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Feb 16 2021
News
Bill Gates thinks Americans' lives have to change to save the world. Here's where to start.
Bill Gates doesn't expect everyone to stop eating beef to fight climate change — though it would help. So the billionaire philanthropist is investing in plant-based alternatives in hopes that one day meat-eaters won't be able to tell the difference.
Gates, who has invested in plant-based Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, acknowledged that it will be an uphill battle convincing meat-
CBS News (Online)Aug 07 2021
News
Some in U.S. Getting COVID-19 Boosters Without FDA Approval
When the delta variant started spreading, Gina Welch decided not to take any chances: She got a third, booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by going to a clinic and telling them it was her first shot.
The U.S. government has not approved booster shots against the virus, saying it has yet to see evidence they are necessary. But Welch and an untold number of other Americans have managed
Time MagazineDec 09 2020
News
What to expect from the FDA’s important COVID-19 vaccine meeting Thursday
An all-day regulatory meeting scheduled to take place Thursday is the next step toward the likely authorization of the first COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.
The Food and Drug Administration this week plans to convene a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which is made up of a group of independent medical experts, who will discuss the risks and
MarketWatchMay 27 2021
News
Coronavirus cases and deaths in the United States drop to lowest levels in nearly a year
The United States is adding fewer than 30,000 cases a day for the first time since June of last year, and deaths are as low as they’ve been since last summer. In much of the country, the virus outlook is improving.
Nearly 50 percent of Americans have received at least one vaccine shot, and though the pace has slowed, the share is still growing by about two percentage points per week.
New York Times (News)Aug 08 2022
Perspectives Blog
How the Use of Polarized Labels Masks Americans' Shared Values
Reading the daily headlines, the average American could not be blamed for believing the nation’s population consists of only two groups, at odds over every possible topic, issue, and interpretation of the country’s ideals.
Coverage of contemporary issues are riddled with opposing labels categorizing Americans into rival camps -- Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice, Gun Control versus Gun Rights
Isaiah AnthonyAug 06 2021
News
Republicans use inflation as campaign issue as Dems seek to tout Biden’s economic agenda
House Republicans plan to make the rising cost of living a key messaging point as they seek to take back the majority in 2022.
The National Republican Congressional Committee launched several targeted ads this week that tie vulnerable Democrats to inflation and excess spending.
“Inflation is a tax on every single American and is a direct result of Democrats’ reckless spending,”
Washington TimesAug 02 2021
News
How House Democrats' Campaign Chief Plans To Defy History In 2022
To retake control of the House of Representatives, Republicans need to pick up just five seats in the 2022 midterm elections. It's Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney's job to make sure that doesn't happen.
The New York Democrat and chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee told NPR that the party is hopeful an ambitious, multitrillion-dollar economic agenda trumpeted by the
NPR (Online News)May 11 2020
Opinion
Illinois families need monthly cash payments to weather COVID-19 crisis
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, nearly one million Illinois residents have filed for unemployment benefits — more than one of every 10 Illinois workers.
We know that those numbers are only a fraction of the families that have been impacted by the virus. Many more are losing income, having hours reduced, getting sick or being forced to choose between getting sick and
Jan SchakowskyMar 30 2021
Analysis
The Voter-Suppression Lie
It’s not ‘Jim Crow’ to require ID, to expand weekend voting, or to provide food and drink for the general public near polling places.
President Joe Biden is so committed to bipartisan cooperation and fact-based governance that he’s launched an ignorant and incendiary attack on the new Georgia voting law.
Biden says the new law is “Jim Crow in the 21st century” and “an un-American
Rich LowryDec 29 2020
News
Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies
They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children.
Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in her troop when she first heard rainforests were being destroyed to make way for ever-expanding palm oil plantations. On one of those plantations a continent away, 10-year-old Ima helped harvest
Associated Press