Thursday, December 18, 2025

Study shows wealth inequality does make a difference in how long you will live

In the UK and US, being rich can add almost a decade of healthy living to a person’s life.

Are community schools the last, best shot at addressing education inequity?

A district in the Washington, D.C., suburbs may foretell whether a transformative approach to school improvement can address longstanding opportunity gaps in education.

67 years in the peace movement

I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses the things that I have experienced during my 67 years of work in the peace movement.

A Farruggio original : The bookie joint

“This was all part of that wonderful experience of going to the races.”
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How America can lower gas prices like other countries

While you pay through the nose at the gas pump, Big Oil is lining its pockets.

Beyond our control

America in the Mid-Seventies and 2020

Home Depot makes investment of additional $1 billion in wage increases for hourly associates

This investment makes the home improvement retailer's starting wage in every U.S. market at or above $15 per hour.
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Strike! Barbara Ehrenreich calls on TSA workers to walk off job in protest of...

As 800,000 workers continue to go without pay, federal employees around the country are rising up to demand an end to the shutdown.
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Meet Alvaro Enciso, the artist placing crosses in Sonoran desert to memorialize migrant deaths

More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to...

Red Menace # ?????

Instead of having a real 'War on the Pandemic' both the Republicans and Democrats still wish to create a new and better Cold War!