"America’s quest for global dominance primarily serves the interests of giant corporations that suppress labor movements worldwide.
While US politicians from both parties cover it in euphemism, the proper role they see for the working class in foreign policy is as fodder for factories and battlefields, valorized in rhetoric to obscure their exploitation.
“We’re gonna get yelled at to stay in our lane, and focus on our jobs or whatever, but we’ve waited for the Democrats forever to become this great institution of working people and peace throughout the world, and they suck. We no longer can trust the Democrats,” Vicente said."
The Children's Partnership has released a community outreach toolkit, ALL IN to Keep Kids Covered, designed to help schools, child care providers, and other child and family champions share information about the Medi-Cal renewal process with families.
📝 Recent research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health links the 2021 Child Tax Credit expansion to significant improvements in adult mental health.
Among the lowest-income adults, anxiety symptoms improved by more than 13% and depressive symptoms improved by more than 9%, finds a study by Akansha Batra, Kaitlyn Jackson, and Rita Hamad.
I am getting a lot of emails from the US Dept of Education in the lead-up to student loan payments resuming. We're about to find out just how catastrophic the student loan default crisis is going to get when a working population thrust into the mass death/disability and immense upward redistribution of wealth that morally bankrupt policy makers decided to make of the COVID pandemic is thrown headlong back into the fire pit of sisyphean debt bondage.
We are excited to share the early news of our new educational program the Open Policy Alliance. This program is aimed at building and supporting a coalition of underrepresented voices from public benefit and charitable foundations.