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Interest rates for the people, UK

jeudi 21 mars 2024 à 06:23

The UK economy and low-wage workers are suffering from the high interest rates.

The ostensible reason for high rates — to control inflation — was foolish because the cause of inflation was the greed of the rich. The increased rates enabled companies to gouge and be even more greedy.

Banks upping global meat and dairy

jeudi 21 mars 2024 à 06:23

*Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in production [of meat and dairy].*

UN climate plan discludes meat eating

jeudi 21 mars 2024 à 06:23

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but it does not include eating less meat.

Social Security and upcoming election

jeudi 21 mars 2024 à 06:22

Social Security has a long-term fiscal shortfall because its last reform, in the 1980s, did not reckon with the increased inequality of incomes in the US since then.

The simple fix is to make rich people pay the same share of their high business income that the rest of us pay out of our smaller incomes.

Urgent: Fake abortion clinics

mercredi 20 mars 2024 à 11:52

US citizens: call on state governments to stop funding phony abortion services ("crisis pregnancy centers").

If you take any advice from a "crisis pregnancy centers", you're likely to find yourself having a cry, sis ;-{.