Tag: life expectancy
Latest CDC data exposes U.S. healthcare’s fatal flaw: Profit over patients
As new CDC data lays bare, the U.S. grapples with a healthcare paradox: towering costs yet shorter lifespans. Explore how America's for-profit model is failing its people, spotlighting the urgent plea for Medicare for All.
‘Just horrific’: Pandemic fuels steepest decline in US life expectancy since...
"U.S. life expectancy at birth for 2020, based on nearly final data, was 77.3 years, the lowest it has been since 2003."
Income Inequality Is a Health Hazard—Even for the Rich
A public health researcher explains why life expectancy in the United States is falling, and it has to do with income inequality rising.
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Progressive legacy triumphs as Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona primary
A clash of legacy versus digital insurgency, this Arizona primary uncovers deep intra‑party tensions around candidate experience, social media influence, and the future of democratic progressiveness.
Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’
I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.
Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza must be in ruins for decades,’ as airstrike kills children seeking...
Keeping millions of Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children, living in ruins for decades is not the sort of goal announced by sane, civilized, ordinary European politicians.
Trump’s about-face on Ukraine
Trump might be a pushover, a chicken hawk, a TACO. But in Ukraine, Putin has found his own unmovable object.
The reality behind JP Morgan’s ‘net zero’: Billions flow to Big Oil
JP Morgan’s “green” funds have funneled over $4 billion to the fossil-fuel majors, betraying the firm’s promises and undermining efforts to achieve net zero.