Old-Age Poverty

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When Jimmy Flick appeared on Dana White’s Contender Series and said he was fighting to bring his family back together, he wasn’t lying. And when the flyweight decided that goal would never be realized, and that fighting would take more from him than he wanted to give, he decided to…

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America’s historic statues are being toppled and defaced. Violent riots have led to the destruction of businesses and even the physical harm of American citizens.  Carol Swain, award-winning author, host of “Be the People Podcast,” and political scientist, joins “Problematic Women” to explain why the violence is a danger to…

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Amity Shlaes graduated from Yale, became a journalist, and is now a Forbes columnist and the author of five books, including The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and her latest, Great Society, which spotlights the cracks in Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and Richard Nixon’s attempts…

While the national lockdown has left many South Africans frustrated, these tenacious teens have put their pedalling power to not only turn a profit but also to find an innovative way to give back. Cape Town, South Africa (04 June 2020) – A group of youths in Langa have started…

( Tomdispatch.com ) – These days, teaching graduating college seniors has me, as the Brits would say in the London Underground, “minding the gap.” In my case, however, it’s not the gap between the platform and the train I’m thinking of, but a couple of others: those between U.S. citizens…

Interstate 35 is a six-lane scar that runs through the middle of Austin. To the south, the highway runs all the way down to the Mexican border. To the North, it zig-zags up to Minneapolis, where, on May 25th, Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, handcuffed and asphyxiated a black…