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| 19.09.2024 | States Turn to Employers to Boost Child Care Benefits | This story was originally published by The 19th.
As efforts to expand the child tax credit and provide paid family leave have stalled at the federal level, states are increasingly incentivizing private employers to step in and fill one of t... |
| 04.09.2024 | National Politics | Raise taxes on the rich or cut them? Harris, Trump differ on how to boost the US economy | The economy has historically been a dominant issue in presidential elections. In an August survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs, Trump did narrowly better on the economy with 45% saying he would handle it better and... |
| 29.08.2024 | The Digital Tightrope: Navigating Free Speech and Responsibility in the Age of Social Media | In the ever-evolving landscape of social media, the balance between free speech and responsible content moderation is a tightrope walk. Recent events surrounding Mark Zuckerberg and Pavel Durov illustrate the complexities of this challenge.... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Eviction Dilemma: Balancing Tenant Rights and Landlord Concerns | Eviction records are like shadows. They linger long after the sun has set. For many tenants, these records can be a scarlet letter, marking them as unworthy in the eyes of future landlords. As states across the U.S. begin to seal eviction r... |
| 28.08.2024 | Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives | Two bits of news came out of the letter Mark Zuckerberg sent to Rep. Jim Jordan this week (and how people responded to it), neither of which are what you’re likely to have heard about. First, Donald Trump seems to be accusing himself of rig... |
| 24.08.2024 | National Politics | Landlords cry foul as more states seal eviction records | Property owners argue that sealing data on eviction filings — most of which are for nonpayment of rent — eliminates crucial insights into rental history. Housing advocates, however, warn that any filing can unfairly block renters from futur... |
| 20.08.2024 | National Politics | On track to be first trans member, Sarah McBride has hope for Congress | “There are a lot of people right now in this country who don’t see themselves reflected in government, and they deserve to see that,” she says of her gender identity. “But on a day-to-day basis, it’s not what I’m talking about or thinking a... |
| 19.08.2024 | The Economic Tightrope: Navigating Policy Promises and Market Realities | In the ever-shifting landscape of American politics, economic promises often dance on a tightrope. Politicians, like acrobats, make bold claims, hoping to catch the public's eye while balancing on the thin line between feasibility and fanta... |
| 16.08.2024 | National Politics | FACT FOCUS: A look at Harris’ economic agenda | Most economists do expect it would raise prices on many goods. The Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, estimates it would reduce average incomes in the top 60% of earners by 1.8%. And the... |
| 13.08.2024 | The Climate Conundrum: A Nation Divided on the Path Forward | In the heart of America, a storm brews. Not the kind that brings rain, but one that threatens the very fabric of our future. Climate change is no longer a distant worry; it’s a raging inferno, a tidal wave crashing against the shores of our... |
| 09.08.2024 | Letters to the Editor | Letters to the editor: Protest voting is surrender; fireworks can start fires; celebrating a new director of American West | Protest voting isn’t a statement. It’s surrender.
In 2020, citizens 18- to 43-year-olds represented 38% of eligible voters vs. 28% of Baby Boomers. This election cycle, these percentages will increase for Millennials and Gen Z, and decrease... |
| 08.08.2024 | 23% of US Congress Members Are Climate Change Deniers – And They’re All Republican | 6 Mins Read A new report has found that nearly a quarter of elected federal officials in the US think climate change is a hoax, and all of them belong to the Republican Party.
“We’ve had freezing periods in the 1970s. They said it was going... |
| 02.08.2024 | Black Forest Labs Unleashes FLUX.1: A New Era in AI Image Generation | In the world of artificial intelligence, innovation is the lifeblood. The recent launch of Black Forest Labs and its FLUX.1 image generation models marks a significant turning point. This startup, born from the minds behind Stability AI, is... |
| 01.08.2024 | Stable Diffusion creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M for FLUX.1 AI image generator | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Black Forest Labs, a startup founded by the original creators of Stable Diffusion, unveiled its brand new FLUX.1 ... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Political Circus: Trump’s Return and the GOP’s Stance on Abortion**
** | ** Donald Trump is back in the spotlight. His recent speech at the Republican National Convention was a mix of bravado and bravura. It was a performance, a spectacle, a reminder of the political circus that America has become. Trump’s accep... |
| 22.07.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: They changed the wording in party platform, but the GOP still wants to ban abortion | It’s outrageous that anyone would support laws that take away personhood rights from pregnant women while bestowing that status on their fetuses. As with all anti-abortion statutes, they turn the pregnant person into little more than an inc... |
| 28.06.2024 | What Did Biden and Trump Say About Business and the Economy at the Presidential Debate? Here's Everything You Need to Know. The economy took center stage at the Presidential Debate. | The first 2024 presidential debate on Thursday saw President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump go head-to-head in Atlanta, Georgia, moderated by CNN.
