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HHS awards Milwaukee $4M to fight COVID-19 and improve health literacy among minority communities

HHS awards Milwaukee $4M to fight COVID-19 and improve health literacy among minority communities

Posted by | Jul 15, 2021 |

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) awarded $4 million to the City of Milwaukee’s Office of African American Affairs. The funding is a part of a $250 million two-year initiative to identify and implement best practices for improving health literacy to enhance COVID-19 vaccination and other mitigation practices among underserved populations. The Advancing Health Literacy (AHL) to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 initiative is part of the Biden/Harris Administration’s National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. “The Advancing Health Literacy initiative is a vital part of the HHS...

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Structural Imbalance: The concentration of wealth has left the American economy perilously fragile

Structural Imbalance: The concentration of wealth has left the American economy perilously fragile

Posted by | Jul 14, 2021 |

Policymakers and the media are paying too much attention to how quickly the United States economy will emerge from the pandemic-induced recession, and not nearly enough to the nation’s deeper structural problem, the huge imbalance of wealth that could enfeeble the economy for years. Seventy per cent of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. But wealthy people, who now own more of the economy than at any time since the 1920s, spend only a small percentage of their incomes. Lower-income people, who were in trouble even before the pandemic, spend whatever they have – which has become very...

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The 40-year con of trickle-down Reaganomics: Why Republican’s toxic class warfare only spreads poverty

The 40-year con of trickle-down Reaganomics: Why Republican’s toxic class warfare only spreads poverty

Posted by | Jul 14, 2021

America has to reinvent our understanding of economics after 40 years of living under a tax-cutting, austerity-imposing, Republican-promoted trickle-down Reaganomics scam and return to a Keynesian system that still works in those countries like Norway, New Zealand or Denmark that never adopted “austerity.” The core idea of Reaganomics is that if we give huge tax cuts and multi-billion-dollar subsidies to billionaires and giant corporations, that will “incentivize” these “job creators” to expand the economy and raise prosperity all around for everybody. In fact, all those giant corporations and billionaires have done is put all that cash in their money...

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The greed of fossil fuel: An opposition to clean energy that can grow the economy and save our future

The greed of fossil fuel: An opposition to clean energy that can grow the economy and save our future

Posted by | Jul 12, 2021 |

Florida governor Ron DeSantis became the latest Republican governor to sign a bill making it harder for citizens to shift away from the fossil fuels that are changing the climate. The move came after Miami, which is in danger as sea levels rise, proposed cutting carbon emissions by banning natural gas infrastructure in new buildings. The bill was written by lawyers for utility companies, based on a pattern written by the American Gas Association. Lobbyists for the Florida Petroleum Association, the Florida Natural Gas Association and the Florida Retail Federation, the Florida Home Builders Association, and the National Utility...

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Big Oil’s dirty secrets: Petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels

Big Oil’s dirty secrets: Petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels

Posted by | Jul 12, 2021 |

After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes. An unprecedented wave of lawsuits, filed by cities and states across the US, aim to hold the oil and gas industry to account for the environmental devastation caused by fossil fuels – and covering up what they knew along the way. Coastal cities struggling to keep rising sea levels at bay, midwestern states watching “mega-rains” destroy crops and homes, and fishing communities losing catches to warming waters, are now demanding the oil conglomerates pay...

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From 2001 to 2021: The military mission of the United States in Afghanistan will finally end on August 31

From 2001 to 2021: The military mission of the United States in Afghanistan will finally end on August 31

Posted by | Jul 11, 2021 |

On July 8, President Joe Biden announced that the military mission of the United States in Afghanistan will end on August 31. We have been in that country for almost 20 years and have lost 2448 troops and personnel. Another 20,722 Americans have been wounded. Estimates of civilian deaths range from 35,000 to 40,000. The mission has cost more than a trillion dollars. Leaving Afghanistan brings up just how much the world has changed in the past two decades. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan a month after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 — which killed almost 3000 people...

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