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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515 donors gave $4.2 billion to 2026 super PACs, Public Citizen finds
Elon Musk alone gave $445 million, about 10% of the total, according to the group's analysis of FEC data through late October.
In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here Are a Few Standouts This Election Season
“Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes.”
Rape as a Tool of Empire: Cornell, Palestine, and the Silence of Western Feminists
“In both cases, their perpetrators and assailants can leave the crime scene unscathed, with their hands clean.”
Largest U.S. corporations paid 10.4% federal tax in 2025, ITEP finds
The study of 706 companies counted 114 that paid no current federal income tax and $198 billion in subsidies from rates below 21%
McMahon plans $43,279 in office furniture as Education Dept shrinks
Senators Baldwin and Murray asked the Education secretary to cancel the purchase. The department says her current furniture does not fit its new office space.