Read the full text of Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address

February 6, 2019 Donald Trump, News

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Everything the Trump administration hasn’t done to end HIV/AIDS by 2030

February 6, 2019 Donald Trump, News

Donald Trump is expected to unveil a plan in his State of the Union address tonight (Feb. 5) to end the transmission of HIV in the US by 2030.

The goal is realistic, experts say. If Trump is serious about achieving it, though, his administration needs to radically...

Tonight’s State of the Union guests represent a deeply divided America

February 5, 2019 climate-change, Donald Trump, health care, News, planned-parenthood, transgender

President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address tonight is supposed to focus on “unity.”

“We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions and unlock the extraordinary promise of America’s future,” Trump plans...

Will Stacey Abrams avoid the State of the Union response jinx?

February 4, 2019February 5, 2019 Donald Trump, News

Stacey Abrams, a tax attorney and daughter of a Methodist minister, earned a reputation in Georgia’s state legislature as so fair and detail-oriented that political rivals would bring her their bills to troubleshoot for legal issues.

Tonight (Feb. 5), she’ll es...

Cancer drugs are way more expensive in the US than other countries

February 4, 2019 health, medicine, News

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death, just behind heart disease. In 2018, it killed 9.6 million people globally. The same year, there were over 18 million new cases of cancer worldwide, and by 2040, that fi...

Bad UX is keeping hospital prices lists opaque despite new transparency law

January 15, 2019 healthcare, Medicare, medicine, News, US healthcare

Thanks to new US law, we now know the standard price for a cotton ball at the New York Presbyterian Hospital is $1.15. The list price for a skull X-ray at Orlando Health is $695 and NYU Langone’s average charge for a heart transplant is $1,698,831.13.

Unde...

The US government owes federal workers over $5 billion in back pay

January 14, 2019 congress, Democrats, Donald Trump, Government, News, politics, Republicans, United States

The US government shutdown has blown a nearly $5.3 billion ...

Do deficits matter?

January 10, 2019 News

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Rich people are lowering cancer death rates in the US

January 9, 2019 health, inequality, medicine, News

The good news is, over the past quarter of a century, cancer deaths have been on the decline in the US. The bad news is, not everyone benefited equally.

According a report published Tuesday (Jan. 8) by researchers at the Ameri...

In theory, how much could Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 70% tax rate bring in?

January 8, 2019 inequality, News, politics

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