Tag: Poverty
It’s hard to believe that hunger is still a major issue in our high-tech 21st century and, that it is an ever growing problem in “the richest nation on Earth”.
America operates a global empire, but its billionaires are never satisfied, and are determined for it to encompass every nation. The billionaires control their Government; the American public do not.
The United States cannot afford to maintain a war economy. Such a hyper-militarized economy is inciting dangerous tensions between nuclear powers, as well as eroding the very material foundations of American society.
By Peter Van BUREN Covid caused a very odd thing: the working poor got a raise. Via stimulus checks, federally-funded jumps in unemployment payments, and looser state-based unemployment qualifications (specifically including gig workers and independent contractors who weren’t before eligible for regular unemployment benefits) they […]
