Via MauldinEconomics.com,
I’ve written about this before, but there are 10 million American males between the age of 24 and 64 who have literally dropped out of the workforce. It means that they have given up on finding a job or are simply not looking.
But, focusing on just one subset among those who are 24–64, we see that white working-class males’ labor force participation rate has dropped to 59%.
Authored by former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner viaThe Hill.com,
My grandmother used to say, “You can put truth in the river five days after a lie; truth is gone catch up.”
Well, here’s the truth: The working men and women of this country are working more jobs and more hours, and they’re still barely hanging on. Beneath those fingertips, they can feel that middle-class dream – the American dream – slipping right away from them. It’s time for President Trump to do something about it.
Via Daniel Mitchell of The Foundation for Economic Education,
When I warn about the fiscal and economic consequences of America’s poorly designed entitlement programs (as well as the impact of demographic changes), I regularly suggest that the United States is on a path to become Greece.
Because of Greece’s horrible economy, this link has obvious rhetorical appeal.
Via JrDeputyAccountant.com,
Students in California can now officially study Beyonce and earn themselves a degree by regurgitating worthless information about the popstar. Cal Poly has created a new “Beyonce studies” class via their ethnic studies department, which they say will focus on exploring politics via Beyonce’s work. “We’re mostly trying to explore three things: woman of color feminism; racism, specifically anti-black racism; and police brutality,” assistant professor and Beyonce fan Jenell Navarro said.