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  • COVID-19 Is a Nursing Home Pandemic

    COVID-19 Is a Nursing Home Pandemic0

    Over the last week, many governors have reinstituted coronavirus policy implementations which had been in various phases of cessation. Why? This is because of an alleged “spike” in new COVID-19 infections. Other states have abbreviated their phased lifting of lockdowns. This is despite the fact that current U.S. deaths from COVID-19 are now 90 percent

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  • Your First Job: Real Costs of the Minimum Wage

    Your First Job: Real Costs of the Minimum Wage0

    With midterm elections approaching, ideological battlegrounds are being staked out — and few carry greater promise of enticing voters than minimum wage policy. Recent political developments in this area include repurposing the minimum wage as a “living wage”, conflating and popularizing the notion of a “Universal Basic Income”, and a “corporations can afford it”/”fight for $15” narrative. The latter is the

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  • Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the $3500 Suit

    Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the $3500 Suit0

    Few observers missed Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’ interview and photoshoot last week in which the rising, avowedly-socialist NY Congressional candidate wore a $3500 suit and shoes while hobnobbing with construction workers. (Such are the perils of outspoken class warfarism; a thing like that tends to be noticed.) Her opponents lambasted her as just another in a long line of

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