Saturday, February 23, 2019

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Congress holds first hearings on insulin, high drug prices

Donald Trump nominates man whose firm tripled price of insulin to regulate drug companies
Alex Azar would be ‘a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices’, Mr Trump said

U.S. Uninsured Rate Rises to Four-Year High

Howard Schultz would rather you not refer to billionaires as billionaires, please

'Worst tax return in a decade! He's lost my vote': Taxpayers lash out at Trump for Tax Cuts and Job Act 'scam' as IRS data shows refunds are smaller than last year

U.S. Treasury Set to Borrow $1 Trillion for a Second Year to Finance the Deficit

Florida Teacher Fired for Giving Zeros to Students Who Don’t Turn in Their Work

"Unsettled Status" - Yet Another #Brexit Nightmare

Grandmother whose entire family is settled in UK told to leave country: Exclusive: Sixty-three-year-old ordered to return to Sri Lanka and leave behind her partner, children and grandchildren because her recently retired husband ‘doesn’t earn enough’

Fox News anchors lose their minds after channel's own poll finds people want to tax the rich

Italy’s slump reflects trouble both at home and abroad: The weak economy complicates a fraught fiscal position

How big is the wage penalty for mothers?  Huge in Germany, not so big in Denmark

The problem with the Green New Deal: A deeply unserious proposal to tackle climate change

As Wasserman Schultz Exemplifies Muddled Stance, This Reminder: Medicare for All "Ain't a Slogan. It's a 94-Page Bill".  "There's only one bill in the Senate that guarantees healthcare as a right, saves families and businesses thousands a year, and reduces total national healthcare expenditures by at least $2 trillion over 10 years."

Battery Safety Could Save Your Home

The fire danger hiding in household batteries

Common Sense Fire Safety in the Home

Transportation task force considering 10 cent gas tax increase

On FDR's 137th Birthday, 200+ Democrats Unveil Bill to Expand Social Security So 'Seniors Can Retire in Dignity': "The Secure 2100 Act would increase Social Security's modest benefits for the 63 million Americans receiving them today, as well as every single American who will receive them in the future."

'Foxconn Was a Major Con': Backed by Trump Promises and $4 Billion in Subsidies, Company Admits Factory Jobs Not Coming.  "Foxconn took Wisconsin for a ride. Other states, beware the allure of the mega deal."

For Dell’s Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke: Michael Dell falsely argues that top marginal tax rates as high as 70 percent have never worked

A Huge Step Forward In The Quest To Expand Social Security: Social Security is the most universal, secure, fair and efficient source of retirement income that we have, providing a guaranteed, inflation-protected benefit that one will never outlive

For Fact’s Sake: Trump did not create the 'greatest' U.S. economy.  President Trump says his economy is the greatest in the history of the United States – but #ForFactsSake, Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi break down the recent statement from Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, and explain what we can and can’t give credit to the President for.

‘BBC policy on Brexit is not impartial’: Why is the BBC giving so much time to hardline Brexiteers, asks journalist Raymond Snoddy

Anti-Europe Parties Set to Win a Third of European Parliament Seats, Study Says

Online petition calls for selling Montana to Canada to solve national debt

Grassroots Models of a Just Future: Learning from Black Radicalism in Detroit

National debt tops $22 trillion for first time in U.S. history

QATAR SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO LEARN IT ACCIDENTALLY BAILED OUT JARED KUSHNER: Doha insists it was an “unwitting” partner in the deal.

Big Pharma Is America’s New Mafia: Pharmaceutical companies have more power than ever, and the American people are paying the price—too often with our lives.

How Democrats plan to shrink the gender pay gap: The Paycheck Fairness Act is ambitious, and obvious.

More than 7 million Americans are seriously behind on their car payments: "More and more people are buying too much car for what they can afford," said one consumer advocate.

The Medicare-for-All Trap: Most issues will strongly favor the Democrats in 2020. Taking away people’s health insurance is an exception.

The Abortion Debate: And is Medicare for All even possible?

What Kamala Harris’ backtrack means for Medicare for all

'Medicare for All' is not a fantasy

Emigrating From the U.S. May Be the Only Way To Afford Eldercare: A nursing home for my mother in Germany would cost less than half of what she pays in Sacramento.

A Tax the Rich Can’t Avoid: New income is only a fraction of their fortunes—we need to target their wealth.