The two candidates sparred on everything from taxes to the national debt, highli... |
| 21.06.2024 | New Report Signals Community Groups are a Key Driver in the Reduction of Gun Violence in Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA − June 21, 2024 − Senator Vincent Hughes brought together anti-violence community groups, gun violence advocates, and lawmakers to highlight the impactful work of community violence intervention and the need for more state ... |
| 20.06.2024 | Trump is proposing a 10% tariff. Economists say that amounts to a $1,700 tax on Americans. | Biden announces tariff hikes on Chinese electric cars
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Former President Donald Trump is pledging to supercharge one of his signature trade policies — tariffs — if he's re-elected th... |
| 17.06.2024 | Exclusive: How agencies can regulate AI without new powers | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Government agencies should use existing regulations and powers to regulate AI, argues a new report from the Center for American Progress and Governing for Impact shar... |
| 14.06.2024 | More than 171,000 people traveled out-of-state for abortions last year | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Data: Guttmacher Institute; Note: Includes procedural and medication abortions provided at brick-and-mortar health facilities as well as medication abortions via tele... |
| 13.06.2024 | I Left the Corporate World to Start a Chicken Coop Business — Here Are 3 Valuable Lessons I Learned Along the Way Board meetings were traded for barnyards as a thriving new venture hatched. | Between 2021 and 2023, the United States experienced a 34% increase in likely employer business applications. It was during this entrepreneurial boom that I, along with a friend, transitioned from a corporate job to launching a venture in b... |
| 29.04.2024 | Young Americans' wealth has soared since the pandemic | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Data: Center for American Progress analysis of Federal Reserve data; Chart: Axios Visuals
Household wealth for those under 40 in the U.S. is up 49% from its pre-pandemic level, according to a new anal... |
| 21.04.2024 | Exclusive: Who drives the furthest to get an abortion | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Data: Center for American Progress analysis of Myers Abortion Facility Database and Census Bureau data; Note: Average of one-way drive times for all census tracts within a congressional district in th... |
| 17.04.2024 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Brian C. Keegan: Despite questionable poll, most Coloradans aren’t anti-growth | By Brian C. Keegan
Steve Pomerance’s March 22 article in The Post discussed a 2022 poll purporting to show widespread opposition within Colorado to population growth. Pomerance does a disservice to readers by failing to provide important ba... |
| 08.04.2024 | Climate-First Americans Are Less Likely to Vote | Sign up for the weekly Climate on the Ballot newsletter.
Every Monday, in “Climate on the Ballot,” we pass along a topic to help you integrate climate into your newsroom’s campaign reporting. Consider sharing this newsletter with your colle... |
| 08.04.2024 | Los estadounidenses que priorizan el clima son menos propensos a votar | Inscribirse para recibir el boletín semanal El Clima en la Boleta.
Cada lunes, en El Clima en la Boleta presentamos un tema para ayudarte a integrar el clima en la cobertura de la campaña de tu redacción. Considera compartir este boletín co... |
| 05.04.2024 |
Opinion: To redress racial bias in mortgage underwriting, scrap the credit score | To paraphrase Mark Twain, history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. The U.S. mortgage industry recently had to remind itself of this fact when a CNN analysis found that the nation’s largest credit union, Navy Federal, has the widest... |
| 04.04.2024 | FCC Prepares To Restore Net Neutrality, But The New Rules Might Be Weaker Than The Ones Discarded By Trump | The FCC has announced that it will vote to restore the net neutrality rules stripped away by the Trump administration during an agency meeting on April 25.
