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TOP NEWS: Disaster for Millions of Kids' Looms as GOP Obstruction Threatens School Meal Programs

 

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June 02, 2022
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Demonstrators urge President Joe Biden to cancel student loan debt
'We're Fighting for Everybody,' Say Former Corinthian Students as Biden Cancels Their Debt
"If we all strike together," said the Debt Collective, "we can cancel $1.7 trillion for 45 million people. Debtors have power."
by Jake Johnson



An elementary school student finishes a meal
'Disaster for Millions of Kids' Looms as GOP Obstruction Threatens School Meal Programs
"There is no reason that children should go hungry in the world's wealthiest nation," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman. "Congress needs to renew the federal school lunch waivers."
by Jake Johnson



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Critics Warn GOP Climate Plan 'Farce' Is Recipe for Planetary Disaster
One campaigner said the Republican strategy—which calls for increasing fossil fuel extraction and exports—"sounds like it was concocted by a comic book supervillain."
by Brett Wilkins
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• Big Oil Accused of Trying to 'Hijack Democracy' With Spending on Local Ordinance Fight
• 'Madness': Ohio GOP Passes Bill to Arm Teachers
• House Dems Say Amazon 'Obstructing' Probe of Warehouse Collapse That Killed Six
• Probe Aimed at Trump-Appointed Social Security IG Who Targeted Poor and People With Disabilities
• Scientists Urge 'Transformative Change' to Stave Off Climate, Biodiversity Collapse
• Civil Rights Groups Demand Google End Complicity in 'Criminalization of Abortions'
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Inspector General, AMA and AHA Agree: Some Medicare Advantage Plans Are Endangering Their Enrollees' Lives
Americans should demand that the government stop rewarding Medicare Advantage plans for denying care inappropriately.
by Diane Archer



Woman mourning gun massacre
Toxic Masculinity, A Root Cause for Mass Shootings
If a mass shooter doesn't have an assault rifle, he can't kill a mass number of people. This is crucial. However, if we want to eliminate this problem altogether, we also need to focus on the deeper reasons of how these killers are created.
by Reagan Ross



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10 Negative Consequences of Boundless US Militarism and Imperialism
By connecting our struggles and building mass movements, we can resist war and all the horrors of broken societies that follow.
by Sam Carliner, Olivia DiNucci


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