If you are 52 years old or younger, you might want to store money under your mattress. A bleak 2019 report by the Social Security Board of Trustees found retirement funds on a path to depletion by 2035, forcing Congressional lawmakers to make swift and bold decisions on the fate of the nearly $3.0 trillion …
Entitlement Now: A Policymaker’s Game Plan to Social Security Reform Read More »
To evaluate the inter-agency response to the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs issued a hearing on March 5, 2020 to inquire on the nation’s protocol for biological disasters. The hearing was chaired by Senator Ronald Johnson (R-WI) and ranking member Gary C. Peters (D-MI), who introduced two …
Trouble Ahead: Latest Senate Hearing Exposes Major Setbacks to Pandemic Preparations Read More »
As obesity-related illnesses are speculated to strain up to one-fifth of the national healthcare expenditure, federal agencies have spent decades embarked to reform the American diet through social and economic intervention. Among low-income consumers, the risk is exacerbated by tight budget constraints favoring cheap, high-calorie foods. But what if you can get paid to eat …
In a plan to take back the White House, a Las Vegas debate stage was encroached by six Democratic hopefuls knocking their opponents’ political competency while promoting party unity. The scandal during the now immaterial February debate did not lie between policy differences or character assassinations. It was what most of the candidates were united …
Democratic Primary 2020: Mutually Assured Destruction? Read More »
The 2016 primary season was an enormous debacle. It launched an ideological civil war between party progressives and moderates after Clinton received a 350 superdelegate advantage over her opponents before the race started. Tom Perez’s bold stance to reform the Democratic National Committee back in August 2018 was, among disenfranchised Bernie Sanders supporters, a step …
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