A reminder: net neutrality rules prevent giant telecoms from abusing their market po... |
| 26.03.2024 | Профсоюз из одного себя или работник против кабанчика в зарплатных ожиданиях | Для лиги лени: предлагаю, как ответ эффективным совам, писать в резюме не просто зарплатные ожидания, а «чудовищно завышенные (по мнению менеджмента) зарплатные ожидания – выше того что, реально хочется, на огромные 250-500$». Почему и и дл... |
| 21.03.2024 | Union households tend to have over $100,000 more in wealth than nonunion families, Federal Reserve data shows | Economy Union households tend to have over $100,000 more in wealth than nonunion families, Federal Reserve data shows
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| 20.03.2024 | There's a big wealth gap between union and nonunion workers | Data: Center for American Progress analysis of Federal Reserve and BLS data; Note: "Union" households include a head of household or spouse covered by a union contract; Chart: Axios Visuals
There's a massive wealth gap between wor... |
| 05.03.2024 | Health | America worries about health costs — and voters want to hear from Biden and Republicans | Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz | KFF Health News (TNS)
President Joe Biden is counting on outrage over abortion restrictions to help drive turnout for his reelection. Former President Donald Trump is promising to take another swing at repe... |
| 23.02.2024 | School superintendents' big concerns: Guns, culture wars and AI | School safety, artificial intelligence, student mental health and academic freedom are top of mind for America's school superintendents, who gathered in San Diego last week for one of the biggest education conferences of the year.
Why it ma... |
| 21.02.2024 | Growing up as a biracial person, I didn't understand how much generational wealth affected me | Personal Finance Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
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| 08.02.2024 | America Tires Of Big Telecom’s Shit, Driving Boom In Community-Owned Broadband Networks | For decades, frustrated towns and cities all over the country have responded to telecom market failure by building their own fiber broadband networks. Data routinely shows that not only do these networks provide faster, better, and cheaper ... |
| 05.02.2024 | Cable Companies, Automakers Try To Derail FTC, FCC Quest To Kill Misleading Fees | For decades now, airlines, hotels, cable companies, banks and a long list of other companies have bilked U.S. consumers out of billions of dollars annually via bullshit fees that unfairly jack up the advertised price of service. More intere... |
| 28.01.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: With growth cap gone, Boulder must still develop responsibly | There are few issues more divisive than growth in Boulder. Even the mention of the word can raise hackles and spark debates, which is why the news this month that the City Council voted to end the residential growth cap is worth carefully e... |
| 17.01.2024 | Americans are actually pretty happy with their finances | Americans overall have a surprising degree of satisfaction with their economic situation, according to findings from the Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll.
Why it matters: That's in spite of dour views among certain subsets of the count... |
| 14.01.2024 | High-net worth families are racing against the clock to shield their wealth before the estate tax increases | The wealthiest people in the U.S. could see major tax hikes after next year, sending high-net worth clients to financial planning offices around the country to try to get around them, their money managers say.
In two years, the estate tax e... |
| 14.01.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Civility, respect vital at the Capitol to ensure successful legislative session | If it wasn’t so devastating, the dysfunction of our political system at the national level would be almost comical. Misinformation, disinformation and overly heated rhetoric have driven a wedge between our political parties — and our societ... |
| 10.01.2024 | 4 reasons I always file my taxes right away | Personal Finance Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
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| 09.01.2024 | Health | Child care gaps in rural America threaten to undercut small communities | Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | KFF Health News (TNS)
Candy Murnion remembers vividly the event that pushed her to open her first day care business in Jordan, a town of fewer than 400 residents in a sea of grassland in eastern Montana.
Garfield C... |
| 07.01.2024 | Student-loan borrowers are taking on more debt, and it's not all tuition — blame skyrocketing housing costs | Economy Student-loan borrowers are taking on more debt, and it's not all tuition — blame skyrocketing housing costs
Eliza Relman and Ayelet Sheffey
2024-01-07T11:23:01Z
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| 06.01.2024 | Chart: Wage growth is beating inflation | Data: Center for American Progress; Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios Visuals
Inflation is hated mostly because it erodes the power of your paycheck. But the good news — and the reason why optimism might return to the U.S. in 2024, as I wrote t... |
