The number of mass shootings in the United States has grown considerably in the past few years. In July 2022, the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US, reported at least 314 mass shootings in 2022 alone and more than 22,000 individuals whose lives were cut…
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On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ruling out the constitutional right to abortion. States can now prohibit pregnant women and girls from receiving an abortion, forcing them into involuntary servitude regardless of psychological, social, or economic circumstances. How this decision will impact women’s economic…
In November of 2021, MintPress News’ Alan Macleod uncovered documents exposing $319 million of donations granted by the Gates Foundation to various American and foreign media outlets. The main beneficiaries of these grants include a variety of mainstream, independent, foreign, and domestic outlets such as CNN, PBS, NPR, The Guardian, Le Monde, and…
Reporting by War on Want and The Independent in March 2022 revealed that McDonald’s employed various financial tricks, including a circular IOU transaction, to avoid paying at least 400 million dollars in United Kingdom taxes over ten years. Between November 2016 and July 2017, a McDonald’s subsidiary based in the…
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Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are a form of philanthropy intended to reduce a donor’s tax bill while cultivating their relationship with a charity through donations. However, DAFs have increasingly become a vehicle for wealthy donors to exploit, leaving little room for small donor participation. Extremely wealthy donors game the system by…
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States across the country have issued bans on charity organizations, family members, and other outside groups donating books to prisoners, Alex Skopic reported in a November 2021 article for the online magazine Protean. Bans on book donations not only limit prisoners’ already restricted reading opportunities, but also produce sales and…
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the nation’s leading pediatric cancer research and treatment facilities, promises that, because “families never receive a bill” from St. Jude’s,” “all a family should worry about is helping their child live.” Yet, a November 2021 ProPublica investigation revealed that St. Jude maintains a…
The federal government continues to funnel four times as much funding for roadways as for public transit, a longstanding priority that has deprived the nation’s poorest of basic mobility for decades. In the same time that the urban roadway system has grown by nearly 70 percent, public transportation systems have…
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A November 2021 report by The Progressive revealed that Brian P. Haughton, a former member of multiple racist skinhead bands and a past leader in the neo-Nazi movement, now holds an important counterterrorism position in the Department of Justice. Haughton serves as a law enforcement coordinator for domestic counterterrorism in…
Severe lack of infrastructure contributes to a “digital divide” in many southern states that most impacts rural Black Americans, according to an October 2021 study produced by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. This divide has widened dramatically since the start of the pandemic, providing yet more evidence…
