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... “think Biden is our new savior,” and he challenged Biden to sanitize this nation from racism, bigotry and inequality. Father Pfleger, who said we have ... View article...

Las Vegas Is What Happens When America Happens - Worst of all, I already know that what ails America right now—violence, racism, inequality , corruption, hatred—is not the work of just a few bad actors or ...

Are you asking 'why?' America needs help - So, every day I see another Trump embarrassment make headlines, and I think how does this “Make America Great Again” ? Maybe “great” isn’t the word he intended. We have to remember that Trump’s vocabulary is just a little limited. He could have meant something else, like grim. Let’s try it out: “Make America Grim Again!” Okay, that could work, things were pretty grim during the Great Depression. Millions of people out of work and starving, no social safety nets, nothing but despair. That seems to be the path he wants to take now. Grim just may have been what he was trying to convey.

Poverty Is Not Inevitable: What We Can Do Now to Turn Things Around  - Since the early 1980s, there has been a growing underclass in America . At the same time a much smaller class, now called the super-rich, built its ...

'Fed Policy Now Is Like Methadone': Mike Santoli : "Fed policy now is like methadone . It's maintenance." Related: Everybody Hatest QE3: Bernanke Responds to Critics. And it's just what the market expected though there was a slight dip immediately after the Fed statement was released. Stocks closed ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Climate changes triggered immigration to America in the 19th century - In the 19th century, over 5 million Germans moved to North America . It was not only a century of poverty , war and revolutions in what is now Germany, but also of variable climate. Starting at the tail end of the cold period known as the Little Ice Age, the century saw glacier advances in the Alps, and a ...

How to Fight Economic Inequality —Right Now  - What can be done to reverse rising economic inequality in America —not just for future generations, but right now? Raise wages. That's the conclusion ...

The Medical Marijuana Law Was Passed in Massachusetts. So Now What ... : Melrose Mayor Robert Dolan told BostInno that voters who backed legalizing medical marijuana are a lot like voters wanting a new school—they are in favor of it happening, they just don't want to deal with paying for it. “If you had asked people if ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | usca.Stigmabase.org | eGAYlity

What Kavanaugh's Confirmation Means For America's Culture Wars - He's led nonviolent protests across the country to fight poverty and racism. And the Reverend William Barber II is with us now on the line from North ...

October Is National Bullying Awareness Month: What Adults Can Do Right Now : October is National Bullying Awareness Month, and as we ask our children and our schools to prevent bullying , we ought to take a hard look at ourselves too. Recent attacks on an overweight female Wisconsin TV anchor -- and her response -- illustrate ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

The Next Recession Is Coming. Now What? - The (sarcastic) good news: America's wealth gap expanded less than ... As is the case in the U.S. , persistent inequality breeds resentment and political ...

Money talks: What two recent scandals tell us about the nexus between wealth and power in America - None of this should be surprising given the stark economic inequality that now marks our society. The richest 1% of American households currently ...

Support for families: The U.S. ranks 33rd out of 36 nations. ... Educational Testing Service described a nation in crisis as income inequality in America ... View article...

Silicon Valley startups have always served the rich. Now they're helping the merely wealthy - If you want a gauge the degree of inequality in the US , watch what America's venture capitalists are funding. One of their most recent is FlyHome, ...

What the hurricanes revealed about Puerto Rico - One of the things Hurricane Maria has done is to uncover the great amount of poverty that there is in Puerto Rico, which had been camouflaged by the trees, the leaves, the forest,” Archbishop Roberto González Nieves of San Juan says in an interview with America . “Now it's all out in the open.

What can we do about inequality ? - All triplets are now manifested in the Trumpist debate in America . Inequality has risen because of four fundamental forces – geography, demography, technology and governance. Firstly, geography matters because the best jobs and wealth are created in advanced cities in the growing economies.

Dennis medical marijuana zoning: What happens next? : “The Public Health Council has limited local boards of health to strictly septic,” he said. “Right now the way the law is written, if I issue a permit for septic, I can't touch anything to do with medical marijuana when I enter that dispensary. Our ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | usca.Stigmabase.org | EGAYLiTY

... safeguard our homes and jobs is what America needs right now to face an uncertain future when economic inequality has grown greater than ever. View article...

What's worse is that over the last four decades, the U.S. has seen a dramatic rise in income inequality. According to the World Bank, America is now ... View article...

Now that the Moderna, Pfizer, and J&J vaccines are available for every adult in the United States, Black Americans are being encouraged to get ... View article...