| 05.12.2023 | Crossing the line: Fossil fuels could soon displace Earth from its “safe operating space” | This exclusive three-part Mongabay mini-series explores how the oil, natural gas and coal industry are destabilizing nine vital Earth systems, which create a “safe operating space” for humanity and other life on the planet. The first story ... |
| 06.11.2023 | Moms and remote jobs are helping to prop up the economy | Economy Moms and remote jobs are helping to prop up the economy
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2023-11-06T20:16:05Z
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| 25.10.2023 | Why is maternity leave for doctors such a complete mess? | I was sitting in my car around 4 p.m. on a Friday, waiting in the parking lot to be called in for my pre-delivery Covid test. I was equally exhausted from the physical demands of my second pregnancy and the emotional labor of typing up my l... |
| 17.10.2023 | Measuring the long-term cost of restricting abortion access | When Diana Greene Foster and her team at the University of California, San Francisco, started their study on the lives of women who were denied abortions in 2008, they sought to investigate a rather commonly held view: That having an aborti... |
| 03.10.2023 | Childcare providers are struggling to plan for the future as federal funding runs dry | Kayanna Jackson, a childcare provider in Southampton Township, New Jersey, told Insider she might have to close if she couldn't bring in more families or get more funding. Courtesy of Kayanna Jackson
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| 12.09.2023 | What is credit discrimination? | The three main types of credit discrimination are overt discrimination, disparate treatment, and disparate impact. skynesher/Getty
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| 11.09.2023 | 4 Ways Employers Can Better Serve Working Moms | Society celebrates motherhood through extensive commercial campaigns, endless products and public messages, but there lies a disconcerting underbelly of policies and practices that systematically undermine the well-being and career prospect... |
| 21.08.2023 | How the 2024 presidential candidates talk about taxes and budget challenges — a voters' guide | Soon after inauguration, the next president will be steering the toughest budget debates in decades, as individual tax rates expire and the debt limit will have to be suspended or raised.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans have already... |
| 20.08.2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Steven Berkowitz: As the mental health crisis for children worsens, a shortage of providers is preventing people from getting help | By Steven Berkowitz
The hospital where I practice recently admitted a 14-year-old girl with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, to our outpatient program. She was referred to us six months earlier, in October 2022, but at the time we w... |
| 15.08.2023 | Oregon opens applications for new paid family leave program | Oregon's new paid family leave program opened for applications Monday, following four years of preparation — disrupted by COVID — after the Legislature authorized it in 2019 with bipartisan support.
Why it matters: Lack of paid family leave... |
| 11.08.2023 | America’s Social Safety Net Is Broken—Here’s How We Fix It With The Farm Bill | David Helene is the founder and CEO of Beam. |
| 09.08.2023 | How Employers Can Avoid Losing Working Mothers To Financial Stress | Crissi Cole is the CEO and founder of Penny Finance, an online financial mentorship community for women. |
| 08.08.2023 | Understanding And Implementing Salary Transparency And Pay Equity | Tory Clarke, Co-Founder & Partner, Bridge Partners. |
| 08.08.2023 | Trump’s Wrong: Equal Rights Led To American Women’s Soccer Success | WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 7: U.S. President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to ... [+] Megan Rapinoe, soccer player and advocate for gender pay equality, whose career was built on Title IX and legal action for women's equal... |
| 03.08.2023 | Trump's "delusion" defense | Former President Trump's legal team is teasing a risky defense to his historic third indictment: that Trump genuinely believed his own lies about election fraud — despite being told by dozens of his closest advisers, allies and agencies tha... |
| 02.08.2023 | Meet Retired Barbie: Pensions Without Patriarchy Are 30% Higher | Australian actress Margot Robbie poses on the pink carpet upon arrival for the European premiere of ... [+] "Barbie" in central London on July 12, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)A... |
| 01.08.2023 | I hate US sports. The women’s football team is making it more difficult | When I was in the ninth grade in Austin, Texas, I got it into my head that I wanted to join my high school football team – by which I mean American football and not the sport that most of the rest of the world calls football and the United ... |
| 01.08.2023 | A major provider shortage bedevils Biden's plan to boost mental health coverage | The Biden administration's new effort to improve insurance coverage for mental health services is on a collision course with the nation's shortage of behavioral health professionals.
Why it matters: More than 160 million Americans live in a... |
| 29.07.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Lily Roberts: The Farm Bill is about more than farmers | By Lily Roberts
Each time Congress debates its priorities for the Farm Bill every five years, as it is doing this year, it faces legislation that profoundly affects the economic well-being of Americans nationwide.
