The answer is not a federal wage, nor is it $15 an hour. The United States is one of the few countries where the minimum wage is determined by lawmakers, in many others, economists bear that responsibility based on a formula.  Over the last 60 years or so, the United States has raised its minimum... Continue Reading →

Yet again, Trump is threatening to fire someone in his cabinet. The victim this time is Inspector General Michael Atkinson. This is because Atkinson found the whistleblower complaint about Ukraine to be accurate. How prolific.  Queen Maggie Haberman writes that firing the Inspector General would be detrimental to Trump’s case. Similarly to the firing of... Continue Reading →

Image: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/howard-county-school-redistricting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share A recent plan to desegregate schools in Columbia, Maryland, a suburb that prides itself on inclusion, has sparked heated debate and protests.  This article from the New York Times gave a lot of space for those against using bussing to integrate schools in Columbia to discuss their reasoning. The article provided instances of... Continue Reading →

An article published on November 8th, 2019 by the New York Times discussed the increase in patients being sued by hospitals for not paying hospital bills; this increase is linked to higher deductible rates and less insurance coverage in recent years, which has led to hospitals losing money.  Seeing this post made me think of... Continue Reading →

Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders has raised upwards of $10 million dollars a week after launching his presidential campaign. The average contribution of those donations were $27. Sanders is among many to vocally rebuke Super PAC money, he is one to consistently celebrate that much of his donations come from small donors. Services like Actblue, make... Continue Reading →

When we as a society had been presented with the mere notion of “fake news,” some of us laughed, some of us brushed it off as President Trump solidified to Twitter to be his main mode of communication with the American people. Little did we know, we had already been victims cyber terrorism. Between Facebook... Continue Reading →

The Barbara Barnett piece discusses an honest reality that I had not been exposed to:  Mothers killing their children.  https://www.islesoftheleft.org/on-regretting-motherhood/ Barnett outlines that mothers are seen to be these beings that, more often than not, have a "natural" ability and instinct to nurture  children and guide them. However,that's a narrative that fails to account the... Continue Reading →

As we're sitting in the midst of an almost impeachment, I've been thinking that there is no way Trump can screw us over more than he has in the last few weeks. Boy, was I wrong. The Trump Administration released that they are starting the official process of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. For... Continue Reading →

The Black Lives Matter movement has been successful at drawing attention, albeit not necessarily good attention. A study done by Joy Leopold and Myrtle Bell looked at various mainstream newspapers to see how they covered BLM protests. Insert the protest paradigm.  To make their work easier and help push out articles faster, journalists classify articles... Continue Reading →