NYC Is Testing Guaranteed Income for Homeless Youths. Here’s How It’s Going.
A new program to give a monthly stipend and other support to homeless young people in New York City is showing promising initial results.
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“We Are Watching Critical Thinking Disappear in Real Time” Due to AI Addiction: 40% of Kids Can’t Read, Teachers Quitting in Droves
How AI and device overstimulation are producing students with severe deficiencies in reasoning and information processing skills.
Read more...‘Could I Be in Their Cabinet?’: Big Business Eyes Up Reform
How Nigel Farage’s ‘anti-establishment’ party began a love affair with lobbyists and industry leaders.
Read more...The Economist Wrecks Its Limited Credibility in Article on Dark Factories That Ignores That China Already Has a Lot of Them
Time to stop reading The Economist. A story that looks like dark factory denialism completely discredits the magazine.
Read more...Critics Say Trump ‘Joke Healthcare Plan’ Nothing But a ‘Con’ of the American People
Trump’s latest afffordabilty headfake is a sketchy healthcare scheme.
Read more...Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto and the Democrats
How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.
Read more...Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. New Orleans Center Becomes ‘Radical’ Lifeline Amid Homelessness, Drug Crises.
A New Orleans collective is a heartening example of community self help…and an indictment of income inequality and failing social programs.
Read more...Why Politicians Won’t Fix Affordability
Why affordability crisis is a symptom of predatory neoliberal practices. Concentrated wealth looks set to keep this new norm in place.
Read more...Trump DHS Post Calling for ‘100 Million Deportations’ Suggests Intent to Kick Out Nonwhite Citizens
One journalist called it “absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government.”
Read more...There Are No Free Markets
Neoliberal free market ideology was always a fantasy. But what comes next given the late stage capitalism breakdown?
Read more...How Some Courageous Super Rich Can Save Our Country from Trump’s Expanding Dictatorship!
Ralph Nader describes how the anti-Trumpers in ranks of the rich can engage in regime change.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Economic Unravelling of the Political West
Michael Hudson describes the development and progression of America’s economic parasitism.
Read more...Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans
Unpacking why the US military is so expensive and even if it were less pork-driven, would still be unduly costly for society at large.
Read more...What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?
Right wing factions are determined to implement extreme agendas. Where are they heading?
Read more...Is AI Creating Monsters?
More troubling new sightings on the AI front.
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