Archive for June 2024

More than 150 bills have been introduced targeting DEI efforts, tenure and the teaching of “divisive concepts,” according to the faculty association.

The Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell got a bit of a surprise this year when Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), the Banking Committee chair, launched into his opening statement. “The biggest corporations are always finding new ways to charge people more to increase their profits,” Brown said. “Fast-food restaurants and big stores are experimenting with electronic price tags, so they can change prices constantly, making it easier to sneak prices up little by little.” He called for legislative measures “to take on corporate price-gouging,” which, he argued, had “nothing to do with higher interest rates.”

Two of the groups involved, Feeding Our Future and Partners in Nutrition, were small nonprofits before the pandemic, but in 2021 they disbursed around $200 million each. Prosecutors allege they produced invoices for meals that were never served, ran shell companies, laundered money, indulged in passport fraud and accepted kickbacks.

Studying social work at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) is a profound and inspiring journey. The programme gives me the opportunity to acquire high-quality academic knowledge as well as to develop skills and understanding of the social field.

Dorling sees nostalgia as a key rhetorical element used to add credence to the stories we are told, and tell ourselves, about a nation which by all objective metrics has severely lost its way. The book goes on to shatter many of the remaining illusions we may still hold about life in the UK.