Month: January 2021

An indigenous family-owned business is hoping to expand their reach after creating a hand sanitizer inspired by traditional medicinal plants

Source: Indigenous family creates sweet grass, sage, cedar, sweet tobacco infused hand sanitizers

When Darius Settles died from COVID-19 on the Fourth of July, his family and the city of Nashville, Tenn., were shocked. Even the mayor noted the passing of a 30-year-old without any underlying conditions — one of the city’s youngest fatalities at that point.

Settles was also uninsured and had just been sent home from an emergency room for the second time, and he was worried about medical bills. An investigation into his death found that, like many uninsured COVID-19 patients, he had never been told that cost shouldn’t be a concern.

 

Source: Hospital Bills For Uninsured COVID-19 Patients Are Covered Under The CARES Act : Shots – Health News : NPR

The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all too many Americans. I refer, of course, to the Simpsons. Homer, a high-school graduate whose union job at the nuclear-power plant required little technical skill, supported a family of five. A home, a car, food, regular doctor’s appointments, and enough left over for plenty of beer at the local bar were all attainable on a single working-class salary. Bart might have had to find $1,000 for the family to go to England, but he didn’t have to worry that his parents would lose their home.

Source: The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable – The Atlantic

In the wealthiest country in the world, there’s no reason anyone should be poor. Period.

 

Source: Ending Poverty in the United States Would Actually Be Pretty Easy