“No one wants to work anymore,” reads one sign taped to a McDonald’s drive-thru. Many fast-food and service industry companies are reporting that they’re facing a labor shortage created by unemployment insurance. This myth has been refuted by workers and analysts’ data. The real problem is the stagnant, starvation minimum wage which if it kept…
A recent study proved that large corporations use taxpayer money to subsidize starvation wages which leave employees relying on public assistance programs to just survive, while executives reap billions in profit. The Government Accountability Office undertook the study at the request of Sen. Bernie Sanders to answer questions about the relationship between employers and the…
While billionaires brag about tax evasion, the highest tax burden as a percentage of income falls on the poorest Americans. The lowest 20 percent of taxpayers pay a tax rate more than 50 percent higher than the top 1 percent of households. This should come as no surprise after the Panama Papers bombshell of 2016…
“We’ve won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it,” General Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln (2012) encapsulates the Reconstruction Era’s limitations and failure to truly unite and rebuild post-Civil War America even a decade after. The Reconstruction Era was characterized by a fragmented country with a gridlocked Congress, violent, southern paramilitary…
Stock buybacks used to be illegal, once considered a form of stock manipulation until 1982 when the SEC passed rule 10b-18 legalizing the practice under Reagan’s failed trickle-down agenda. Over the past 10 years, companies on the S&P 500 have put $5.4 trillion into purchasing their own shares instead of investing in the economy and…
The Federal Reserve loaned $1.5 trillion to the financial system yesterday– $500 billion into short-term bank funding — and misguided critics believe the Fed exchanging cash for securities to increase liquidity and prevent a bank run is a government “bailout” and tantamount to “corporate welfare.” However, monetary policy is completely independent of fiscal policy (the…
If the federal minimum wage had kept up with the 657% increase in inflation and 176% rise in worker productivity over the past 50 years, it would be $21.72. It peaked in 1968 at $11.18 when the cost of a four-year public university was $329.00, according to National Center for Education Statistics, a manufacturing job…
Complete climate change mitigation is an alternative forecast that overlooks carbon-reduction solutions such as sequestration and nanotechnology that will be necessary to meet a 27% increase in global energy demand, provide electricity access in developing nations where 1 billion lack electricity and face barriers to renewable energy attainment. On our current baseline trajectory, renewables will…
Despite previously accepting the most refugees globally, the U.S. has a dark history of denying asylum to those fleeing human rights abuses — from the Jewish refugees in the 1930s, to the Haitians during the Duvalier dictatorship, and Salvadorans fleeing political violence in the 1980s. Many times these crises have been caused by U.S.-led regime…
By the year 2050, the UN estimates the global population will reach a staggering 9.8 billion. One of the biggest existential challenges facing this population projection will be the 70% rise of food demand. With most growth generating from developing nations, high-yield agricultural solutions based on food technology, sustainability, precision farming, and genetically engineered crops…
“No one wants to work anymore,” reads one sign taped to a McDonald’s drive-thru. Many fast-food and service industry companies are reporting that they’re facing a labor shortage created by unemployment insurance. This myth has been refuted by workers and analysts’ data. The real problem is the stagnant, starvation minimum wage which if it kept…
A recent study proved that large corporations use taxpayer money to subsidize starvation wages which leave employees relying on public assistance programs to just survive, while executives reap billions in profit. The Government Accountability Office undertook the study at the request of Sen. Bernie Sanders to answer questions about the relationship between employers and the…
After vowing to go to Supreme Court over ‘fraud’ and refusing to commit to conceding to election results for months, the rapidly sinking Titanic of a Trump campaign announced legal action in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania after today’s counted ballots are securing a Joe Biden win. Belligerent Trump supporters barged into Detroit’s Central Counting Board…
While billionaires brag about tax evasion, the highest tax burden as a percentage of income falls on the poorest Americans. The lowest 20 percent of taxpayers pay a tax rate more than 50 percent higher than the top 1 percent of households. This should come as no surprise after the Panama Papers bombshell of 2016…
