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      Elizabeth Warren Versus Joe Biden

      Elizabeth Warren Versus Joe Biden

      Is Biden’s not-very-progressive record a huge mismatch for the current political moment?

      Ruth Conniff
      Mar 21, 2019

      Joe Biden's almost-certain decision to jump into the 2020 presidential race means that the top three candidates for the White House in 2020 are all white men over the age of 75--Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump.

      There's something wrong with this picture in a political era defined by #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and a massive backlash against the White Man's Last Stand presidency of Donald Trump.

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      How the US Can Prevent a Fire Like Grenfell Tower

      How the US Can Prevent a Fire Like Grenfell Tower

      At least 80 people are missing and presumed dead after a devastating fire in Grenfell Tower, a high-rise apartment building in London. It's the deadliest fire in Britain in more than a century.

      Sarah Edelman
      Miriam Pierson
      Jun 30, 2017

      At least 80 people are missing and presumed dead after a devastating fire in Grenfell Tower, a high-rise apartment building in London. It's the deadliest fire in Britain in more than a century.

      This fire is, unequivocally, a tragedy--particularly because it was so preventable. Investigators say the root causes were lax regulation and an unwillingness to invest in basic safety features. Residents had repeatedly warned that their living conditions were dangerous, pointing out that the building didn't have fire alarms, sprinklers, or a fire escape, and there was only one stairway for people to get out and one road for firefighters to get in.

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      President Trump's War On Children

      President Trump's War On Children

      This draconian budget erodes the security of our nation's future

      Marian Wright Edelman
      May 29, 2017

      Our nation's budget should reflect our nation's professed values, but President Trump's 2018 Federal Budget, "A New Foundation for America's Greatness," radically does the opposite. This immoral budget declares war on America's children, our most vulnerable group, and the foundation of our nation's current and future economic, military and leadership security. It cruelly dismantles and shreds America's safety net laboriously woven over the past half century to help and give hope to the 14.5 million children struggling today in a sea of poverty, hunger, sickness, miseducation, homelessness and disabilities. It slashes trillions of dollars from health care, nutrition and other critical programs that give poor babies and children a decent foundation in life to assure trillions of dollars in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and powerful corporations who do not deserve massive doses of government support.

      The cruel Trump budget invests more in our military -- already the most costly in the world -- but denies vulnerable children and youths the income, health care, food, housing and education supports they need to become strong future soldiers to defend our country. Seventy-one percent of our 17- to 24-year-olds are now ineligible for military service because of health and education deficits. It seeks to build a wall to keep immigrants out by slashing supports for those inside who can be counted on to help staff our businesses and factories and other services. This budget creates more inequality and less opportunity for those struggling to make ends meet and is a grave injustice.

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