There's actually legislation in Califomia to shorten the workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours without a reduction in pay, which would be the most transformative labor legislation in our generation, and it should be bigger news but it barely made a headline.
Took a philosophy class that covered assisted dying. One guy wanted to die because he couldn't afford his disability equipment so his life was shit and he had no independence. Apparently "why don't they just give him the equipment instead of killing him" was the wrong answer?????
I'm not even 30 and I can tell this is a different climate, a different world, to the one of my childhood. there's no excuse for the boomers/Gen Xers to blithely dismiss the fact
Yes they do. They viscerally, deeply realize it.
In fact, since their wages are still the same as when these prices existed, they realize it better than older people.
at first you google 10 words every page. then it’s more like 7 words. then 5. soon, you only google a word or two every couple of pages, and later it’s once or twice every book. building your vocabulary takes time but it also opens up a world of opportunities and understanding.
Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.
You don’t see neighborhoods like this anymore because most young parents don’t own homes. Less than 5% of mortgage holders are under 30 in major metros, and the average homeowner is over 50.
That’s why most neighborhoods or suburbs feel empty, they’re owned by older people whose kids are grown, while younger families are renting apartments & priced out of the communities.
the chain is not “struggling” — their CEO made $96 million last year.
they’re using megacorporation accounting tricks to make it seem like the business is in trouble in order to strategically fire unionized employees illegally
I don’t know, I kinda think poor people deserve the same things as everyone else and it’s weird that you think they deserve less.
Go micromanage the line item budgets of defense contractors, not the minuscule grocery budgets of poor people.