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What the Future will bring: America faces the most significant test of its democracy since the Civil War

What the Future will bring: America faces the most significant test of its democracy since the Civil War

Posted by | Jul 16, 2021 |

“Are you on the side of truth or lies; fact or fiction; justice or injustice; democracy or autocracy?” – President Joe Biden In a speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on July 13, President Joe Biden asked his audience to take a stand as he called defending the right to vote in America, “a test of our time.” Biden explained that the 2020 election has been examined and reexamined and that “no other election has ever been held under such scrutiny and such high standards.” The Big Lie that Trump won is just that, he said: a...

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Trump’s Big Lie: Research shows the corrosive power of his unsubstantiated stolen election claims

Trump’s Big Lie: Research shows the corrosive power of his unsubstantiated stolen election claims

Posted by | Jul 16, 2021 |

Republicans across the country have embraced a similar refrain as they push for new restrictions on voting. A significant chunk of the American electorate doesn’t have confidence in the results of the 2020 election, they argue, so new laws to restore “integrity” to elections are needed. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or other irregularities in the November 2020 election, which officials said was the “most secure” in American history. Nonetheless, public opinion polls regarding the integrity of the 2020 vote are alarming. Nearly a third of Americans believe Joe Biden won the presidency due to voter fraud,...

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Two Americas: Why the national division has shifted to the Vaccinated and Unvaccinated

Two Americas: Why the national division has shifted to the Vaccinated and Unvaccinated

Posted by | Jul 15, 2021 |

News broke on July 13 that, under pressure from Republican leaders, Republican-dominated Tennessee will no longer conduct vaccine outreach for minors. Only 38% of people in Tennessee are vaccinated, and yet the state Department of Health will no longer reach out to urge minors to get vaccinated. The change affects not only vaccines for the coronavirus, but also all other routine vaccines. On July 12, Tennessee’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tim Jones sent an email to staff saying there should be “no proactive outreach regarding routine vaccines” and “no outreach whatsoever regarding the HPV vaccine.” The HPV vaccine protects...

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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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