for institutions of excellence like theIIM’s can set campuses abroad - IIMs can set up campuses abroad now to get statutory status, Javadekar introduces bill in LS - Times of India. This will in turn help to attract talented foreign nationals to these instituitions and in turn better their global ranking say like an INSEAD.EmploymentDigital India - Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India - With the launch of Digital India programme, the government is taking a big step forward to transform the country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy. Includes various schemes worth over Rs 1 lakh crore like Digital Locker, e-eduction, e-health, e-sign and national scholarship portal. BharatNet in 11 states and Next Generation Network (NGN), are also a part of Digital India campaign. The programme includes projects that aim to ensure that government services are available to citizens electronically and people get benefit of the latest information and communication technology. The Ministry of Communications and IT is the nodal agency to implement the programme. Impact of Digital India by 2019 Broadband in 2.5 lakh villages, universal phone connectivity Net Zero Imports by 2020 400,000 Public Internet Access Points Wi-fi in 2.5 lakh schools, all universities; Public wi-fi hotspots for citizens Digital Inclusion: 1.7 Cr trained for IT, Telecom and Electronics Jobs Job creation: Direct 1.7 Cr. and Indirect at least 8.5 Cr. e-Governance & eServices: Across government India to be leader in IT use in services - health, education, banking Digitally empowered citizens - public cloud, internet access - All you need to know about Digital India programme: ExplainedMake in India - Make In India is a new national program designed to transform India into a global manufacturing hub. It contains a raft of proposals designed to urge companies — local and foreign — to invest in India and make the country a manufacturing powerhouse - https://yourstory.com/2014/09/make-in-india-narendra-modi/. One of the biggest successes of the Make in India program is Apple setting up its mobile phone factory in India - Apple plans to make iPhones in Bengaluru from April - Times of IndiaStartup India - Startup India - one of the most important schemes to encourage entrepreneurs, from a policy standpoint. State bank of India was roped to help with the funding - SBI opens first dedicated banking branch for startups. Startups can generate a lot of employment and therefore its being encouraged. There was a time in the 1980’s & 1990’s and 200’0s when graduates belonging to the middle class in India could not think of doing somehting by themselves and that’s why IIT’s & IIM’s got their reputation & craze because that was the easiest way to a good life. Starting a business was the birth right of either politicians or people from rich business families. Its no more right now. Anyone can and does. Welcome to startup IndiaSubjective indicatorsIntegrity and honestyDoes not have children to take over his legacy. This man works for the country.Family lives in obscurity unlike the political families of Congress, DMK in Tamilnadu, JD in Karnakata, TRS in Telangana, Samajwadi Party in UP etc -The other ModisHave not heard of any scams till now except for sultry non issues about Smriti Irani’s education.Relationship with neighborsSurgical strikes in Myanmar ('Surgical strike' inside Myanmar by Army? - Times of India) andSurgical strikes in the LoC (India's Surgical Strike: 4 hours, choppers and 38 kills: How India avenged the Uri attack) - have you heard of anything like this before.Have you. This was a sea change in India projected itself to the world. This had a phenomenal effect on the psyche of the perpetrators. I was never ever SO SO PROUD of being an India.Social standing - Standing in the world communityEvacuation in Yemen - India evacuates 5000 people from Yemen. It really really stuns the world so much so that 26 other countries request India to help out in evacuating their citizens- India leads rescue of foreign nationals, including Americans, trapped in Yemen. Never heard about this in the history of India. Again a proud moment for Indians across the globe. We proved to the world that WE CAN DO ANYTHING WE WISHED FOR.US President Donald Trump calls PM Narendra Modi immediately after he takes over as the President of USA - Narendra Modi: US President Donald Trump to speak with PM Narendra Modi tonight unlike the PM’s in the past who did’nt even get to meet the US President when they went to the USA - President Barack Obama may not meet Prime Minister Manmohan during UNGA sessionOthersConnect with the populationNarendra Modi’s visit to USA - Highlights: Narendra Modi’s speech at Madison SquareNarendra Modi’s visit to Australia http://www.firstpost.com/world/prime-minister-narendra-modi-sydney-1807191.htmlNarendra Modi app - never had a PM been so communicative as PM Narendra Modi has been. He specifically created the Narendra Modi App to connect with the Gen X & the millenniials -try it out for yoursef- http://www.narendramodi.in/downloadappBirthday wishes from the PM Narendra Modi - this one gesture just AMAZED & THRILLED ME TO THE CORE. I got this email on my birthday - I think its because I downloaded the Narendra Modi app. but still THE PRIME MINISTER of India does not need to do that.My retired Father-in-law’s experience interacting with the Prime Ministers Office (PMO)He wanted to open a PPF account in his regular post office in KolkataThe post office folks insisted on him to open a SAVINGS ACCOUNT at their place, transfer the money to the savings account in their bank and only then will they oblige to opening the PPF . Looks like they had targets to meetMy father-in-law sent a mail to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) along with the details.. It was most probably an act of desperation.Surprise! Surprise! He received a response from the PMO in a week’s time. And a few days later someone from the same post office called hims up and told that he can now come and OPEN the PPF without opening & transfering his money into their Savings account. And in return requested him to take back his complaint from the PMO. I have NEVER HEARD OF SUCH QUICK RESOLUTIONS in my entire life. Its nothing than a miracle.Given all this information (it its not everything), I wish to conclude that INDIA is surely doing MUCH MUCH BETTER that it was in 2012/13. And the TIME HAS COME TO RE-TRANSFORM India to the “SONE-KI-CHIDIYA (GOLDEN BIRD)” that it was ages ago.I believe PM NARENDRA MODI is a man on a mission and if anyone can MAKE IT HAPPEN ITS HIM.Jai Hind.

