Tag: economics
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Big History in South Carolina
Nikki Haley and the American Civil War Nikki Haley (right) and former President Donald Trump during a 2018 meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. | Photo c/o The White House. Frederick Douglass, like anyone worth their salt in nineteenth-century America, loved quoting scripture. Douglass, in his essay “The Union and How to Save It,”…
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Sleeping Rough
The Fear and Loathing of America’s Homeless Precariousness is a feature of the twenty-first century. As of mid-2023, 62% of American adults were living paycheck to paycheck. This says nothing about the spouses or children that also live in these cash-strapped households. We exist in a state of perpetual insecurity that is neither an accident nor…