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Obstacles to Medicare for All

Category: Society | Lifestyles | Human Interest | Health

Two primary obstacles are:  

  1. The for-profit private healthcare insurance companies,  hospitals,  and big pharma will fight Medicare-for-All to the bitter end.  They have everything to lose and nothing to gain.
  2. People who are covere...

Immigration 101: History of Immigration Law and Current Situation

Category: Society | Lifestyles | Human Interest | Politics National | Education

First, a few key historical facts about Immigration in the U.S.:

  1. Until 1965, American immigration law has always been racist, starting with the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act:  The Western Hemisphere, or European immigrants, have always had much higher quotas than immigrants fr...

A Middle Class is Essential to Democracies

Category: Business | Economy | Society | Lifestyles | Human Interest | Politics National

It's no secret that America's middle class is in decline. But while we focus on how that decline started (and who is to blame), we often forget to consider what happens if our middle class is wiped out entirely.

If we don't work to restore the American middle class to the vi...

Automation is Not the Main Reason for Low Wages and Job Loss

Category: Business | Science | Technology | Economy | Society | Human Interest

In an opinion piece, Princeton economist Paul Krugman states that while many people assume that automation is the main reason for job loss and low wages, this is just not the case. Instead, it is the lopsided power balance between employers and workers, a trend since the 1970s, that is responsibl...

Madeleine Albright: 21st Century Fascism

Category: Society | Lifestyles | Human Interest | Politics National

The rise of demagogues with autocratic tendencies--men who can rally certain segments of society using nativist, racist, and fake populist appeals--is an emerging trend today. Madeleine Albright and Bill Woodward have written a book, Fascism: A Warning, about how Hitler and Mussolini rose to powe...

Trickle Down Economics Does Not Work

Category: Business | Economy | Human Interest | Politics National

The economic theory championed by conservatives that emerged during the Reagan era—that by cutting the tax rates of the rich/corporations would “trickle down” to everyone else through economic growth and job creation—has been proven to be INVALID.

Research actual...