10 Years a Detainee: Why Some Spend Years on Rikers, Despite Right to Speedy Trial
Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some been there for six, eight and even 10 years?
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Economists Fear Fed Minutes Show Central Bank Bent on ‘Unleashing Mass Unemployment’
The Fed confirms its true colors of being in the business of disciplining labor, whether it makes sense of not.
Read more...Failing CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky Makes Confession, Announces “Shake Up” via Committee When She Should Resign
Rochelle Walenksy makes an all-too-obvious gambit to save her spot at the CDC. But the very initiative proves she should resign.
Read more...A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions
More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.
Read more...Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
Community schools appear to be solving the long-standing education gap between the affluent and the less privileged.
Read more...Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows
How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.
Read more...Germany to Keep Three Nuclear Plants Going Past Old Shut-Down Date to Alleviate Energy Crunch
Germany looks a wee bit desperate as it suddendly moves to keep three nuclear reactors in producion that were set for shutdown
Read more...Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills
Bad enough when private equity hurts customers and communities. Here they stole from employees by defaulting on health insurance
Read more...Does Nature Have Rights? Victorian Polymath John Ruskin Thought So
Jeffrey Spear discusses how the insights of John Ruskin can help create a new paradigm for protecting the planet.
Read more...Stagflation: From Tragedy to Farce
Half a century after the 1970s’ stagflation, economies are contracting as prices rise again.
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80% of US Voters Across Party Lines Support Expanding Social Security
Social Security is so popular that an overwhelming majority wants more. But that’s apparently one of the nice things we can’t have.
Read more...“Housing Recession”: NAHB. Homebuilders Cut Prices as Traffic of Prospective New-House Buyers Plunges, Cancellations Spike
Housing sales and prices continuine on their grim slide.
Read more...More US Eyepoking of China with New Congresscritter Visit to Taiwan; What Will China Do Next?
The US is still escalanting with China over Taiwan. And China most assuredly is keeping score.
Read more...For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
Inflation is putting families with big ongoing medical costs under terrible stress.
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