Troubling decline registered in the financial health of the nation’s populace
A hypothetical $1,000 needed to cover an emergency expense is a figure that has become a quiet, persistent measure of the pulse, and according to Bankrate’s Annual Emergency Savings Report, the prognosis is clear and troubling. A majority of U.S. adults (59%) cannot comfortably cover a $1,000 emergency expense with their existing savings, a number…
The 12 richest people now own more wealth than half the world’s population
The numbers arrive without ceremony, as numbers do. They are not delivered with outrage or editorial flourish. They simply sit on the page, waiting to be reckoned with. The 12 richest people on Earth now own more wealth than 4 billion people, half the world’s population. This is not a metaphor. It is an arithmetic…
The Cost of Reckoning: Trump’s war killed three more young Americans
The names are Isabella Gonzales and Tyler James Feehan. Private Gonzales, nineteen years old, from Carrollton, Texas. First Lieutenant Feehan, twenty-five, from Ewa Beach, Hawaii. They are dead this week in Jordan, killed by an Iranian strike on a military base, and the President says this is “a very sad thing.” Well, it is. But…
The death of a warmonger: Peeling away the false piety from Lindsey Graham’s legacy
By Donovan Martin Sr. | TDS News The passing of a long-serving politician usually triggers a rehearsed choreography of grief in Washington. The press releases roll out, flags drop to half-staff, and the airwaves fill with sanitized retrospectives about a life spent in public service. But as the tributes pour in for Senator Lindsey Graham,…
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