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2 days ago

Why small farmers can’t fix our hunger problem

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Big farmers grab the lion’s share of US government support, and recent cuts have chipped away at small growers’ markets and margins

The most significant food system failure since the pandemic was not …

9 days ago

Five Economic Reasons to be Thankful ⊖

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a story from Calculated Risk › Calculated Risk

Here are five economic reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving. (Hat Tip to Neil Irwin who started doing this years ago)

1) The Unemployment Rate is at 4.4%

The unemployment rate was at 4.4% in Se…

43 days ago

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

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Two decades ago, Sara Carlson, then a mother of three, was newly…

53 days ago

2007: The Trillion Dollar Bear ⊖

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a story from Calculated Risk › Calculated Risk

Note: CR is on vacation, and I will return on October 21st.

In December 2007, most analysts were still dramitically underestimating the probably losses for lenders and financial institutions.

Here …

54 days ago

3 months ago

Black spaces of the Great Depression: scenes of African American life in the 1930s – in pictures

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Depictions of rural life in the south during the Great Depression have been predominantly focused on whiteness, a fuller picture rarely seen. In a new exhibition, the private homes and public gatheri…

4 months ago

Superman review – is it a bust? Is it a pain? James Gunn’s dim reboot is both

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The Man of Steel – played with square-faced soullessness by David Corenswet – has an uninteresting crisis of confidence in Gunn’s cluttered, pointless franchise restarter

Here is a film occupying the …

6 months ago

From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort | Simon Jenkins

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Keir Starmer is not blameless when it comes to Brexit, but he is moving in the right direction. Even the Tories attacking him know that

For the Tories to attack Keir Starmer’s first step towards a Bre…

Joe Don Baker, tough-guy actor from Walking Tall and Bond films, dies aged 89

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The prolific performer played varied roles – from arms dealer to baseball star – and made the rare switch from Bond villain to Bond good guy

Tough-guy actor Joe Don Baker, a prolific performer in movi…

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