Category: Economics
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Global life expectancy climbs, but preventable deaths remain high Adolescents and young adults are facing risks that earlier generations escaped. In North America and Latin America, deaths among people aged 20 to 39 are increasing. Drugs, alcohol, and suicide are taking more lives each year. Sub-Saharan Africa faces a different struggle, where infectious diseases and unintentional…
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Three Big Thoughts on Social Work
Socialist Workers Unite! I’m a licensed social worker with over 15 years of experience in the field. I’ve worked for schools, school districts, and major non-profit organizations. Volunteered as a mentor to youth, provided food to people experiencing homelessness, delivered meals to the elderly, and built homes for those in need. My clients have included…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
US-led mediators ‘appalled’ by humanitarian crisis in war-torn Sudan The plea for Sudan comes as the US faces global criticism for its support of Israel in the genocidal war on Gaza, which is also facing an Israeli-induced famine. #SudanWar #sudan_war_updates #GazaGenocide #Famine How the US army is using influencers to recruit a new generation: ‘Promise…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The conscience of humanity is being tested in Gaza History is bearing witness to those who took action and to those who turned away from the cruelty in Gaza. Gaza has no time to lose; the international community must heed the voice of the global conscience and act. The future of humanity will be shaped…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
How much aid has made it into Gaza since Israel said it was easing restrictions? Last Sunday, GHF distributed around 1 million meals and at least another 1.2 million from Monday to Wednesday, and 1.3 million on Thursday. GHF did not appear to publish the number of meals distributed on Friday, but on Saturday said…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
“Designed as Death Traps”: Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes As more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed seeking aid at militarized aid distribution sites run by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a former GHF security contractor tells Democracy Now! he saw U.S. mercenaries and Israeli forces commit war crimes…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019, nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made by Generation Z have come true The Icelandic experience demonstrates that rethinking traditional work structures can create more sustainable and humane models that benefit both individuals and society. As more nations consider similar reforms, Iceland’s pioneering approach offers valuable lessons about balancing…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Critics slam Mexico’s gentrification protests as xenophobic. Activists say they’re fighting for their human rights “Not all foreigners gentrify, nor are only those who gentrify foreigners, nor is a significant migration process necessary for gentrification to occur. Gentrification is based on inequalities in such a way that it’s not the same thing,” she added. #MexicoCity…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Words won’t save Gaza – The West must stop enabling Israel’s war Firstly, the UK and its allies must immediately suspend all arms exports and related components to Israel. Current UK measures – suspending just 10 percent of arms licences – are grotesquely inadequate. If the foreign secretary can describe the atrocities being committed by…
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The Rent’s Too Damn High
As a child, I would sit and imagine what life would be like as an adult. For example, things my imagined older self would buy and faraway places I’d travel when I had the funds. All the places I saw on the Discovery Channel and PBS as a kid I wanted to go as an…
