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Thread By Thread – Gloria Travers & The North Street Band
When love begins to unravel, do you walk away or pick up the thread? “Thread By...
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- Written by: Munden-Dixon and Leslie Roche
As California contends with drought, wildfires and other impacts of climate change, a small yet passionate group of residents are attempting to lessen these effects and reduce the state’s carbon emissions.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Make no mistake, how we pay for healthcare in the US is broken for many individuals and for many communities. Like a tire with a slow leak, without immediate repair, the outlook for the largest industry in the US economy is bleak.
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- Written by: Jake Johnson
Trump wants to destroy Medicaid while claiming to save it. This fiendish scheme is an Orwellian fable conjured up by the most shameless pack of liars to ever occupy our government.
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- Written by: Anand Giridharadas
It’s no secret that the biggest gains in the growing global economy are reaped by the extremely wealthy.
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- Written by: Faisal Chaudhry
The high price of insulin, which has reached as much as US$450 per month, has raised outrage across the country. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has called it a national embarrassment, wondering why U.S. residents should have to drive to Canada to buy cheaper insulin.
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- Written by: George Lakey
According to Atheendar Venkataramani, the study’s lead author and a professor in the university’s Perelman School of Medicine, economic instability can affect people’s mental well-being and drive up the risk of substance abuse.
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- Written by: Dean Baker
In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States.
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- Written by: Ellen Brown
Although the repo market is little known to most people, it is a $1-trillion-a-day credit machine, in which not just banks but hedge funds and other “shadow banks” borrow to finance their trades.
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- Written by: Eoin Higgins
Across the political spectrum, there is near consensus among these economists that a single-payer system would save money.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
The same forces that are driving massive inequality between the top 1 percent and the rest of us are creating a vast generational wealth gap between baby boomers — my generation — and millennials.Millennials aren’t teenagers anymore.
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- Written by: Joshua Rivenbark and Candice Odgers
An adolescent’s sense of their own family’s social and economic status is closely linked to that teen’s physical and cognitive health, according to a study of British twins.
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- Written by: Eileen Workman
People today are espousing some very strange beliefs about the state of our modern economy. We frequently hear things like: We can no longer afford to educate our children, provide universal health care, clean up our polluted environment, innovate around renewable energy resources, provide food, water and basic shelter for all, share...
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- Written by: Mara Casey Tieken
Rural school closures are causing as much, if not more, upheaval as what’s going on when public schools in Chicago and other cities close.
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- Written by: Simon F. Haeder
Partisan wrangling over health reform has perhaps been the most acrimonious issue in Americans politics, exemplified by the failed Clinton health reform efforts in the 1990s and the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
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- Written by: Ivan Chase
Hermit crabs can teach us about wealth inequality, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Grant Alexander Wilson
The year 2019 will be known as the year of retail closures in Canada and the United States.
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- Written by: C. Michael White
Generic prescription drugs have saved the U.S. about US$1.7 trillion over the past decade. The Food and Drug Administration approved a record 781 new generics in 2018 alone, including generic versions of Cialis, Levitra and Lyrica.
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- Written by: Bandy X. Lee
Even though mental illness affects one in five adults – and depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide – secrecy and stigma around the issue continue.
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- Written by: Simon F. Haeder
The are tremendous health disparities rural Americans face, in terms of both their own health and accessing care.
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- Written by: Jan Mutchler
The U.S. population is aging at such a rate that within a few years, older Americans will outnumber the country’s children for the first time, according to census projections.
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- Written by: NBC News
NBC News’ speaks to doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital about how they are coping with drug shortages and the reason they think it is happening.
