Memo to the Fed: Stop raising interest rates.
Inflation is slowing.
To continue punishing workers by increasing rates to drive unemployment, especially when America’s safety nets are in tatters, is just plain cruel.
The extremist right, which now totally controls the Republican Party, is on the offensive everywhere -- curbing women's healthcare, censoring books, banning dissent, encouraging violence, flaunting racism, rigging the election system, and ultimately threatening democracy.
Journalism is covering all of this piecemeal -- noting the individual brush fires but never, ever warning the public that the entire forest is ablaze.
Journalistic business as usual is malpractice.
And time is short.
RT @rbreich
Conservatives say we can’t bring up gun control after a mass shooting.
But if we have to wait for a time when there isn’t a mass shooting to talk about gun control, we will literally always be waiting.
Only in America do we refuse to act.