Kamala Harris Didn’t Just Flip-Flop on Medicare for All

We can figure out universal coverage without Medicare-for-All

Real life 'Shawshank Redemption': Ex-con robs bank, hoping to be sent back to prison

Britain's best chance of revenge for its lost Brexit is to remain in the EU

India Can’t Afford to Guarantee Income: For all the talk of helping the poor in the next budget, politicians would do better to make the breakthrough reforms that would create jobs.

Why everybody loves Universal Basic Income: The Budget has promised an assured income to farmers, Rahul Gandhi a minimum income guarantee, and Sikkim a universal basic income by 2022. Back in 2016-2017, the Economic Survey said UBI was an idea whose time was ripe for discussion. As that talk picks up in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, The Indian Express parses the debate, starting from India’s only two pilot projects

Fake News About Abortion in Virginia: No, Democrats aren’t trying to legalize infanticide.

Democrats Overplay Their Hand on Abortion: In New York and Virginia, state governments are working to loosen restrictions on late-term abortion—and giving the anti-abortion movement an opportunity.

It’s Both Difficult and Incredibly Important to Make the Case for Third-Trimester Abortions

Most Americans Support Increasing Taxes on the Wealthy: Poll

National Tracking Poll #190202, February 01-02, 2019, Crosstabulation Results

'Superbug gene' found in one of the most remote places on Earth

Bernie Sanders Has a Plan to Tax the Rich That’s About As Radical as What Teddy Roosevelt Proposed: When the senator proposes a 77 percent tax on the value of an estate above $1 billion, he’s talking about renewing American values.

TRUMP IS REFUSING TO PAY CONTRACTORS FOR WORK DURING THE SHUTDOWN: The president has a long history of stiffing people who work for him.

U.S. Healthcare Ranked Worst In The Developed World

Americans are finally finding out they got royally screwed by the Republican tax scam

US government says ‘pink slime’ can now be called ground beef: With the reclassification, you may now be purchasing ground beef with added 'ground beef'

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: We're Headed for Oligarchy: Robert Solow on powerful families’ threat to democratic institutions.

De Blasio rips into AOC’s Amazon opposition: Working people ‘want jobs’

It takes more than 7 years to save up for a down payment: Down payment savings time has increased in most markets.

Unemployment Looks Like 2000 Again. But Wage Growth Doesn’t.  Trying to solve an economic mystery.  And people long thought to be out of the labor force permanently are coming back in.

Why Aren't Wages Keeping Up? It's Not The Economy, It's Management

Fed Signals End of Interest Rate Increases: Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman, said the Fed would be “patient” in evaluating the health of the economy given “global economic and financial developments and muted inflation pressures.”

This Is What It Sounds Like When Fed Doves Cry: Jerome Powell makes about as drastic a reversal as a central banker could possibly pull off within six weeks. Plus Brazil versus Mexico, and Brexit follies.

The Fed Apologizes: Powell continues his rehabilitation tour, and markets applaud.

Fed having a deep effect despite crisis conditions nowhere to be seen

Oops! An Awkward Jobs Report for the Fed: The Federal Reserve said the case for raising rates had weakened. Then came the jobs report.

This is what happens when you try to sue your boss

Foreign Steel Keeps Flowing Into U.S. Despite Tariffs: Soaring prices fatten profits of domestic producers, but foreign makers’ share of market remains significant

Steelmakers Find Strength to Expand Under Tariffs: Nucor, Steel Dynamics, others expect efficient mills to make profits even if prices fall

Trump welcomes new UK-US deal, promising to 'very, very substantially' increase trade after Brexit
US president praises 'very good trading relationship' after agreement to continue terms of EU deal

The World's Richest People Lost $511 Billion in 2018

1 in 3 middle-class families struggle with financial insecurity

US antitrust enforcement falls to slowest rate since 1970s: Drop in criminal cases brought by DoJ in Trump era despite calls for tougher action

Hemming and Hawing: Maternity Leave.  According to one poll, 93 percent of Americans agree that mothers should receive some paid leave. So why is the U.S. one of the only industrialized nations without institutional support for mothers?

Free the Free Press from Wall Street Plunderers: Local ownership of the press matters, as some 1,300 of our towns have learned after Wall Street’s corporate demigods of greed swept in to seize their paper, gut its journalistic mission, and devour its assets.

How "Constitutional Economics" Can Restore Order, Justice, and Faith in Government.  Why It Matters: Recommendations for what needs to be recognized and enforced by U.S. judges and lawyers, not only here in the United States, but wherever the U.S. has an economic presence.

