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By Michelle Black Less than 20% of U.S. employer businesses are minority-owned, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Yet the owners of these 1.1 million minority-owned businesses often face heightened challenges when it comes to securing business funding. In fact, Black entrepreneurs were three times less likely to apply for credit out of fear of loan denial, according to a paper by Duke…

Moving offices is an exciting but challenging time for any company. While it signals growth, positive change and new beginnings, it also requires …How Do I Tell My Employees We’re Moving Offices?

Metta Letter by cjrobson

We all aspire to be more loving, to have more compassion and goodwill for all humanity. It is actually a really easy thing to declare that we have love for all people, that we wish everyone well.

Of course the difficulty comes when we move from the general to the specific. We can claim to love all the children of the world, yet harbor angry thoughts for the…

Don’t just sit there, do something

Since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, there has been a resurgence of state-sponsored voter suppression that is targeting communities of color “with almost surgical precision.” Already this year, states have purged their voter rolls, blocked rights restoration efforts, slashed polling place numbers, restricted early voting, allowed discriminatory voter ID laws and…

The Rush Back to School

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Published on July 13, 2020

by Kayla Ulrich

As is seen all over the headlines, there’s a rush to get students and teachers back to school. We say come the fall but the reality is most schools go back over summer. This is the same summer that has shown significant spikes in Covid-19 cases and increased death rates of all ages. The worsening of this…

We Need Herd Immunity From Trump and the Coronavirus

It will take more care than the president is currently demonstrating to loosen restrictions but still protect the vulnerable.

By Thomas L. Friedman

President Trump at the White House coronavirus briefing on Thursday.Credit…Al Drago for The New York Times

With each passing day it becomes more obvious how unlucky we are that one of the worst crises in American history…

Did Trump Suggest Injecting Disinfectants as COVID-19 Treatment?

The U.S. president’s comments prompted doctors and the makers of household disinfectants to issue statements urging people not to ingest or inject cleaning products.

DAN EVON

PUBLISHED 24 APRIL 2020

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U.S. President Donald Trump suggested during a White House briefing that injecting disinfectants could treat COVID-19.

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It’s a weird time we’re living through, when a trip the grocery store is about our only opportunity to go someplace different than hour house, and every grocery trip feels a bit like entering the arena of The Hunger Games.

Our grocery store workers are certainly underpaid heroes of the coronavirus era. Every day, they go to work to make sure we all have food to eat, putting their own health…

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A new pay subscription based youtube channel is exactly what you need! Wy does this offer more & better than others?

The Story Teller is a way to escape into the other worldly horizon of what if…as well as love & real life stories of today.

It’s a collection of short stories, novellas, novel chapters, & poetry from some very talented visually impaired & blind writers.

Every…

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.

Joan Wong

Story by Ed Yong

Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here.

Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country,…

Left-leaning critics of U.S. President Donald Trump rejected his claims to overseeing unprecedented economic growth in early 2020. Who was right?

by DAN MACGUILL

Image via Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Origin

In February 2020, we received multiple inquiries from readers about the veracity of social media posts and news articles which claimed that the U.S. economy had added 1.5 million more jobs during former President Barack Obama’s final three years in office, than it did during President Donald Trump’s first three…

The issue for boomers won’t be ‘aging in place’ The real question will be, ‘How do I get out of this place?’

LLOYD ALTER

You can only do this for so long. (Photo: Mick Tinbergen/Wikimedia Commons)

The oldest baby boomers have just turned 70, and most can drive to their birthday parties. They’re being followed by 70 million other boomers, all happily motoring along. Their parents? Not so good these days. Janet Morrissey of The New York Times looks at the issue of transportation…

They’re Not Stupid, and They’re Not Spineless. They’re Evil. Let’s Keep That Straight.

Attribution: The gravedigger of American democracy, center. They’re Not Stupid, and They’re Not Spineless. They’re Evil. Let’s Keep That Straight.

In reading comments left on various social media forums, one often sees Republican politicians described as “stupid”, “clownish”, “ignorant”, “spineless”, “cowards”, “gutless” and the like. We see them ridiculed for believing in conspiracy…

Michael Bloomberg’s presidential run could be part of a strategy to pay the cheapest rates possible to air anti-Trump ads

by Grace Panetta

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Associated Press

After weeks of speculation, the billionaire philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially announced he was jumping into the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential-primary field.

Bloomberg is capitalizing on his estimated $52 billion net worth to run a highly unusual…

Even If Netanyahu Is Done, His Damage to Israel Will Linger for Years

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairing the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem on Nov. 3, 2019. BY AYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN  Gundar-Goshen is the winner of the JQ-Wingate Prize for Waking Lions. She is a clinical psychologist, has worked for the Israeli civil rights movement, and is an award-winning screenwriter. Her new novel is The…

Trump accuses Democrats of seeking to obliterate Medicare

 ‘Great healthcare for you’ reads the backdrop as President Trump delivers remarks on Medicare at a performing-arts center in The Villages, Fla.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday accused Democrats of an all-out attempt to “totally obliterate Medicare” and portrayed himself as the program’s defender as he took steps to expand Medicare’s private insurance option.

But no…