Republicans are campaigning for work requirements in order to get Medicaid. According to one report in May: “Between 4.6 million and 5.2 million adults would lose Medicaid coverage in 2026 due to proposed work requirements.” Denying Medicaid does not mean people will not get healthcare if needed. It does mean, hospitals would not be paid […]
Zelensky wrote on social media: ‘It’s important to not forget the main goal, to stop the Russian war and prevent it from breaking out again in the future. ‘That’s why we’re so carefully working on every point, on every step toward peace.‘ Trump had given Ukraine a Thursday deadline to respond to the proposal, which would require […]
If there was ever a thought of returning to a simpler era, we have blown right past it. Tru_p’s crude attacks on society have vacated want took years to put in place legitimately by a Congress. The nation has lost much of its concern for citizens with the exception of a few at the upper […]
How some of the world looks at the United States and its leadership . . . “Trump says US to skip G20 summit in South Africa,” Nikkei Asia. And the reasoning? “No U.S. government official would attend the Group of 20 summit in South Africa later this month, because of what he said were “human […]
I placed the 2025 Poverty Level Guidelines on this post so readers could get an idea of what salary qualifies them for ACA subsidies. Everyone talks about 100 percent of this or 400% of that without knowing exactly what the numbers are based up the Federal Poverty Level. Hence the chart below. It stops shy […]
Such a noble guy Donald Tru_p is. Where does the list start and end with what he has done? Does the word coward fit here somewhere? November 21, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today. The current moment, he said, is “one of the […]
Artificial fluoridation of public water supplies, which reduces dental caries, tooth decay, and dental health disparities, is one of the 20th century’s great public health achievements. The idea began with the observation that communities where the natural levels of fluoride in the water is high had unusually low levels of dental decay. When I was […]
From the Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2001: “Enron, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by Nvidia Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips. As index funds sold Enron and bought Nvidia, Nvidia jumped $2.25 to $53.61 on Nasdaq.” Blowout […]
– by New Deal democrat Although the government shutdown is over, most data points – including all having to do with housing – have not been updated, which means that alternate data sources, including the NAR’s existing home sales report, have temporarily become our best look at the housing market. As per my context all this […]
Interesting topic. I believe many of us could learn a bit more about the impact we have on our environment. The COP30 climate conference was held this year. This is where world leaders try to hammer out solutions to the growing climate crisis. This year the U.S. also boycotted that gathering. Tru_p is all in […]