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Housing rule would make it harder to fight discrimination

After “see something, say something,” authorities need to do something

Education funding: The House must repair the Senate’s damage

Christine Lagarde: The most powerful woman in the global economy.  As she leaves her position as head of the International Monetary Fund to take over as head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde tells John Dickerson about the risk of a global recession

Brexit: Johnson sends unsigned letter asking for delay, and second arguing against it
PM sends to Donald Tusk a photocopy of the request required by Benn Act, with a conflicting view in a second letter

British pensioners in Europe struggle to make ends meet, committee told: Retirees suffer ‘real hardship’ and fear Brexit will impoverish them further, says Jeremy Morgan QC

10 Ways Your First Year of Teaching is Different from Your Tenth Year

Excess Teacher Responsibilities are Stealing Bonding Time with Students

Bob Geldof says we are living in a world led by “thugs” not leaders: “Younger people retreat to the certainties of the strong man, the admiration for thugs like Putin, fools like Trump. But these people are not leaders. They are not strong. They are weak."

The forgotten Muslim heroes who fought for Britain in the trenches:  The stories of the 2.5 million Muslims who travelled to Europe to fight for the allies during the first world war are finally being told

We've been picking over Johnson's latest misleading statements. We've found 6 new porkies and 6 new fishy promises - from yesterday alone. Here's a thread exposing them

British journalists have become part of Johnson’s fake news machine: It’s chilling. From the Mail, The Times to the BBC and ITN, everyone is peddling Downing Street’s lies and smears. They’re turning their readers into dupes.

The US posted a $234 billion budget deficit last month, the biggest one-month deficit in history

SATIRE: UK the only remaining EU member after other nations save time by agreeing to form breakaway ‘European Alliance’

Photo of exhausted nurse goes viral: ‘Can we just give it up for nurses for a minute?’

Avoiding Brexit Altogether Would Give U.K. $106 Billion Boost

The ‘Public Option’ on Health Care Is a Poison Pill: Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy.

Enter the Mind of a Teacher and Feel the Weight We Carry

U.S. Travel Ban Disrupts The World's Largest Brain Science Meeting

Charlie Baker’s health care bill could make a real difference

Think of health care as a car … on the side of the road … with its hood up.

Restoring the Korean Economic Miracle

Bozeman candidate advocates for public housing, government bank

LETTER: Aurora candidates pitching a local ‘muni bank’ make dollars and sense

Public banking movement reaches Montana and builds in Colorado

The Disaster of Negative Interest Rates

Ellen Brown: The disaster of negative interest rates

The answer to helping the unbanked exists on every Main Street: the post office.  Five reasons why postal banking needs to make a comeback in the United States.

Public Banking Made Easy - Public Banking Institute

By its own admission, FDA has a lot to learn about the safety of e-cigarettes

Be Heart bill protects civil rights in the workplace

Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered: The meaning behind this pithy maxim.

This One Weird Trick Makes Economies More Fair!  A wealth tax is one of the most progressive government levies, falling entirely on the extremely wealthy.

How Abortion Pills Will Shape Our Future: The Supreme Court may make it harder to get to an abortion clinic, but thanks to drugs, coat hangers can remain a thing of the past.

How Boris Johnson Fell For America: Britain’s prime minister is a lifelong admirer of the US. How will Brexit change his—and his country’s—special relationship?

The Confidence Game: How Silicon Valley broke the economy.

Froma Harrop: Which America speaks to Hong Kong?

Trump’s Japan Deal Another Win for Global Meat Companies: The Trump administration is building quite a record of favoritism for these multinationals that now rivals its well-known allegiance to the fossil fuel industry.

How Fossil Fuels Pollute STEM Education. Polluters lost the fight on climate science, so they’re spending money on something else: false solutions.

My Patients Deserve Medicare for All: If my patient needs a heart procedure, we should decide that together — not some insurance company.

How Far are Americans Willing to Go to Overthrow the Power of Big Pharma: No industry is more unpopular than the pharmaceutical industry.