Donald Trump’s nomination of conservative jurist Amy Coney Barret to the increasingly partisan Supreme Court has spared a deep confirmation battle. Many are contesting whether Americans’ having a stake in the decision requires waiting until the presidential election. Nonetheless, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on October 12th. What would a potential confirmation of…
“We’ve won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it,” General Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln (2012) encapsulates the Reconstruction Era’s limitations and failure to truly unite and rebuild post-Civil War America even a decade after. The Reconstruction Era was characterized by a fragmented country with a gridlocked Congress, violent, southern paramilitary…
The Iraq war is often cited as one of the worst intelligence failures in modern foreign policy history. The conflict claimed the lives of over 250,000 people under the false pretense that Iraq had obtained weapons of mass destruction (Matthews). Historians and foreign policy experts contest whether the framing of the intelligence resulted in war,…
Stock buybacks used to be illegal, once considered a form of stock manipulation until 1982 when the SEC passed rule 10b-18 legalizing the practice under Reagan’s failed trickle-down agenda. Over the past 10 years, companies on the S&P 500 have put $5.4 trillion into purchasing their own shares instead of investing in the economy and…
Can electoralism ever produce a transfer of power to the working-class in a two-party system, or are corrupt political parties that will never allow change into power, elections dominated by corporate interests, and voter suppression the problems? According to the theory of democratization, the wealthy autocrat class only willingly surrenders power in times of extreme…
“We are only as safe as the least insured person in America,” Bernie Sanders, in one tweet, succinctly captured the individualist United States’ failed safety net amidst a coronavirus pandemic with now 10,502 cases occurring while 27 million are uninsured and the working-class grocers, delivery drivers and caretakers are on the front-lines as emergency workers…
The Federal Reserve loaned $1.5 trillion to the financial system yesterday– $500 billion into short-term bank funding — and misguided critics believe the Fed exchanging cash for securities to increase liquidity and prevent a bank run is a government “bailout” and tantamount to “corporate welfare.” However, monetary policy is completely independent of fiscal policy (the…
If the federal minimum wage had kept up with the 657% increase in inflation and 176% rise in worker productivity over the past 50 years, it would be $21.72. It peaked in 1968 at $11.18 when the cost of a four-year public university was $329.00, according to National Center for Education Statistics, a manufacturing job…
Complete climate change mitigation is an alternative forecast that overlooks carbon-reduction solutions such as sequestration and nanotechnology that will be necessary to meet a 27% increase in global energy demand, provide electricity access in developing nations where 1 billion lack electricity and face barriers to renewable energy attainment. On our current baseline trajectory, renewables will…
Despite previously accepting the most refugees globally, the U.S. has a dark history of denying asylum to those fleeing human rights abuses — from the Jewish refugees in the 1930s, to the Haitians during the Duvalier dictatorship, and Salvadorans fleeing political violence in the 1980s. Many times these crises have been caused by U.S.-led regime…
With, wholesome hilarity, plenty of heart, and edifying lessons, the unsurpassed sitcom Boy Meets World raised a generation of 90s kids. Laugh-out-loud funny yet wholesome, it managed to root itself in the real world and its many adversities by organically packing valuable, relatable life lessons into each episode through the wisdom of Mr. Feeny. As…
By the year 2050, the UN estimates the global population will reach a staggering 9.8 billion. One of the biggest existential challenges facing this population projection will be the 70% rise of food demand. With most growth generating from developing nations, high-yield agricultural solutions based on food technology, sustainability, precision farming, and genetically engineered crops…
Anxiety is fueled by our negative perception, it quenches its ravenous appetite by telling us no before we even try, wraps it’s neurotic branches around our legs and paralyzes us. Anxiety denies us friendships before people have, it denies us opportunities before the jobs, admissions, internships, and clubs do. It denies us experiences in fear of the worst. Paralyzed, you live in fear of the worst instead of in hope of the best. Thereby creating a negative-feedback loop in which by protecting yourself from failure you protect yourself from happiness and an epic love, an epic career, and greatness. Here’s to combating your anxiety and low-self esteem.
