That may sound pretty crazy, but thatās roughly what the minimum wage would be today if it had kept pace with productivity growth since its value peaked in 1968
There are few areas of the economy that would not be affected in a big way, either positively or negatively, by the long-term implications of global warming
The long and short is that, in our high-tech globalized economy, accountability is only something that those at the bottom have to worry about
It is essential to do everything possible to accelerate the distribution of vaccines. It is long past time that we started taking the pandemic seriously
Many people donāt seem to realize the absurdity of trying to spend China into the ground, as some would claim we did with the Soviet Union
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Instead of using government funds to pay drug companies to develop new drugs and vaccines, we reward them with a patent monopoly
The pandemic is a full out emergency that should have led us to do everything possible to stem its spread as quickly as possible
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In reversing the U.S. position, Biden went against a major lobbying campaign by the pharmaceutical industry
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