A shortage of affordable starter homes is slowing the market and keeping it hard to buy for first-timers. Last year the median age of first-time buyers reached a record 40 years old, while the median repeat buyer was 62: https://t.co/9FV0xzsR6W
A sobering reminder of the growing mental health challenges facing millions of Americans.
1 important opportunity for prevention is healthcare screening: nearly half of people who die by suicide visit a healthcare provider in the month before their death. https://t.co/fv4LAsrpSf
Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…
3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…
after Trump’s White House told them to…
And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.
This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO
As a journalist, how does @NPRinskeep think about mission and values?
"I'm a citizen, who would like to be informed, who would like to inform myself and inform my fellow citizens as to what's going on in the world," he recently told Pew President and CEO Sue Urahn.
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Surely it's just a coincidence that the 1789 Capital, the investment firm Trump's son Don Jr is a partner for, saw the assets it manages skyrocket from $200 million to $3.5 billion over the past year https://t.co/Cl41LCBbdn
Did remote work result in a fiscal "doom loop" for U.S. cities?
Our new research shows the answer is "not yet." But cities aren't out of the woods as budget pressures mount.
1 solution many cities are pursuing: Office-to-residential conversions. https://t.co/5G41dqa23i
The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes.
In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower.
That audit could have cost him more than $100 million.
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George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc
Makary is out. Now the US has no CDC Director, No FDA Commissioner, and no Surgeon General. And the NIH Director who is also defacto acting CDC Director never trained in Medicine. During this hantavirus outbreak the US needs steady public health leadership and a authoritative voice to the American people. There currently is no one to fill that role.
The Trump administration is rolling out a new narrative about its aid program: Aid continues! More effective than ever! Trade over aid!
And it's nonsense. Trump and Musk destroyed a program that was saving a life once every 10 seconds on average. This has been Trump's most lethal policy, and now he's doubling down by withholding vaccines from poor countries -- like a $3 vaccine against malaria, and a $4 vaccine against cervical cancer. Some 600,000 will die just from that.
"Trade over aid" sounds fine, but what it means in practice is that if Zambia doesn't agree to sell copper and cobalt to American companies, we'll withhold lifesaving aid from Zambian villagers.
Here's my column on the hollowness of Trump's attempt to dress up his destruction of humanitarian aid, after a year to assess results: https://t.co/Wfw71XjNeQ