Price for a barrel of oil today: $117.59
Price for a barrel of oil in 2014: $120.45
So why are gas prices 2 dollars higher per gallon today than they were in 2014?
Because Big Oil corporations are hiking prices to rake in record-setting profits.
Could imagine one person who wrote the Constitution seeing what we have done with guns and saying “Good. That’s exactly what I meant.” I fucking doubt it.
Albert Pujols announces that this will indeed be the final year of his career. His dream of going into the Hall of Fame together with close friend Yadier Molina should be realized.
If somebody wanted to kill baseball, they're doing a pretty good job of it. I think of so many happy afternoons and evenings at the ballpark with friends and family, many long gone. It makes me livid, but even more sorrowful. How dare they ruin such a beautiful game.
Just to recap: Congress members who get $174k a year in publicly-funded pay, publicly-funded health care, publicly-funded pensions, publicly-funded travel, and unlimited publicly-funded vacation and sick time think $300 a week for unemployment is "too socialist."
Millennials hold 4.8% of all wealth. There are now 40-year-old Millennials.
At the same age, Gen X had 9% of wealth. Boomers had 21%
The largest generation in history did what the system told them to do and became the most-educated in history. Now they're the poorest in history
Walton family wealth in 2018: $146 billion
Walton family wealth in 2021: $228 billion
Walmart minimum wage in 2018: $11 an hour
Walmart minimum wage in 2021: $11 an hour
It is a moral outrage that the richest family in America pays workers at Walmart starvation wages.