Tag: GDP
OECD: Fighting climate change will boost global GDP—failing to act will...
Tackling the climate crisis will boost economic growth, while inaction could lead to ‘permanent recession’.
Hunger crisis amid prosperity: 44 million Americans face food insecurity despite...
The juxtaposition of America's economic growth reports and the reality of widespread food insecurity shows an immediate need for a more inclusive approach to measuring prosperity.
The impediment to productivity growth: Waste that makes some people rich
In principle we want as few people employed in the health insurance industry as possible, we want people to be able to get health care, not to have insurers block their path.
GDP versus lasting growth
What matters to individuals everywhere is not GDP growth, what matters, is the creation of happy, harmonious societies.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.