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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
In July Kent Walker, Google’s Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, announced on Twitter that the company was expanding its education options. It was a direct salvo at America’s higher education industry. “College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn’t need a college diploma to have economic security,” Walker wrote on Google’s blog. “We need new, accessible job-training solutions—from enhanced vocational programs to online education—to help America recover and rebuild.”
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Between 1800 and 1900, industrialization gradually improved the standards of living in the West, driving down poverty and increasing access to everything from clean water to food and from education to healthcare. As standards of living rose, so did our definition of poverty change. Today, it is possible to be poor in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other developed nations while having access to a mobile phone, a sheltered home with heating and air-conditioning, an inexpensive car, a refrigerator, television, laptop, access to the internet and advanced healthcare.
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from The Nation
If three out of four Americans want to spend their final years at home, why do so many of us end up in institutional care?
Albert P. died alone in a nursing home from Covid-19. because of new safety regulations, his daughter, Gita, was not allowed to visit. In the days before his death, she told me, the nursing home staffers “spoke to my mom at length about how great my dad was doing…. [They] said, ‘He’s eating. He’s drinking water. He’s smiling. He’s doing really well.’” Gita wasn’t so sure. She said there were previous issues with her father’s care: hours spent sitting in soiled bedsheets, medication mismanagement, and missed meals. On May 6, a staff member called to tell her that Albert, 79, had died. She had never been told that her father was even ill. Then she was asked, “When are you going to come to claim the body?”
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from The Raw Story
‘Evil’: Lincoln Project hammers Donald Trump and Jared Kushner in blistering new ad
The Lincoln Project denounced President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner as “evil” in a blistering new ad. The anti-Trump conservative group premiered the ad Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” warning that Kushner, a senior White House adviser, was responsible for many of the most immoral, inhumane and corrupt policies to come out of the administration.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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