Interesting that you should ask. Just a week or so ago, I ran across a list of Trump’s accomplishments in just 24 months in office. Just to compare, I also looked up Joe Biden’s record of accomplishments made in 44 years of service.I’ll list Joe’s first…1960: “[O]ne of the best pass receivers I had in 16 years as a coach.” — E. John Walsh, football coach at Archmere Academy.1965: Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Delaware in Newark, with a double major in history and political science and a minor in English.1968: Graduated from Syracuse University College of Law with a law degree.1969: Admitted to the Delaware bar.1970-72: Served on New Castle County Council.1972-77: Single parent to two sons, commuting on Amtrak 75 minutes each way between his home in Wilmington, Delaware and Washington, D.C.Joe Biden: Senate accomplishments1973-2009: U.S. Senator from Delaware, initially focussing on consumer protection, environmental issues, government accountability, and arms control. In his 6 terms as a senator, Joe Biden sponsored or co-sponsored 348 pieces of legislation that became law.1981-97: Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for 17 years.1986: Introduced his Global Climate Protection Act, one of the first bills aimed at addressing climate change.1990s: Authored every major piece of crime legislation this decade, including the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.1992-1995: Strongly guided Balkans policy in the mid-1990s during the Bosnian War, producing a successful NATO peacekeeping effort.1994: Spearheaded the Violence Against Women Act, criminalizing violence against women and creating unprecedented resources for survivors of assault, which was followed by a 64% drop in domestic violence from 1993 to 2010.1997-2009: Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years, leading legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.1997: Led the Senate to approve ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention.1998: Led the Senate to approve NATO enlargement and passage of bills to streamline foreign affairs agencies and punish religious persecution overseas.1999: Co-sponsored the McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which called on President Clinton to use all necessary force, including ground troops, to confront Milošević over Yugoslav actions in Kosovo.2000: Sponsored the Kids 2000 Act, establishing a public-private partnership to provide computer centers, teachers, Internet access, and technical training to young people, particularly low-income and at-risk youth.Joe Biden: Vice President accomplishments-2017: Vice President of the United States.2009: Implemented and oversaw the $840 billion stimulus package in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.2009: Chaired the Middle Class Working Families Task Force.2010: Fought for Congressional approval of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which inserted accountability into the financial sector and fortified the stability of the financial system.2011: Led negotiations between Congress and the White House in resolving federal spending levels for the rest of the year and avoiding a government shutdown. Negotiated with Mitch McConnell to agree on deficit-reducing Budget Control Act of 2011.2012: Headed the Gun Violence Task Force in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.2012: Negotiated a deal with Mitch McConnell that led to the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, averting a fiscal cliff and implementing the largest middle-class tax cut in history.2014: Co-chaired White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.2014: Served as the Obama administration’s emissary to Eastern European governments like Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine worried over Vladimir Putin’s ambitions in the region.Here’s Trumps list…..Economic Growth4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.Jobs4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office.More Americans are employed now than ever before in our history.Jobless claims at lowest level in nearly five decades.The economy has achieved the longest positive job-growth streak on record.Job openings are at an all-time high and outnumber job seekers for the first time on record.Unemployment claims at 50 year lowAfrican-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached record lows.African-American unemployment hit a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018.Hispanic unemployment at 4.5 percent.Asian-American unemployment at record low of 2 percent.Women’s unemployment recently at lowest rate in nearly 65 years.Female unemployment dropped to 3.6 percent in May 2018, the lowest since October 1953.Youth unemployment recently reached its lowest level in more than 50 years.July 2018’s youth unemployment rate of 9.2 percent was the lowest since July 1966.Veterans’ unemployment recently hit its lowest level in nearly two decades.July 2018’s veterans’ unemployment rate of 3.0 percent matched the lowest rate since May 2001.Unemployment rate for Americans without a high school diploma recently reached a record low.Rate for disabled Americans recently hit a record low.Blue-collar jobs recently grew at the fastest