TMcDermott

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Many years in aid and development, often in conflict and post-conflict countries. Now the chief editor of XUNICEF News & Views.
TMcDermottDec 18, 2023
With 19,000 dead, schools, mosques, hospitals destroyed, the madness continues. This from the website of the Catholic Church in Jerusalem.
TMcDermottApr 30, 2023
The work of Republican super majority state legislatures in weakening child labor laws are just one of several moves to undermine human rights and federal law. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
April 28, 2023

According to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, legislatures in at least ten states have set out to weaken federal child labor laws. In the first three months of 2023, legislators in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and South Dakota introduced bills to weaken the regulations that protect children in the workplace, and in March, Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law repealing restrictions for workers younger than 16.

Letters from an American
TMcDermottFeb 17, 2023
The requirement that physicians obtain the so called X-waiver meant that a mere 5% of doctors were able to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid addictions, and in large parts of the country none were. The X waiver requirement is now gone. A big story, too little known, especially by those who most need to know. - STAT https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/14/x-waiver-buprenorphine-prescribing-gone-spread-the-word/
The X-waiver for buprenorphine prescribing is gone. It's time to spread the word

Communicating major public health milestones, like removing the X waiver for prescribing buprenorphine, is a prerequisite to seeing changes in public health.

STAT
TMcDermottJan 18, 2023
Big news for world health, if this offer is fulfilled. Holding my breath to see if other pharma companies will follow. #Pfizer #WorldHealthOrganization
http://bit.ly/3XkA0AY
Pfizer Offers Up Entire Drug And Vaccine Portfolio To World’s Poorest Countries At Non-Profit Prices

The announcement will cover some 1.2 billion people living in 45 low-income countries.

Forbes
TMcDermottJan 16, 2023
#MLKDay Will this prophet be heard?
Recalling the editorial in America Magazine on April 20, 1968 http://bit.ly/3QHuNAL
Will this prophet be heard? America’s editors on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Vantage Point April 20, 1968: The editors on the death and dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.

America Magazine
TMcDermottDec 28, 2022
Unfortunately, the problem is much wider than three multi billionaires. Congress needs to once and for all end the concept of "permanent tax cuts", especially at the higher end of the scale. We also need to begin taxing wealth and not just income.
TMcDermottDec 22, 2022
Bedded the car down for what will likely be a super frigid night. Socks on the wiper blades, de-icer sprayed on windshield. Now snug at home sipping apple brandy. #joinin