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When Tia Levings married at 19 years old, she achieved what her Baptist church had endorsed as her life’s highest calling: becoming a Christian wife. But as her husband embraced the teachings of the Christian patriarchy movement, she became governed by a list of rules she hadn’t bargained for. Her husband controlled her clothing, censored her reading list, demanded to be called “my lord” and subjected her to “physical discipline” — all in the name of Christ.
Basing her ideas on the economist Milton Friedman’s critique dating back 70 years that public schools were an illegitimate state-supported monopoly, the author of the Project 2025 chapter on education, Lindsey M Burke, director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, calls for the abolition of the Department of Education. She also calls for the adoption nationwide of education savings accounts that, as is the case in Arizona, allow parents to enrol their children in private school and receive 90% of the funds that would otherwise have been assigned to the public school system.
Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) saw a 50 per cent rise in patients being abandoned over three years, with the 239 cases in 2020 rising to 358 cases in 2023. In the first five months of 2024, around 166 abandoned cases were recorded in HKL, local media reported. Some 50 per cent of the cases involved patients above the age of 60, with the remainder being younger patients with medical complications. A majority of the patients said they did not have relatives, HKL Social Work Department chief Zulhan Ambi told The Star.
Democratic state Rep. Mari Leavitt noted “Hunter Ross, Director of DCYF, should resign. His handling of the movement of folks from Green Hill, lack of support of social workers when confronted with violence, lack of vision of planning for additional juvenile facilties, etc.. There’s a lack of leadership that is needed.” Above: Ross Hunter
Much attention has been paid to the antidemocratic aspects of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a radical playbook for the first 180 days of a new Trump term. But few have focused on its plan to kneecap unions and attack workers’ rights.