From managing natural reso... |
| 29.07.2023 | Women Are At Much Greater Risk From Extreme Heat, New Atlantic Council Study Finds | A woman holds a young child under a waterfall at a park in Washington, DC, on June 28, 2021 (Photo ... [+] by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| 24.07.2023 | The Rise Of The $2 Million Health Insurance Claim | Mehb is Chief Actuary at BCS Financial, and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. |
| 24.07.2023 | Historic and enduring U.S. heat wave, by the numbers | Hot, dangerous conditions that parts of the West, Texas and Florida have endured for weeks will expand across the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. this week — starting in the north-central states and Plains, the National Weather Service warns... |
| 19.07.2023 | GOP's uncomfortable Trump defense | Republicans' playbook for defending Donald Trump is likely to face its biggest test in the coming weeks, as special counsel Jack Smith appears set to indict the former president for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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| 19.07.2023 | Health
Health | Study: Extreme heat increases summer health care costs by $1 billion in ‘ominous trajectory’ | Hunter Boyce | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A new study from Virginia Commonwealth University published by the Center for American Progress has reported that the heat wave running rampant across the U.S. is significantly inflating... |
| 12.07.2023 | Moving Beyond the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Rulings | At the end of its term, the Supreme Court upended established equal protection law with its decision in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, effectively eliminating the use of affirmative action in college admissions. The court’s decision disre... |
| 27.06.2023 | Georgia Republican fights for in-state tuition for DACA students | A Georgia Republican lawmaker is trying — again — to convince his colleagues to grant DACA recipients in-state tuition, despite four years of failing.
Why it matters: Roughly 3,000 undocumented and DACA students graduate from Georgia high s... |
| 26.06.2023 | States look to crack down on health care mergers | California and New York are among the states that are heightening scrutiny of health care mergers, by giving attorneys general the ability to block deals or creating new processes to review whether certain acquisitions could drive up costs ... |
| 23.06.2023 | Attorney General Bonta Joins Multistate Coalition in Support of Expanding Healthcare Access for DACA Recipients | OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced joining a bipartisan coalition of 19 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter in support of a proposed federal rule that would expand eligibility for healthcare access ... |
| 22.06.2023 | New Legislation Arrives To Support Moms In The Workplace, 30 Years After FMLA | Close up of a diverse group of business people having a business meeting in the officegetty |
| 21.06.2023 | I'm the CEO of Ancestry. Here are 6 things that are hard to admit as a working mother. | Deb Liu
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Liu writes that being a full-time working mother is hard and no one can do it without support.
She also admits that no mat... |
| 10.06.2023 | It could take another 33 years before women are paid the same as men, a new analysis shows | The gender wage gap may not be closed until 2056, according to a new analysis. Molly Riley/AFP via Getty Images
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The 60th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act prompted a new analysis of the gender wage gap.
It found an estimated $61 t... |
| 05.06.2023 | Women entrepreneurs are a missed opportunity in venture capital. Here’s how investors and policymakers can change that | Dr. Ashlie L Burkart, MD is the chief scientific officer at Germin8 Ventures, a venture capital firm that impact invests in the food and agricultural domain, and an associate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and Interna... |
| 02.06.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Joyce Kendrick: The SNAP expansion helped me lead a dignified life on disability – now it’s gone | By Joyce Kendrick
One thing I was grateful for during the pandemic was masks — and not just for safety reasons.
I’m on Medicare for disability, which unfortunately doesn’t cover dental care. At 60 years old, I’ve lost many of my teeth. It w... |
| 31.05.2023 | The most expensive cities for childcare | Redeem now
Parents spend years saving to send their kid to college. In order to give their child the best chance to succeed in life, parents open up special savings accounts, put in extra hours of overtime, and make constant financial sacri... |
| 26.05.2023 | Open Questions, Legal Hurdles for Biden’s New Border Rule | The Biden administration announced on May 16 a new border rule that creates new pathways for lawful entry and limits access to asylum for unauthorized entrants. Although the rule takes important steps to create alternatives to unauthorized ... |
| 16.05.2023 | Are Workplace Benefits a Viable Solution to the Child Care Crisis? | Situated at the base of the Great Smoky Mountains, surrounded by old country stores and taffy shops, is a theme park that, for the staff who work there, operates like a self-contained community.
Dollywood Parks and Resorts is a destination ... |
| 12.05.2023 | Are (Male) Investors Missing The Obvious? Why Investing In Female Leaders In Health Care Can Increase Returns And Improve Health Outcomes | 3 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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A male venture capitalist once said, “I don’t want to talk about vaginas every Monday morning in my partner meeting.”
Although nearly every woman has a vagina, the word itself can be e... |
| 12.05.2023 | Here's How Connecticut Could Implement a Historic New Voting Law | Known as the “land of steady habits,” Connecticut represents a microcosm of the racist legacy of voter suppression nationwide — but that might change soon.
While some people think of Connecticut as progressive, in truth, we’re behind on pro... |
| 12.05.2023 | It's Time To Expand Diagnostics Infrastructure Beyond Covid-19 | David is the CEO and co-founder of Ash Wellness, an at-home diagnostics company providing accessible and inclusive healthcare for all. |
| 10.05.2023 | Why buzzy weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy cost so much more in the US | Semaglutide is a weekly injection that mimics a hunger-regulating hormone in the body. Insider
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Trendy weight-loss drugs cost much more in the US than in other countries.