From the Spanish crown to the corrupt camarilla elite, Mexico’s leaders have long kept a strangle hold on middle-class growth in Mexico. It’s the stimulus in the Mexican negative feedback loop of political turmoil – widespread poverty in the 12th world’s largest economy is the issue to end all other issues. Poverty fuels organized crime,…
The Third Reich didn’t begin with supporters of a nationalist demagogue bombing places of worship, killing worshiping Jewish people, vandalizing Jewish property, targeting political opponents, running opponents over with a car, violently attacking ethnic minorities on trains and shooting them in grocery stores, it rose in prominence through hateful rhetoric. These acts of violence conducted…
Born on the brink of a century, Generation Z is more “anxious, distrustful and downright miserable” than previous generations. We grew up through the 9/11 era, too young to understand the threat of foreign and domestic terror we’d live under, the Orwellian era of “Big Brother” we were being raised in, the adapting to catastrophic climate…
Declaring that children inhumanely separated from their asylum-seeking parents “are not innocent” is alarmingly on nazi, authoritarian levels, not on par with U.S. democratic values or the presidency. We are living through the second coming of Hitler with the Trump administration sanctioning state-violence against immigrants by planning military concentration camps for children, (unlawfully) separating migrant…
Intelligence isn’t responsible for success. Hard-work and intelligence aren’t mutually exclusive. Natural ability/talent is the myth you comfort yourself with when everyone around you works and practices harder. These enlightening ideas are ones I had to come to terms with as I wondered where all the potential I was praised for as a precocious child…
Since 2012 there have been 1,624 mass shootings in the U.S. We’re responsible for 31% of global mass shootings despite being 5% of the population, but guns are the only aspect of society we can’t seem to regulate. Since 1996, 167 of mass shooters’ weapons were obtained legally (49 were obtained illegally.) Somehow keeping guns out…
Everywhere, female professionals, leaders, and those at the top of their fields are described as “cold” and uncharismatic, degraded with slurs for the same neutral behavior men exhibit. Treading a careful line between our words and actions not carrying weight for being a woman, and being a ‘female dog’ for practicing a cultivated sternness as protection…
Why are people with the same economic interests so divided? It’s not “economic anxiety”; a vote in Iowa is the equivalent of 5 California votes. The answer is grounded in American history spanning back 300 years when racial animosity was harnessed by elite landowners to destroy class solidarity and prevent rebellions. Divided, those with the…
The Trump administration has expressed a desire to kick out 800,000 young, tax-paying professionals, army members, and college students with a 91% employment rate and no felonies or misdemeanors by rescinding DACA, to fulfill a racist utopia. To kick out young adults who had no jurisdiction over coming here. While ignoring the facts: DACA has…
Time and time again, history has proven our economy to be better under democratic presidents and, thus Keynesian economic policy. It’s no mystery as to why republican Congresses have been responsible for the last four major economic crisis in the: 1930s, 1970s, 2001, and 2008. Supply-side economics simply doesn’t work in non-Stagflation conditions. As it…
Trump offers a defense of white supremacists which injured nineteen and killed Heather Hayes at Charlottesville: “What about the alt-left that came charging at us?” The events in Charlottesville undeniably solidified what some knew and many denied – racism, moreover, nazi ideology is alive and well in America and President Trump was the awakening force….
The democratic party has been completely decimated. Democrats have moved too far right and suffered tremendous losses because of it. Sixty-nine, House seats gone, 13 Senate seats gone, and a White House gone. Nine-hundred-and-ten seats total gone under 8 years of a Democrat-controlled White House, handing over complete legislative power to the Tsar in chief….
A number of 670 worldwide protests is not normal the day after a United States President takes office. It’s not normal for over 3 million people – many women – to feel an impending threat looming over their civil rights, looming over their democracy, that they’re compelled to go organize in crowds of hundreds of…
The unknown senator from Illinois, a young black political outsider with a Muslim middle name, a passionate community leader that no one estimated would come to carry the weight of the collapsing global economy, largest amount of threats to American soil, and pivotal geopolitical challenges on his shoulders, managed to not only rectify these problems…
America you’ve been conned. Not just by any con-man, a con-man-in-chief. Not only won’t he deliver on his promises but the blueprint he’s laid out, shows that he’ll actively work against you. Did a cheeto-toned face come to mind? Sadly, your working class hero is an unhinged fraud, but you will be an architect of…
The MAGA cult has built up the false threat of immigrants as a scapegoat to distract people while Republicans gut Medicaid, expand domestic surveillance, sell $1 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia, have the 2008 financial crash cronies deregulate the swamp, destroy our democratic institutions, and get away with the biggest criminal conspiracy in U.S….
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