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“What I’m working on like making sure students have access to food, clean clothing, and streetlights may not look like what I’m working on,” Catherine Gilmore told me over a phone call. Gilmore has worked as an educator in Hillsborough County, Florida, for 13 years, and has spent the last six years at Gibsonton Elementary School where […]
Guest Commentary In an especially informative and troubling analysis, Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton (the latter a Nobel Prize recipient), state the United States has been suffering from an epidemic of “deaths of despair.” These fatalities are caused by drug overdose, alcoholic liver diseases and suicide. The increased mortality rate resulting from these deaths starting in the mid 1990s has been so pronounced that life expectancy at birth decreased in this country from 2015 to 2017, the first such decline since the influenza pandemic at the end of World War I in 1918. Drug overdoses are the most prevalent deaths of despair. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1999 to 2017 more than 702,000 Americans died from a drug overdose; 477,000 (68%) of those deaths involved a prescription or illegal opioid. Angus and Deaton note that in 2007 alone there were 158,000 deaths of despair, the equivalent of three fully loaded Boeing 737 je
Biden seeks to end costly war in Afghanistan
By Daniel Savickas - Contributing columnist
Later this year, America will mark the 20-year anniversary of its invasion of Afghanistan. Last week, President Joe Biden announced he will move to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by mid-September. Even a cursory analysis of the human cost of this war and the cost to the American taxpayer shows that this is a prudent move by the administration. President Biden should stay firm and resist the critics calling for further delays of this long overdue move.
According to official statistics given by the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. has spent $822 billion on its occupation of Afghanistan since October 2001. However, this already lofty figure represents only money spent directly in Afghanistan. It does not count money spent on forces and bases in neighboring Pakistan used to conduct operations in Afgha