rate in more than three decades.Poll found that 85 percent of blue-collar workers believe their lives are headed “in the right direction.”68 percent reported receiving a pay increase in the past year.Last year, job satisfaction among American workers hit its highest level since 2005.Nearly two-thirds of Americans rate now as a good time to find a quality job.Optimism about the availability of good jobs has grown by 25 percent.Added more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.Manufacturing employment is growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades.100,000 new jobs supporting the production & transport of oil & natural gas.American IncomeMedian household income rose to $61,372 in 2017, a post-recession high.Wages up in August by their fastest rate since June 2009.Paychecks rose by 3.3 percent between 2016 and 2017, the most in a decade.Council of Economic Advisers found that real wage compensation has grown by 1.4 percent over the past year.Some 3.9 million Americans off food stamps since the election.Median income for Hispanic-Americans rose by 3.7 percent and surpassed $50,000 for the first time ever in history.Home-ownership among Hispanics is at the highest rate in nearly a decade.Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels ever recorded.American OptimismSmall business optimism has hit historic highs.NFIB’s small business optimism index broke a 35 year-old record in August.SurveyMonkey/CNBC’s small business confidence survey for Q3 of 2018 matched its all-time high.Manufacturers are more confident than ever.95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future, the highest ever.Consumer confidence is at an 18-year high.12 percent of Americans rate the economy as the most significant problem facing our country, the lowest level on record.Confidence in the economy is near a two-decade high, with 51 percent rating the economy as good or excellent.American BusinessInvestment is flooding back into the United States due to the tax cuts.Over $450 billion dollars has already poured back into the U.S., including more than $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018.Retail sales have surged. Commerce Department figures from August show that retail sales increased 0.5 percent in July 2018, an increase of 6.4 percent from July 2017.ISM’s index of manufacturing scored its highest reading in 14 years.Worker productivity is the highest it has been in more than three years.Steel and aluminum producers are re-opening.Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and NASDAQ have all notched record highs.Dow hit record highs 70 times in 2017 alone, the most ever recorded in one year.DeregulationAchieved massive deregulation at a rapid pace, completing 22 deregulatory actions to every one regulatory action during his first year in office.Signed legislation to roll back costly and harmful provisions of Dodd-Frank, providing relief to credit unions, and community and regional banks.Federal agencies achieved more than $8 billion in lifetime net regulatory cost savings.Rolled back Obama’s burdensome Waters of the U.S. rule.Used the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations more times than in history.Tax CutsBiggest tax cuts and reforms in American history by signing the Tax Cuts and Jobs act into lawProvided more than $5.5 trillion in gross tax cuts, nearly 60 percent of which will go to families.Increased the exemption for the death tax to help save Family Farms & Small Business.Nearly doubled the standard deduction for individuals and families.Enabled vast majority of American families will be able to file their taxes on a single page by claiming the standard deduction.Doubled the child tax credit to help lessen the financial burden of raising a family.Lowered America’s corporate tax rate from the highest in the developed world to allow American businesses to compete and win.Small businesses can now deduct 20 percent of their business income.Cut dozens of special interest tax breaks and closed loopholes for the wealthy.9 in 10 American workers are expected see an increase in their paychecks thanks to the tax cuts, according to the Treasury Department.More than 6 million of American workers have received wage increases, bonuses, and increased benefits thanks to tax cuts.Over 100 utility companies have lowered electric, gas, or water rates thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.Ernst & Young found 89 percent of companies planned to increase worker compensation thanks to the Trump tax cuts.Established opportunity zones to spur investment in left behind communities.Worker DevelopmentEstablished a National Council for the American Worker to develop a national strategy for training and retraining America’s workers for high-demand industries.Employers have signed Trump’s “Pledge to America’s Workers,” committing to train or retrain more than 4.2 million workers and students.Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.Domestic InfrastructureProposed infrastructure plan would utilize $200 billion in Federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investment across the country.Executive order expediting environmental reviews and approvals for high priority infrastructure projects.Federal agencies have signed the One Federal Decision Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) streamlining the federal permitting process for infrastructure projects.Rural prosperity task force and signed an executive order to help expand broadband access in rural areas.Health CareSigned an executive order to help minimize the financial burden felt by American households Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.Signed Right-to-Try legislation, expanding health care options for terminally ill patients.Enacted changes to the Medicare 340B program, saving seniors an estimated $320 million on drugs in 2018 alone.FDA set a new record for generic drug approvals in 2017, saving consumers nearly $9 billion.Released a blueprint to drive down drug prices for American patients, leading multiple major drug companies to announce they will freeze or reverse price increases.Expanded short-term, limited-duration health plans.Let more employers to form Association Health Plans, enabling more small businesses to join together and affordably provide health insurance to their employees.Cut Obamacare’s burdensome individual mandate penalty.Signed legislation repealing Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, also known as the “death panels.”USDA invested more than $1 billion in rural health care in 2017, improving access to health care for 2.5 million people in rural communities across 41 statesProposed Title X rule to help ensure taxpayers do not fund the abortion industry in violation of the law.Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy to keep foreign aid from supporting the global abortion industry.HHS formed a new division over protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom.Overturned Obama administration’s midnight regulation prohibiting states from defunding certain abortion facilities.Signed executive order to help ensure that religious organizations are not forced to choose between violating their religious beliefs by complying with Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate or shutting their doors.Combating OpioidsChaired meeting the 73rd General Session of the United Nations discussing the worldwide drug problem with international leaders.Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand, introducing new measures to keep dangerous drugs out of our communities.$6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.DEA conducted a surge in April 2018 that arrested 28 medical professions and revoked 147 registrations for prescribing too many opioids.Brought the “Prescribed to Death” memorial to President’s Park near the White House, helping raise awareness about the human toll of the opioid crisis.Helped reduce high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent in 2017.Opioid Summit on the administration-wide efforts to combat the opioid crisis.Launched a national public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.Created a Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis which recommended a number of pathways to tackle the opioid crisis.Led two National Prescription Drug Take Back Days in 2017 and 2018, collecting a record number of expired and unneeded prescription drugs each time.$485 million targeted grants in FY 2017 to help areas hit hardest by the opioid crisis.Signed INTERDICT Act, strengthening efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids before they reach our communities.DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.Declared the opioid crisis a Nationwide Public Health Emergency in October 2017.Law and OrderMore U.S. Circuit Court judges confirmed in the first year in office than ever.Confirmed more than two dozen U. S. Circuit Court judges.Followed through on the promise to nominate judges to the Supreme Court who will adhere to the ConstitutionNominated and confirmed Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.Signed an executive order directing the Attorney General to develop a strategy to more effectively prosecute people who commit crimes against law enforcement officers.Launched an evaluation of grant programs to make sure they prioritize the protection and safety of law enforcement officers.Established a task force to reduce crime and restore public safety in communities across Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.Signed an executive order to focus more federal resources on dismantling transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels.Violent crime decreased in 2017 according to FBI statistics.$137 million in grants through the COPS Hiring Program to preserve jobs, increase community policing capacities, and support crime prevention efforts.Enhanced and updated the Project Safe Neighborhoods to help reduce violent crime.Signed legislation making it easier to target websites that enable sex trafficking and strengthened penalties for people who promote or facilitate prostitution.Created an interagency task force working around the clock to prosecute traffickers, protect victims, and prevent human trafficking.Conducted Operation Cross Country XI to combat human trafficking, rescuing 84 children and arresting 120 human traffickers.Encouraged federal prosecutors to use the death penalty when possible in the fight against the trafficking of deadly drugs.New rule effectively banning bump stock sales in the United States.Border Security and ImmigrationSecured $1.6 billion for border wall construction in the March 2018 omnibus bill.Construction of a 14-mile section of border wall began near San Diego.Worked to protect American communities from the threat posed by the vile MS-13 gang.ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division arrested 796 MS-13 members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the prior year.Justice worked with partners in Central America to secure criminal charges against more than 4,000 MS-13 members.Border Patrol agents arrested 228 illegal aliens affiliated with MS-13 in FY 2017.Fighting to stop the scourge of illegal drugs at our border.ICE HSI seized more than 980,000 pounds of narcotics in FY 2017, including 2,370 pounds of fentanyl and 6,967 pounds of heroin.ICE HSI dedicated nearly 630,000 investigative hours towards halting the illegal import of fentanyl.ICE HSI made 11,691 narcotics-related arrests in FY 2017.Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand introduced new measures to keep dangerous drugs out the United States.Signed the INTERDICT Act into law, enhancing efforts to detect and intercept synthetic opioids.DOJ secured its first-ever indictments against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers.DOJ launched their Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team, aimed at disrupting online illicit opioid sales.Released an immigration framework that includes the resources required to secure our borders and close legal loopholes, and repeatedly called on Congress to fix our broken immigration laws.Authorized the deployment of the National Guard to help secure the border.Enhanced vetting of individuals entering the U.S. from countries that don’t meet security standards, helping to ensure individuals who pose a threat to our country are identified before they enter.These procedures were upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court hearing.ICE removed over 226,000 illegal aliens from the United States in 2017.ICE rescued or identified over 500 human trafficking victims and over 900 child exploitation victims in 2017 alone.In 2017, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 127,000 aliens with criminal convictions or charges, responsible forOver 76,000 with dangerous drug offenses.More than 48,000 with assault offenses.More than 11,000 with weapons offenses.More than 5,000 with sexual assault offenses.More than 2,000 with kidnapping offenses.Over 1,800 with homicide offenses.Created the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office in order to support the victims and families affected by illegal alien crime.More than doubled the number of counties participating in the 287(g) program, which allows jails to detain criminal aliens until they are transferred to ICE custody.TradeNegotiating and renegotiating better trade deals, achieving free, fair, and reciprocal trade for the United States.Agreed to work with the European Union towards zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsides.Deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.Litigated multiple WTO disputes targeting unfair trade practices and upholding our right to enact fair trade laws.Finalized a revised trade agreement with South Korea, which includes provisions to increase American automobile exports.Negotiated an historic U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement to replace NAFTA.Agreement to begin trade negotiations for a U.S.-Japan trade agreement.Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.Established a Trade and Investment Working Group with the United Kingdom, laying the groundwork for post-Brexit trade.Enacted steel and aluminum tariffs to protect our vital steel and aluminum producers and strengthen our national security.Conducted 82 anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations in 2017 alone.Confronting China’s unfair trade practices after years of Washington looking the other way.25 percent tariff on $50 billion of goods imported from China and later imposed an additional 10% tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods.Conducted an investigation into Chinese forced technology transfers, unfair licensing practices, and intellectual property theft.Imposed safeguard tariffs to protect domestic washing machines and solar products manufacturers hurt by China’s trade policiesWithdrew from the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).Secured access to new markets for America’s farmers.Recent deal with Mexico included new improvements enabling food and agriculture to trade more fairly.Recent agreement with the E.U. will reduce barriers and increase trade of American soybeans to Europe.Won a WTO dispute regarding Indonesia’s unfair restriction of U.S. agricultural exports.Defended American Tuna fisherman and packagers before the WTOOpened up Argentina to American pork experts for the first time in a quarter-centuryAmerican beef exports have returned to china for the first time in more than a decadeOK’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.EnergyPresidential Memorandum to clear roadblocks to construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.Presidential Memorandum declaring that the Dakota Access Pipeline serves the national interest and initiating the process to complete construction.Opened up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration.Coal exports up over 60 percent in 2017.Rolled back the “stream protection rule” to prevent it from harming America’s coal industry.Cancelled Obama’s anti-coal Clean Power Plan and proposed the Affordable Clean Energy Rule as a replacement.Withdrew from the job-killing Paris climate agreement, which would have cost the U.S. nearly $3 trillion and led to 6.5 million fewer industrial sector jobs by 2040.U.S. oil production has achieved its highest level in American historyUnited States is now the largest crude oil producer in the world.U.S. has become a net natural gas exporter for the first time in six decades.Action to expedite the identification and extraction of critical minerals that are vital to the nation’s security and economic prosperity.Took action to reform National Ambient Air Quality Standards, benefitting American manufacturers.Rescinded Obama’s hydraulic fracturing rule, which was expected to cost the industry $32 million per year.Proposed an expansion of offshore drilling as part of an all-of-the above energy strategyHeld a lease sale for offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2018.Got EU to increase its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States.Issued permits for the New Burgos Pipeline that will cross the U.S.