Social Issues

Seemingly no amount of empirical evidence will ever convince progressives that raising minimum wages to artificially elevated levels is a bad idea.  Somehow the basic idea that raising the cost of a good ultimately results in lower consumption of that good just doesn't compute. 

And while roughly 50% of the country will promptly ignore it, below is yet another study, from Dr. David Macpherson of Trinity University and Dr. William Even or Miami University, pointing out the devastating consequences of minimum wage hikes.

After failing to achieve Republican agreement over healthcare reform, The Washington Post reports that while President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan both want to rewrite the tax code, they are deeply divided over how much tax relief to give the middle class.

//www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/df2287fc-12f1-11e7-bb16-269934184168

White Middle Class Dying from “Deaths of Despair”

This is what the US global corporations have done to American middle class whites by moving middle class jobs offshore. Essentially, the US global corporations are murderers.

http://dollarcollapse.com/welcome-to-the-third-world/welcome-third-world-deaths-despair/

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The FDA and Big Pharma have admitted that antidepressants increase the risk of suicide by over 800%, according to court documents in a trial against GlaxoSmithKline. The lawsuit between an Illinois widow and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) seeks to hold [...]

Authored by William Craddick via Disobedient Media,

Italian authorities are calling for monitoring of the funding of an NGO fleet bussing migrants into the EU from the North African coast after a report released the European Border and Coast Guard Agency has determined that the members of the fleet are acting as accomplices to people smugglers and directly contributing to the risk of death migrants face when attempting to enter the EU.