âMind Bogglingâ and âDeadly.â This Is the Trump V.A.âs Racist Legacy.
âIt needs to be cleaned up right away,â one employee said. Will Denis McDonough, Bidenâs pick for V.A. secretary, help repair whatâs broken?
By Jasper Craven
Feb. 1, 2021
Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Denis McDonough.Credit.Pool photo by Sarah Silbiger
In May 2014, when retired U.S. Army Medical Service Corps Officer Nuwanna Franklin moved on from the Department of Defense to an administrative position at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Dublin, Ga., she envisioned a few years of rewarding work, and then retirement.
In her new role, Ms. Franklin received formal V.A. plaudits, thank-you notes from patients and other signs of gratitude from employees she advocated for as part of her role in the union. Yet she says the workplace was plagued by a pernicious and oppressive culture of prejudice â an environment in which she felt âyou canât speak up
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America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.
The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.
Column: How Trump cheapened one of America’s highest honors, the Medal of Freedom
This article features our National Security Analyst Irvin McCullough and was originally published here.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
The party of “law and order” just rampaged through the Capitol, bludgeoning a police officer to death and calling for the lynching of the vice president. The party’s leader, President Trump, has pardoned a rogues’ gallery of thieves and murderers. And now, in a last-gasp effort to prove there is nothing that Trump won’t defile, he’s been handing out Medals of Freedom like Chiclets to his unprincipled political acolytes and enablers.