-Mexico border.Foreign PolicyMoved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.Withdrew from Iran deal and immediately began the process of re-imposing sanctions that had been lifted or waived.Treasury has issued sanctions targeting Iranian activities and entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods ForceSince enacting sanctions, Iran’s crude exports have fallen off, the value of Iran’s currency has plummeted, and international companies have pulled out of the country.All nuclear-related sanctions will be back in full force by early November 2018.Historic summit with North Korean President Kim Jong-Un, bringing beginnings of peace and denuclearization to the Korean Peninsula.The two leaders have exchanged letters and high-level officials from both sides have met resulting in tremendous progress.North Korea has halted nuclear and missile tests.Negotiated the return of the remains of missing-in-action soldiers from the Korean War.Imposed strong sanctions on Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro and his inner circle.Executive order preventing those in the U.S. from carrying out certain transactions with the Venezuelan regime, including prohibiting the purchase of the regime’s debt.Responded to the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.Rolled out sanctions targeting individuals and entities tied to Syria’s chemical weapons program.Directed strikes in April 2017 against a Syrian airfield used in a chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians.Joined allies in launching airstrikes in April 2018 against targets associated with Syria’s chemical weapons use.New Cuba policy that enhanced compliance with U.S. law and held the Cuban regime accountable for political oppression and human rights abuses.Treasury and State are working to channel economic activity away from the Cuban regime, particularly the military.Changed the rules of engagement, empowering commanders to take the fight to ISIS.ISIS has lost virtually all of its territory, more than half of which has been lost under Trump.ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city, Raqqah, was liberated in October 2017.All Iraqi territory had been liberated from ISIS.More than a dozen American hostages have been freed from captivity all of the world.Action to combat Russia’s malign activities, including their efforts to undermine the sanctity of United States elections.Expelled dozens of Russian intelligence officers from the United States and ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle, WA.Banned the use of Kaspersky Labs software on government computers, due to the company’s ties to Russian intelligence.Imposed sanctions against five Russian entities and three individuals for enabling Russia’s military and intelligence units to increase Russia’s offensive cyber capabilities.Sanctions against seven Russian oligarchs, and 12 companies they own or control, who profit from Russia’s destabilizing activities.Sanctioned 100 targets in response to Russia’s occupation of Crimea and aggression in Eastern Ukraine.Enhanced support for Ukraine’s Armed Forces to help Ukraine better defend itself.Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.DefenseExecutive order keeping the detention facilities at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay open.$700 billion in military funding for FY 2018 and $716 billion for FY 2019.Largest military pay raise in nearly a decade.Ordered a Nuclear Posture Review to ensure America’s nuclear forces are up to date and serve as a credible deterrent.Released America’s first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years.New strategy on national biodefense, which better prepares the nation to defend against biological threats.Administration has announced that it will use whatever means necessary to protect American citizens and servicemen from unjust prosecution by the International Criminal Court.Released an America first National Security Strategy.Put in motion the launch of a Space Force as a new branch of the military and relaunched the National Space Council.Encouraged North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies to increase defense spending to their agree-upon levels.In 2017 alone, there was an increase of more than 4.8 percent in defense spending amongst NATO allies.Every member state has increased defense spending.Eight NATO allies will reach the 2 percent benchmark by the end of 2018 and 15 allies are on trade to do so by 2024.NATO allies spent over $42 billion dollars more on defense since 2016.Executive order to help military spouses find employment as their families deploy domestically and abroad.Veterans affairsSigned the VA Accountability Act and expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.Delivered more appeals decisions – 81,000 – to veterans in a single year than ever before.Strengthened protections for individuals who come forward and identify programs occurring within the VA.Signed legislation that provided $86.5 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest dollar amount in history for the VA.VA MISSION Act, enacting sweeping reform to the VA system that:Consolidated and strengthened VA community care programs.Funding for the Veterans Choice program.Expanded eligibility for the Family Caregivers Program.Gave veterans more access to walk-in care.Strengthened the VA’s ability to recruit and retain quality healthcare professionals.Enabled the VA to modernize its assets and infrastructure.Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act in 2017, which authorized $2.1 billion in addition funds for the Veterans Choice Program.Worked to shift veterans’ electronic medical records to the same system used by the Department of Defense, a decades old priority.Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.Increased transparency and accountability at the VA by launching an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with access to wait time and quality of care data.Signed legislation to modernize the claims and appeal process at the VA.Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, providing enhanced educational benefits to veterans, service members, and their family members.Lifted a 15-year limit on veterans’ access to their educational benefits.Created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.Signed the Veterans Treatment Court Improvement Act, increasing the number of VA employees that can assist justice-involved veterans.