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Do you believe Trump would have handled this conflict any better?

Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart are trapping workers in poverty, UN poverty expert says ( web.archive.org )

"I am extremely disturbed that workers in some of the world’s most profitable companies – in one of the richest countries on earth – are struggling to afford to eat or pay their rent,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights....

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In Seattle a paper found out that the police department supported defunding (moving certain responsibilities and their associated funds to civilian authorities)… but once people called for the same they started a massive campaign against it.

realchangenews.org/…/derailing-defund-how-spd-man…

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I wish he would have just broken his nose.

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My son is in his senior year of high school. Every day our mailbox has at least 1 glossy brochure from a college. The other day Yale sent a 100 page one. He’s probably going to study in Europe :p

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There’s an opioid shortage too and for the same apparent reason: the federal government setting limits on manufacturers.

I don’t know much about the opioid shortage, but for Adderall it seems to be more complicated than just the quotas… bloomberg.com/…/are-adderall-dea-quotas-contribut…

If a manufacturer asks for an increased quota and the DEA denies it, they have to do so publicly, with a notice. Guess what, no notices.

Another source:

Shortages, particularly of generic drugs, have been a longstanding problem. The industry has consolidated and some manufacturers have little incentive to solve shortages because cheap generics generate thin profits.

livemint.com/…/whats-behind-shortages-of-adderall…

And another painnewsnetwork.org/…/fda-and-dea-leaders-call-fo…

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