Monthly Archives: August 2015

Health Care Compromises

It is no secret that most people throughout our country are dissatisfied with the state of health care in America. Our health care system has been a mess for decades. We pay more for our health care system than any other country in the world, but Americans have worse health outcomes than nearly any other […]

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The 1% and Education

In a blog post last week, I linked to an article in the Washington Post called “Teacher: Why ‘I just can’t work in public education anymore’.” In this article, which was shared widely online last week, a former public school teacher details the reasons that she feels she can no longer work in public education. […]

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Trump is Costing Us

Once again, the news cycle is obsessing over Donald Trump. This time, the Republican made the mistake of responding to a question about his history of sexist treatment of women by aggressively attacking the female debate moderator with sexist comments. So, of course, that is all the media will talk about for the next week, […]

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Reinvest in America

Many of the current crop of presidential hopefuls have been talking about the economy. The Democrats like to talk about how their party saved the economy, the Republicans like to talk about how the Democrats have ruined the economy for the past six years, and all of them love to talk about how they are […]

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