Why the Private Health Insurance Industry Faces an Existential Crisis: A former health insurance executive says the moment the insurance industry fears most has arrived.

US Government Lets Employers Target Union Organizers with Impunity

Looking For Ways To Tackle The 'Death Gap'

Donald Trump’s Plan for Winning the China Trade War: Lying

If We Want Democracy Back, We Must Undo the Attack on Middle Class Launched by Reagan: So long as the governments of America and other countries are captives of oligarchs and big corporations, citizens will continue to drift toward hard-right faux “populist” politicians.

Wall Street Is Killing Local Newspapers: We can’t put a price tag on our free press — but unless we stop them, predatory investors can.

'Unacceptable': Family Farms, Ag Advocates Hit Back After Sec Perdue Says Small Dairy Farms Destined to Die.  "Five years of plunging farm prices, increasing bankruptcies, and climbing suicide rates were not discussed by Perdue. His message to them was basically, stop whining, your demise is inevitable."
Vaping: Now That We Know, or Derailing Addiction from the Start

HUMAN INTERESTBaby Oliver saved in U.S. after UK doctors said his heart couldn’t be fixed

Eliminate nonmedical exemptions to vaccines, and strengthen data collection

Could Betsy DeVos Cost Trump the Election?  The president needs to win Michigan again, but many of his supporters there hate the education secretary.

Oligarch of the Month: The Sacklers.  Since their company, Purdue Pharma, released OxyContin in 1996, almost half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses.

PICTURING THE FUTURE: How a shadowy consortium controls the evolution of emoji

The Transformation of Condé Nast: How a media mogul defined class and invented the modern magazine

The Gripping Class Horror of Parasite: Bong Joon-ho’s shapeshifting new film is a thriller about global inequality and resentment.

The Remedies Of National Geographic

National Geographic Book Is A ‘Natural’ Disaster

Quackery At WHO: A Chinese Affair

Magic Waters

Laser Acupuncture: High-Tech Placebo

The New Phrenology

Unskeptical: Indian Scientists’ Opinions Of Ayurvedic Medicine

Suing For Science

Countering The Pseudoscience In Psychotherapy For The Young

Washington Monthly’s 2019 annual College Guide and Rankings

America’s Affordable Elite Colleges 2019: Which selective schools give high-achieving, non-wealthy students a break—and which break their bank accounts?

America’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges 2019: Our one-of-a-kind list of schools that help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.

Putting Work Study to Work: The aid program is underfunded and underappreciated. Here’s how to unleash its potential.

Things Are Looking Up: Uniting to Explore Our Universe

HUMANISM 101 | The Human Mind Unbound

As measles deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo top 4,000, UNICEF rushes medical kits to health centers and vaccinates thousands more children

Insurers drop fire coverage for 350,000 California residents

How A.I. could help treat depression: A new study is using artificial intelligence to stop the trial-and-error process of prescribing antidepressants to patients. Two-thirds of patients with depression do not respond to their first prescription. Dr. Jay Faber joins CBSN to explain how artificial intelligence tracks brain activity and how patients may benefit.

10 Things Teachers Want That Have Nothing to Do With Money

Students called suicide hotline listed on their school ID cards; it connected them to a sex hotline

GARTH BROOKS AND TRISHA YEARWOOD BUILD 21 HOMES IN NASHVILLE: The superstar couple teamed up with President Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity.

Measles Erases 'Immune Memory' of Other Illnesses: Study adds to evidence that measles infection causes immune amnesia

Conestoga Huts for the homeless a solution for the Northwest?

What happened when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came face to face with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: The New York politician has exposed the firm’s shameless disregard for the truth

The ‘Political Anarchist’ Behind Britain’s Chaos: Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s Rasputin, is happy to watch the country blow up if he gets what he wants.

