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April 23, 2024
…popular in Europe and the U.S. for the first 20 years of this century: If we support women working, then they will have more children. A headline in the Guardian declared: “France’s…
April 22, 2024
…on the West Bank. It singles out Caterpillar for selling equipment to Israel said to be used to demolish Palestinian homes; disable water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure; destroy or uproot…
April 19, 2024
At the height of the New Deal, with the Social Security Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Civilian Conservation Corps already enacted, the Roosevelt Administration’s Farm Security Administration…
April 18, 2024
…Christian Gregory recently found that most food insecure individuals “consume enough (or even too many) calories.” And research by Craig Gundersen and David Ribar found that most of those who spend the least on…
April 18, 2024
…often have discounted the importance of the nation’s houses of worship. One recent New Yorker article, for instance, suggested faith left Christian men tortured by “guilt and shame that makes…
April 9, 2024
A self-described libertarian friend once described to me the feeling she had when it was time to leave the hospital with her newborn baby. She remembered looking at the nurse…
April 8, 2024
…barely keeping up with inflation, who are raising three kids on $75,000 per year (the median U.S. household income), will be asked to kick in almost $1,000 more to the federal government…
April 5, 2024
…Testing, Social Work Assessment and Custody at 5 Hospitals,” Academic Pediatrics 23, no. 6 (August 2023): 1268–75, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36754165; and Sebastian Schoneich et al., “Incidence of Newborn Drug Testing and Variations by…
April 3, 2024
…its Fearless Foundation, is racially discriminatory because provides $20,000 prizes exclusively to Black women entrepreneurs. Just as it sued on behalf of Asian students in the Students for Fair Admissions vs….
March 27, 2024
Opportunity varies by place in the US, with the lowest levels of opportunity in states in the former Confederacy and American Indian reservations. Rural America faces unique challenges in relative…