Smart Ass Cripple: FDA Needs to Stop the Electric Shocking of People.  Only one place uses these devices, and it uses them to control the behavior of people with autism and other disabilities.

Six Ways Betsy DeVos Gets Teachers’ Unions Wrong: DeVos’s antagonism toward unions shows not only her disrespect for teachers but also how her animosity toward organized teachers warps her understanding of issues.

UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME DEFINED

'I will never say no': D.C. restaurant goes viral for 5-year tradition of feeding the homeless

After Winning a $15 Minimum Wage, Fast Food Workers Now Battle Unfair Firings

The 116th Congress can improve Medicare and Social Security

Democrats move to prevent foreclosures, evictions on unpaid federal workers: 22 Democrats introduce legislation to protect federal workers

Building More and Doing Better

Expert panel advises against surgery for shoulder pain

With the passing of Harvard scholar Roderick McFarquhar, is deeper learning dying?

Charlie Baker is not punishing drug company success by challenging costs

Emergency Planners Warned Of No-Deal Food Shortage Risks – Just One Month Before Brexit: The government has written to groups across the country asking them to prepare for "worst case scenario".

The border wall stalemate is nothing next to Britain’s Brexit crisis and what it reveals about Western democracies’ populist revolts: Richard M. Perloff (Opinion)

Once Militantly Anti-Abortion, Evangelical Minister Now Lives 'With Regret'

Memoirist: Evangelical Purity Movement Sees Women's Bodies As A 'Threat'

First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis'

'Reluctant Psychonaut' Michael Pollan Embraces The 'New Science' Of Psychedelics

Memoirist Retraces Her Journey From Survivalist Childhood To Cambridge Ph.D.

How 'Bad Medicine' Dismisses And Misdiagnoses Women's Symptoms

‘This One Here Is Gonna Kick My Butt’—Farm Belt Bankruptcies Are Soaring: Trade disputes over agriculture add pain to low commodity prices that have been grinding down American farmers for years

Green New Deal fears: Will AOC rustle our cows?

Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) pushed back against a Senate resolution to slash the amount of time allotted for debate and consideration of all judicial and most executive-branch nominees from 30 post-cloture hours to two post-cloture hours.

Federal Watchdog Issues Scathing Report On Ed Department's Handling Of Student Loans

When Teens Threaten Violence, A Community Responds With Compassion

Anger, Confusion Over Dwindling Refunds. Is Trump's Tax Plan To Blame?

A Neuroscientist Explores The Biology Of Addiction In 'Never Enough'

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Is Officially Declared Dead

‘It’s like Pompeii again if Pompeii voted for the volcano’ – US show takes down Brexit

Brexit causing ‘palpable decline’ in UK influence at the UN: Diplomats suggest Britain’s leverage on world stage will be weaker after EU departure

Brexit III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Filthy rich, owing no taxes

'BLACK MIRROR' IN CHINA? 1.4 BILLION CITIZENS TO BE MONITORED THROUGH SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM

'We're all passengers in a billionaire hijacking' says the critic who has the world's richest people buzzing

Britain already disengaging from Europe as UK government pulls funding from unique European research institute

Donald Trump nominates man whose firm tripled price of insulin to regulate drug companies: Alex Azar would be ‘a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices’, Mr Trump said

Politicians must stop sugaring the pill on hard Brexit choices: Britain faces mission impossible in trying to get good trade deals and talk of the benefits of WTO terms is a fantasy, argues Sir Ivan Rogers

Could A Good Night's Sleep Protect You From Heart Disease?

DoD and civilian doctors, pharmacies now sharing information about opioid prescriptions, watching for abuse

VA North Texas eliminates liver tumors, returns patients home the same day

The simple – and complicated – task of shoveling snow

Heart valve diseases

Stroke Information Page

Personal finance, taxes, etc.

Personal finance, time shares, etc.

Smart Ways to Spend Your Tax Refund

What happens if my SSDI or SSI claim is denied?

Scam Alert: Look Out for Too Good to be True Sales

Scam Alert: Don’t Pick Up for Fake Medicare Calls

NRV Agency on Aging warns of Medicare scam

Tax Forms.  For 2018, you will no longer use Form 1040A or Form 1040EZ as you may have in the past. Instead, you will use the redesigned Form 1040, which now has six new numbered schedules in addition to the existing schedules such as Schedule A.  To download your forms, go to https://apps.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/formsPublications.html

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