Full Valedictory Speech Ian C Lucas MP

Wave of scandal: The Tory party is becoming a sewer

Has Brexit really divided Britain?  Few areas of the UK voted overwhelmingly for either Leave or Remain

Why I empty-chaired the Tory Party Chairman

UK inquiry was warned of Russian infiltration, leaked testimony shows

Ian Lucas | Newsnight | Fri 8 Nov 2019

The lies, falsehoods and misrepresentations of Boris Johnson and his government.

‘We shouldn’t have let the bedroom tax through…We absolutely got it wrong on tuition fees’- Swinson: Jo Swinson said she has “learnt from mistakes” from her time in government

The outside world will bring down China’s Great Firewall: The Great Firewall of China is crumbling. And, as with the Berlin Wall 30 years ago, pressure from outside is going to accelerate the process. 

A drug loophole was closed. Why isn’t it being enforced?  As the opioid epidemic continues to rage and kill, it is unthinkable that the federal agencies tasked with implementing the STOP Act failed to meet the requirements set by the law.

OPINION: 'We moved to Spain in good faith and we shouldn't lose that right'

Huge delivery of Champagne arrives at Tory conference as Boris Johnson's pals discuss poverty: Dozens of bottles of Pol Roger arrived in Manchester as MPs gathered to discuss homelessness and poverty

Dates and deadlines for 2020 health insurance

2020 Obamacare Open Enrollment Dates by State

2020 open enrollment: 10 essential facts

Ticket to Work Resources for Veterans from Social Security Administration
Join us on Nov. 20, 2019 for our next WISE webinar

Economist: Warren is right. Her Medicare for All plan won't raise taxes on the middle class

America’s yield curve is no longer inverted: So, no need to worry about recession? Hmm, maybe

Security questions for Jeremy Corbyn: A Labour government would present a radical challenge to Britain’s global alliances

How Estonia became the drug-overdose capital of Europe: The country is in the grip of a deadly opioid epidemic

Revisiting the euro’s north-south rift: Income gaps remain, but cross-border flows are more balanced

Boris Johnson abandons bakery visit after protesters gather outside: ‘There were lots of crusties there – more crusty than your loaves,’ prime minister says, explaining his no-show

Briton in France stands against Boris Johnson

Trump proposes big cuts to health programs for the poor, elderly and disabled

Colorado Is Using $3 Million From Marijuana Tax To Provide Food And Housing For The Homeless

Woman calls Boris Johnson an a*****e moments after meeting him

BREAKING: Boris Johnson flew to Italy without his security detail & met ex-kGB agent 2 days after NATO summit to discuss Russia sanctions.

Trump Paves Way for Russia to Be Sole Asbestos Supplier to U.S.

Farm bankruptcies jump to highest level since 2011 as Trump’s tariffs bite

The UK Is Home To 73% Of Europe's Millionaire Bankers

FIRTASH: How the Trump Impeachment Scandal Leads back to British Brexiters

The Tories’ Trump-style immigration policy is already horrific – now the devastation will be unprecedented: Migrants are people. The Conservatives may struggle to recognise that, but whether it’s a matter of health, housing or general quality of life, we need to respect and protect their rights

Boris Johnson's government admits it has no plans to carry out an economic assessment of his Brexit deal

Cognitive decline and social isolation common reasons for elderly financial abuse

Debunking the myth that Tories are better than Labour with the economy: Contrary to widespread perceptions, the economy performs no worse under Labour than under the Tories—by some measures it does much better.

U.S. income inequality at highest level in 50 years, economic gap growing in heartland: Six states with the biggest yearly gains in inequality were primarily in the heartland — Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire and New Mexico.

China now owns 10 times the amount of Australian land it did last year

REPUBLICAN HOUSE MEMBERS THINK A $450K SALARY IS MIDDLE CLASS

China now has control on Vital Utilities in the Philippines for Water, Gas, Electricity,& AFP Telco

Dear Britain… Love, Ireland. Your open letters to UK voters

Ann Widdecombe can't give this caller a benefit for leaving the EU

Tories set up fake Labour manifesto website as election disinformation spree continues: Conservatives pay Google to promote labourmanifesto.co.uk website in search results

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