The price of semaglutide, the drug sold as Wegovy, was thre... |
| 07.05.2023 | A 'Shark Tank' winner and stay-at-home dad who Mark Cuban called a 'compassionate capitalist' doubled down on his business when his wife's health took a sudden turn: 'There is no greater incentive to ... | Freya Williams brought in the main income for her family before coming down with long COVID. Tomo Delaney
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Freya Williams was a CEO and her family's breadwinner before contracting long COVID.
Her husband dove into his small busine... |
| 05.05.2023 | Why Fair Housing is Key to Systemic Equality | Few fights are more pivotal to ending systemic inequality than the fight for fair and stable housing. When Martin Luther King, Jr. launched a campaign to end slums in 1966, he connected the struggle to obtain decent housing with the need to... |
| 02.05.2023 | 911: Reimagining a System that Defaults to Dispatching Police | Every person deserves equal, effective treatment and safety, especially when in crisis. In such a vulnerable circumstance, people need professionals trained to provide support and care.
But too often, when a person is experiencing a mental ... |
| 02.05.2023 | Women's History Month Just Ended: 5 Ways Men In Leadership Can Support Women Now | Dr. Brandy L. Simula is an award-winning leadership development consultant, executive coach, and women's leadership expert. |
| 17.04.2023 | It’s Not All Bad—The Year In Positive Environmental News | IT’S NOT ALL BAD—THE YEAR IN POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS Photo Provided By iStock |
| 03.04.2023 | Emergency rooms need clear guidelines about how to handle law enforcement | The patient arrived in the trauma bay with gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen. “Doctor, please don’t let me die today,” he begged me.
But I couldn’t give him my full attention, because he was accompanied by two armed officers who were... |
| 28.03.2023 | To Support Women In The Workforce, Stop Focusing On Women | Hillary Clinton, Olena Zelenska, Billie Jean King And Gloria Steinem At Forbes’ 30/50 Summit.Maria Flynn |
| 12.03.2023 | Values-Driven 2V TrueESG™: A Right-Wing ESG Rating Methodology For Taking Down ESG | There is a surreal snake eating its tail ethereal ambience to this story. So let me start by saying I’m not making any of this up. You can verify every fact in this piece (unlike the WSJ op-ed piece I’ll be discussing below). Let me also sa... |
| 03.03.2023 | Child Labor Investigation Reveals Immigration Policy Changes We Need Now | Children across the nation are working in dangerous, sometimes lethal jobs in American factories, farms and mills — according to a New York Times exposé that has rattled corporate America, President Biden, and Congress.
The kids, who are he... |
| 02.03.2023 | How Latina Entrepreneur Corina Burton Once Failed, Then Launched A Multi-Million Business | Today Burton’s company CPR Construction Cleaning is franchised with an annual revenue of over $5.5 ... [+] million.Corina Burton |
| 22.02.2023 | When Elections Threaten the Rule of Law: The Good Governance Paradox of Judicial Elections | State courts handle the preponderance of legal disputes in America. Federal courts have increasingly deferred to states to demarcate the scope of foundational rights, and decisions by these courts have substantial impact on how Americans or... |
| 20.02.2023 | Illinois is set to mandate paid leave for nearly all workers | When Joan Van is sick, she doesn't get paid.
The East St. Louis-area restaurant server and single mother of three said she works doubles, meaning two eight-hour shifts in a 24-hour period, to make up the money when she or one of her childre... |
| 17.02.2023 | Anti-LGBTQ+ groups have ties to International Religious Freedom Summit | The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit that ended earlier this month in Washington, D.C., has been praised for bringing together a diverse, seemingly incompatible group of politicians, activists and dignitaries in furtherance of a... |
| 14.02.2023 | An undocumented worker was able to pay rent because he got $2,000 as part of a UBI-like program that will now be permanent for Coloradans who lose their jobs | Denver's forthcoming "Benefit Recovery Fund," a permanent "wage-replacement" program for undocumented workers, is the first of its kind in the country. Jon Paciaroni/Getty Images
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| 08.02.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Tom Conway: Social Security is America’s contract with working people | By Tom Conway
Cliff Carlton was the tenth of 11 children and one of three still living at home when his father, a coal miner, died unexpectedly at 67.
Only his dad’s Social Security benefits, along with vegetables from the family’s small fa... |
